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Understanding the witch trials is a vital part of understanding the rise of capitalism, the family, women's roles and our relation to our bodies. Their deep importance and impact is too often neglected in even radical histories. This brief overview looks at the reasons for, and effects of, the massacre of women that took place during the rise of capitalism.
As phrased so well by Past Tense, the original publishers of this essay: "We re-issue this text in a new edition as a beginning step to understanding the significance of the witch trials. We undertake this not as a matter for mere study or as a historical curiosity: by tracing the threads of modern hierarchies and alienations to their relative origins we aspire to open up invigorating new terrains for discussion, action, regeneration of our own powers, and contestation in any of a variety of creative expressions. This piece serves to whet the appetite for deeper explanations of where we are, and how we came to be here. A fruitful reading may explode your notions of the possible.":
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