Democracy and Class Struggle was despairing of the lack of real historians like Christopher Hill and EP Thompson in British Isles - until we discovered this young philosopher historian called Olly.
The Great Caliban The Struggle Against the Rebel Body
http://www.commoner.org.uk/03federici.pdf
FROM WITCH BURNING'S TO LYNCHINGS
In the current era of uncontrolled ‘market forces' as preached by the present government and other supporters of neo-liberalism, confiscating land and other forms of property has taken on a more sinister dimension.
It has been noted that witchcraft accusations and cleansing rituals are particularly rife in areas earmarked for game management and game ranching, for tourism, and for occupation by potential big landowners…
Some chiefs and headmen profit from selling considerable portions of their domain to international investors, and fomenting social disruption in the village facilitates the transaction.
A divided village will not have the power to unite and oppose attempts to having the land they cultivate being taken over by someone else.
s a matter of fact, the villagers are at times, so engaged in accusing each other of practicing witchcraft that they hardly notice that they are being dispossessed and they have turned into squatters on their own ancestral lands.
(Hinfelaar 2007: 238)
http://www.commoner.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/federici_witch-hunt.pdf
SEE ALSO
WITCHES - PIRATES AND SMUGGLERS
http://www.brh.org.uk/brhw2007/witches3.html
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