[MR] interview: "Capitalism and the Witch Hunts"

[Eli Damon]

Yesterday, the radio show "Against the Grain" featured an interview 
with historian Sylvia Federici. The show's web site gives the 
following synopsis: 

"According to Sylvia Federici, the European witch hunts of the 
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, rather than being products of 
medieval superstition, constituted an effort to impose an emerging 
capitalist logic on unruly populations. Federici contends, among 
other things, that women's power had to be destroyed in order for 
capitalism to develop."

If you are interested, a recording of the interview is at the 
following URL:

http://againstthegrain.org/files/atg/AtG_2009.01.21_Capitalism_and_Wit
ch_Hunts.mp3

Eli


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