Red Emma’s

Tonight, we could not be more thrilled to welcome two of our favorite Autonomist Marxists, George Caffentzis and Sylvia Federici!  George will present his latest work, In Letters of Blood and Fire: Work, Machines, and Value (PM Press, 2013) a collection of essays that draw upon a careful reading of Marx's thought to elucidate political concerns encompassing twenty-first-century capitalism, information technology, immaterial production, financialization, and globalization.  Emphasizing class struggles that have proliferated across the social body of global capitalism, Caffentzis shows how a wide range of conflicts and antagonisms in the labor-capital relation express themselves within and against the work process.  

Sylvia Federici's Revolution at Point Zero (PM Press, 2012) collects forty years of research and theorizing on the nature of housework, social reproduction, and women’s struggles on this terrain—to escape it, to better its conditions, to reconstruct it in ways that provide an alternative to capitalist relations.  Indeed, as Federici reveals, behind the capitalist organization of work and the contradictions inherent in “alienated labor” is an explosive ground zero for revolutionary practice upon which are decided the daily realities of our collective reproduction. Beginning with Federici’s organizational work in the Wages for Housework movement, the essays collected here unravel the power and politics of wide but related issues including the international restructuring of reproductive work and its effects on the sexual division of labor, the globalization of care work and sex work, the crisis of elder care, the development of affective labor, and the politics of the commons.

Please join us in welcoming George and Sylvia for their first appearance at the new space!