As the history of class struggle demonstrates,...

"As the history of class struggle demonstrates, privileging one sector of the working class over others is the surest road to defeat. Undoubtedly, certain types of workers have played a crucial role in certain historical phases of capitalist development. But the working class has paid a very high price to a revolutionary logic that established hierarchies of revolutionary subjects, patterned on the hierarchies of the capitalist organization of work. Marxist/socialist activists in Europe lost sight of the revolutionary power of the world’s ‘peasantry.’ More than that, peasant movements have been destroyed (see the case of the ELAS in Greece) by communists who considered only the factory worker as organizable and ‘truly revolutionary.’ Socialists/marxists also lost sight of the immense (house) work that was being done to produce and reproduce industrial workers. The huge ‘iceberg’ of labour in capitalism (to use Maria Mies’ metaphor) was made invisible by the tendency to look at the tip of the iceberg, industrial labour, while the labour involved in the reproduction of labour-power went unseen, with the result that the feminist movement was often fought against and seen as something outside the class struggle."

George Caffentzis & Sylvia Federici, “Notes on the Edu-Factory and Cognitive Capitalism,” in Toward a Global Autonomous University (p. 128). (via mandescending)

(Source: mirrortheories)

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