Silvia Federici

Originally published in Midnight Notes, #10,1990 and republished by The Commoner www.thecommoner.org

A text from the first wave of Italian ‘autonomist Marxist’ theory, first published under the name Guido Baldi in Radical America (Vol. 6, No. 3, May-June 1972).

Warfare has significantly changed in the last thirty years. From 1945 until about 1975 most wars were
part of the worldwide movement of decolonisation that saw the formation of dozens of new states in
Africa and Asia. Since then most wars have been civil wars within the decolonised countries, sometimes

WAR, GLOBALIZATION AND REPRODUCTION
Silvia Federici