“Housework was transformed into a natural attribute, rather than being recognized as work, because it was destined to be unwaged. Capital had to convince us that it is a natural, unavoidable, and even fulfilling activity to make us accept working without a wage. In turn, the unwaged condition of housework has been the most powerful weapon in reinforcing the common assumption that housework is not work, thus preventing women from struggling against it, except in the privatized kitchen-bedroom quarrel that all society agrees to ridicule, thereby further reducing the protagonist of a struggle. We are seen as nagging bitches, not as workers in struggle.”
― Silvia Federici, Wages Against Housework

November 24th marks the first meeting and introduction to Silvia Federici’s Caliban and the Witch, a Marxist-feminist examination of the exploitation of labor deemed domestic and reproductive. Presented by Houston DSA’s Political Education Working Group, we hope you will join us in Federici’s analysis and untangling how the resistances of imperial witch hunts of history have shaped the fights for reproductive rights, socialized medicine, and reproductive power.

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