Da crítica da economia política em Marx à caça às bruxas em Federici: uma interlocução crítica

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze how Federici appropriates Marxist categories: primitive accumulation, value of labor power and overexploitation of labor power in her work “Caliban and the Witch”. In the aforementioned work, the author says she distances herself from Marx by placing the witch hunt at the center of the process of primitive accumulation. The author’s statements about the forgotten history of women, the loss of social power in the face of the advent of capitalism and the role of women in the reproduction of the labor force are extremely relevant. However, it is noted that there is a tendency for the author to shift the hierarchy of important categories to Marxism, which can generate inadequate interpretations in readers.