As we delve deepter into Silvia Federici's 'Caliban and the Witch', we learn about the origins of the banning of reproductive sex and the demonisation of homosexuality, how women were pushed out of the workforce, the environment of acceptance around violence on the bodies of women, the attacks on women's intergenerational knowledge, elite magicians of the bourgeoisie, how class war and not enlightenment caused the end of the witch trials, links between Nazism and the witch-hunts and an overview of Malthusianism. Join us for our episode on chapter 4 of Caliban and the Witch - 'The Great Witch-Hunt in Europe' for insight into all these topics and more. This episode is part of our series on Marxist-feminists. As Mao and Thomas Sankara have said, “Women hold up the other half of the sky.” Red Book Club recognizes that including the voices of nonmen in our studies is not a niche activity, but is in fact an essential step in gaining themost comprehensive view of the material conditions ...