The Guardian romanticizes women's escape into witchcraft retreats, masking a harsher truth: capitalism has fragmented community, only to sell facsimiles of it back to the lonely. Beneath the rituals of sisterhood lies a commodified search for healing, where pain is packaged as a wellness experience for those who can afford it. This article stirs empathy but shies away from confronting the systemic forces that produced these wounds. Women are not merely seeking solace; they are expressing anger born from societal oppression. The challenge is to transition from commodified refuge to collective action, turning shared grief into political power.
Capital vs. the Commons: The War on Women, Land, and the World Proletariat
This Weaponized Intellects review of Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici excavates how capitalism emerged not as progress, but as a counter-revolution forged through land theft, colonial conquest, and the violent subjugation of women’s bodies. It traces the medieval struggles of peasants, workers, and heretics to show that another world was not only imagined—but... Continue Reading →