Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

we cannot, therefore, identify capitalist accumulation with the liberation of the worker, female or male, as many Marxists (among others) have done, or see the advent of capitalism as a moment of historical progress… capitalism has created more brutal and insidious forms of enslavement, as it is planted into the body of the proletariat deep divisions that have served to intensify and conceal exploitation.

—Silvia Federici