Where would you point to a beginner in learning more about how capitalism truly started, feminism, iimperialism, antiblackness, and how people go about sex and taboo kinks? Sorry if these are very broad n all, but these are topics that interest me the most, and I would like to learn more about them instead of having very surface level thoughts on it, i would be more specific with what i want to learn, but I'll be here all day if I explained lol, ty for answering if you do
You’re probably going to be wanting to look into the ties between commerce, kinship systems, and law to develop a more comprehensive sense of these things and a more historically grounded concept of racism, gender, and class struggle. I’ll try and recommend a (mostly) chronologically ordered group of texts that can give you the basics.
Overall theoretical framework:
The Combahee River Collective Statement
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations by Karl Marx
Development of domination:
Pathology of Patriarchy by Sanyika Shakur
A People’s History of Civilization by John Zerzan
Myths of Male Dominance by Eleanor Burke Leacock
The Metamorphoses of Kinship by Maurice Godelier
Slavery and Social Death by Orlando Patterson
The history of Western civilization:
Savage Anxieties: The Invention of Western Civilization by Robert A. Williams Jr.
The Early Growth of the European Economy by Georges Duby
Law and the Rise of Capitalism by Michael Tigar
Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany by Lyndal Roper
The Making of New World Slavery: From Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800 by Robert Blackburn
Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire
Columbus and Other Cannibals by Jack D. Forbes
Americanity as a Concept, or the Americas in the Modern World-System by Aníbal Quijano and Immanuel Wallerstein
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Truth/Power/Freedom by Sylvia Wynter
How to re-theorize class struggle:
The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic by Peter Limbaugh and Marcus Rediker
The Secret History of Gender: Women, Men, and Power in Late Colonial Mexico by Steve J. Stern
Women, Race and Class by Angela Davis
Scenes of Subjection by Saidiya Hartman
The Wages of Whiteness by David Roediger
What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America by Peggy Pascoe
The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America by Michael Taussig
Ch'ixinakax utxiwa: On Decolonising Practices and Discourses by Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
Family, Welfare, and the State: Between Progressivism and the New Deal by Mariarosa Dalla Costa
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
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