ommon, commons, commons, communal... the denominations vary, but all of them point to forms of property, use and exploitation of resources, life and the planet that do not go through merchandise or the State. In this book, Silvia Federici explores the notion of the common. She directs our gaze towards the great expropriation, still in progress, which supposes the endless imposition of capitalism. The commons, the forms of community organization of human ecosystems, have existed since the first societies were formed. And the commons have been the priority object of successive rounds of robbery and capitalist enclosure, which still persist today on the land, the body, life and knowledge, especially when these matters are said in the feminine.

Federici points, in this way, to a possible future of emancipation, of non-patriarchal and non-capitalist organization of social reproduction, which necessarily passes through an expansion and reinvention of the common. As she herself says: "The horizon proposed by the current discourse and politics of the commons does not consist in the promise of an impossible return to the past, but in the possibility of recovering the power to collectively decide our destiny on this earth." This is what she calls re-enchanting the world.