Silvia Federici Quotes

born 1942 Italy

Silvia Federici (born 1942, Parma, Italy) is an Italian and American scholar, teacher, and activist from the radical autonomist feminist Marxist tradition.

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All meaning is necessarily teleological in character and historically rooted in the concrete operations of human subjects.

Viet Cong Philosophy: Tran Duc Thao (1970)

Indeed, the Europe that was preparing to become a Promethean world-mover, presumably taking humankind to new technological and cultural heights, was a place where people never had enough to eat.

Caliban and the Witch (2004)

The abstract categories of imperialism are neither exempt from the need of a foundation, nor will the fact that they are coextensive with ordinary discourse provide them with the needed foundation.

Viet Cong Philosophy: Tran Duc Thao (1970)

They say it is love. We say it is unwaged work. They call it frigidity. We call it absenteeism. Every miscarriage is a work accident.

Wages against Housework (1975)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Silvia Federici (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.