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Primitive

Accumulation

The Rise of Modern Science and Technology

conquests and robbery with the help of superior technology as most simple forms of primitive accumulation

  • strongly connected with warfare
  • often involved destruction of nature

"As the housewife is linked to the wage-earning breadwinner, to the 'free' proletarian as a non-free worker, the 'freedom' of the proletarian to sell his labour power is based on the non-freedom of the housewife. Proletarianization of men is based on the housewifization of women." (Maria Mies)

Primitive Accumulation

Housewifization

"The torture chambers of the witch-hunters were the laboratories where the texture, the anatomy, the resistance of the human body - mainly the female body - was studied. One may say that modern medicine and the male hegemony over this vital field were established on the basis of millions of crushed, maimed, torn, disfigured and finally burnt, female bodies." (Maria Mies)

domestication of women in order to:

  • produce more laborers
  • increase consumption
  • disunite proletarians

"the historical process of divorcing the producer from the means of production" (Marx)

Witch Hunts

"[The witch trials] were a new alchemy which made gold out of human blood." (Cornelius Laos, catholic cleric)

12th-17th century

"Without colonies no security regarding the acquisition of raw materials, without raw materials no industry, without industry no adequate standard of living and wealth. Therefore, Germans, do we need colonies." (Paul von Hindenburg, future Reich Chancellor)

+ enslavement (gain in laborers)

"While one set of women was treated as pure labour force, a source of energy, the other set of women was treated as 'non-productive' breeders only." (Maria Mies)

  • establishment of male dominance in medicine
  • control of women
  • gain in laborers through destruction of knowledge about contraception and abortion
  • creating income through confiscation of property, "donations"

Colonialization

Mies, Maria (1986): Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale. Women in the International Division of Labor. London: Zed Books.

Chapter 3: Colonization and Housewifization

Federici, Silvia (2004): Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia. 21-60.

Marx, Karl: Capital Vol. 1, “The Secret of Primitive Accumulation.”

"Both [witches and colonialized peoples] were defined as uncontrolled, dangerous, savage 'nature', and both have to be subdued to force and torture to break their resistance to robbery, expropriation and exploitation." (Maria Mies)

as god-given mission of the Europeans to "civilize" PoC:

  • destruction of female independence
  • dissemination of sexism and militarism among men

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