December 12, 2017: Witches, Land & Family

It is not a coincidence that the witch hunt and the social-economic crisis of superinflation occurred simultaneously during the transition to capitalism and private property. Scholar Henry Kamen  write that it was “precisely in the period when there was the…

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December 1, 2017: Caliban & the Witch

Today, the CoLAB gathered for the last time in 2017. We talked through Sylvia Federici’s Caliban and the Witch.  “Indeed, the political lesson that we can learn from The Caliban and the Witch is that capitalism, as a social-economic system, is necessarily committed to…

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