»Feminist movement cannot put forward a perspective of social change without addressing the question of class«. Wages for Housework Campaign, witch-hunting today and feminist politics of the commons

Abstract In the interview with feministische studien , Silvia Federici reflects on the development of feminist class analysis since the 1970s. She emphasizes that feminist movements cannot pursue social transformations without addressing class relations, as capitalist exploitation is organized through gendered and racialized divisions of labor. Referring to the International Wages for Housework Campaign she helped to initiate, Federici shows that the demand for wages was a political strategy to make reproductive work visible as central to capitalist accumulation. The campaign aimed to reorder power relations between women, men, and capital. Today, Federici promotes a wider concept of reproductive work that includes education, health, food sovereignty, and ecological resources. In her theory of the commons, Federici develops collective forms of social reproduction and analyzes phenomena such as migration regimes, witch-hunts, and the commodification of care as continuations of capitalist dispossession.