uranianmenace's review against another edition
4.0
In my opinion, "Family, Welfare, and the State" that takes the autonomist feminist critique first outlined in [b:Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation|403846|Caliban and the Witch Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation|Silvia Federici|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1344937010l/403846._SX50_.jpg|393224] and turns it towards Keynesian Economics, Social Democracy, and the Liberal State through an examination of the New Deal and the Great Depression. The book reads as kind of racist in some parts (the italian was written in 1983) but I think that some of the racism comes from the translation and not Dalla Costa herself.
This book presents a critique of social democracy centered around Women and The Family and it was a refreshing take compared to the go-to critique of social democracy being one of anti-imperialism.
It would help if the reader has read Caliban and the Witch, at least, and understand's the autonomist analysis found in Tronti's Workers and Capital.
I would recommed this book to any marxist feminist, but I do not think that the general left will internalize the arguments outlined in the book itself as it reads more like history than theory -- which is the beauty of it.
This book presents a critique of social democracy centered around Women and The Family and it was a refreshing take compared to the go-to critique of social democracy being one of anti-imperialism.
It would help if the reader has read Caliban and the Witch, at least, and understand's the autonomist analysis found in Tronti's Workers and Capital.
I would recommed this book to any marxist feminist, but I do not think that the general left will internalize the arguments outlined in the book itself as it reads more like history than theory -- which is the beauty of it.
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