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Caliban and the witch book5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Of course, he’ll need workers for his factory, and he needs them to show up on time, to have certain skills and knowledge, and most of all to have a certain work ethic. To understand this process, consider what happens when an American or English businessman decides he wants to set up a factory in an “undeveloped” village in Africa. As a class, however, they functioned not just as an economic force but also a social force, changing society and the way we see ourselves and each other. The word itself means “city dweller,” but it refers to the capitalist class: those who own the means of production and exploit the labor of others in order to profit. To understand this chapter well, remember that one of the core beliefs of Marxism is that a new class of people - the bourgeoisie - birthed capitalism into the world. ![]() “To pose the body as mechanical matter, void of any intrinsic teleology - the "occult virtues" attributed to it by both Natural Magic and the popular superstitions of the time - was to make intelligible the possibility of subordinating it to a work process that increasingly relied on uniform and predictable forms of behavior.” “We can see, in other words, that the human body and not the steam engine, and not even the clock, was the first machine developed by capitalism.” ![]()
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