Witchcraft (and "magical approaches to production") needed to be eliminated for "the establishment of modern (male-dominated) science, and also for the growth of capitalist wage labor"
Federici: "This is how we must view the attack against witchcraft and against [the] magical view of the world [...] In this perspective [...] every element -- herbs, pants, metals, and most of all the human body --hid virtues and powers peculiar to it [...] From palmistry to divination, from the use of charms to sympathetic healing, magic opened a vast number of possibilities [...] Eradicating these practices was a necessary condition for the capitalist rationalisation of work, since magic appeared as an illicit form of power and an instrument to obtain what one wanted without work"
"'Magic kills industry,' lamented Francis Bacon, admitting that nothing repelled him so much as the assumption that one could obtain results with a few idle experiments, rather than with the sweat of one's brow"