2026-03-12.2_S Federici - joyful militancy

“The principle of joyful militancy is that either our politics are liberating, either they change our life in a way that is positive, that make us grow, give us joy, or there’s something wrong with them.”

“Doing political work must be healing. It must give us strength, vision, enhance our sense of solidarity, and make us realize our interdependence. Being able to politicize our pain, turn it into a source of knowledge, into a source of knowledge, into something that connects us to other people – all of this has a healing power.”

“I believe that the radical Left has often failed to attract people because it does not pay attention to the reproductive side of political work – the dinners together, the songs that strengthen our sense of being a collective subject, the affective relations we develop among each other.”

• Silvia Federici, Beyond the Periphery of the Skin, pg.125-126

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