Blood and Fire: Silvia Federici on the Crisis of Capitalism

Blood and Fire: Silvia Federici on the Crisis of Capitalism (Arnold Bode 8, 0113/0114)

In her lecture, Jeta Mulaj (Toronto Metropolitan University) will examine the analysis of crisis in Silvia Federici's philosophy. She will show that Federici's understanding of crisis contains two interrelated components: a historical approach and an understanding of crisis as a persistent phenomenon inherent to capitalist society. Mulaj shows why, according to Federici, crisis becomes a normal state exclusively in capitalist society. The rediscovery of Federici's understanding of the ongoing capitalist crisis highlights the need to advocate a radical transformation of the material conditions of our reproduction and to show the destructive consequences that the constant repetition of primitive accumulation means for humans and nature.