Review of 'Witchhunting Past And Present And The Fear Of The Power Of Women Hexenjagd Vergangenheit Und Gegenwart Und Die Angst Vor Der Macht Der Frauen' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Aaaaah, let's make a revolution!
"A precondition for the development of capitalism was the destruction of the magical conception of the body that had prevailed in the Middle Ages, which attributed to it powers that the capitalist class could not exploit and seemed incompatible with the transformation of the laborer into a work machine. These were the power to fly, read the future, take animal forms, come back from the grave to take revenge, and above all, control the elements of nature."