anti – death penalty movement in the 1990s. After teaching and researching at University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria from 1984 to 1986, she was active in the anti-globalization movement and the U.S. I n 1967, Federici came to the United States to study for a PhD in philosophy at the University of Buffalo. “The roots of my feminism lie primarily in my experience as a woman growing up in a repressive society, as Italy was in the ‘50s: anti-communist, patriarchal, Catholic, and weighed down by war.” ― Silvia Federici Is an Italian feminist theorist, activist, teacher and scholar with a radical autonomist feminist Marxist and anarchist background. Federici is best known for developing a new political subjectivity and strategy that works to make visible women’s domestic and reproductive labor as the foundation of capitalism. “Silvia Federici’s work embodies an energy that urges us to rejuvenate struggles against all types of exploitation and, precisely for that reason, her work produces a common: a common sense of the dissidence that creates a community in struggle.” - Maria Mies
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