“But if we apply to the present the lessons of the past, we realize that the reappearance of witch-hunting in so many parts of the world in the (19)’80s and (19)’90s is a clear sign of a process of primitive accumulation," which means that the privatization of land and other communal resources, mass impoverishment, plunder, and the sowing of divisions in once-cohesive communities are again on the world agenda.”
― Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch