The nature of the crisisIn 1980, issue 20 of Sorcières, les femmes vivents published 6 pages by Françoise. She summarizes her long work to flush out the root causes of our aberrations. The passage of time only strengthens her pen and, despite anthropological reminders that can sometimes be dated, she gets to the point in the last two dazzling pages.
““To attack Capital is only to attack the point of the weapon which wounds us and tears us apart; the handle of the weapon plunges into the mists of time, it is called patriarchy, it is called male civilization with a universal pattern (…) Maintaining the industrial age (…) means the end of the terrestrial world in thirty to fifty years. We cannot go beyond that age while maintaining a profit system. We cannot abolish this system of profit by preserving a society of classes, namely a need for power. We cannot abolish power by preserving the patriarchal and masculine world. C.Q.F.D. The future of the species is in our hands.”
Françoise d’Eaubonne