How were we transformed from humans into machines? In this third installement of Silvia Federici's 'Caliban and the Witch' we discuss 'Chapter 3 - The Great Caliban: The Struggle Against The Rebel Body' and learn about the origins of the mechanisation of the workforce, the new social conceptualisation of the body, magical corpses, the philosophical battle between Descartes and Hobbes and the introduction of shame of the body. This episode is part of our series on Marxist feminists. As Mao 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 of the past andpresent as we possibly can; so we’ve planned this series to amplify the ideas that nonmen have been bringing to the conversation forcenturies.From Federici’s analysis of women as a means of primitive accumulationto Luxemburg’s essay of...