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The work of Silvia Federici is presented in this article through the prism of a “theory for action”, underlining how Federici has passed on her theorization in multiple ways. The article first analyzes the birth of the international movement “Wages for housework” in the context of which she established her feminist theorization, as well as the New York feminist collective in which Federici put in practice her theory. The article then traces the appropriations of her subversive conception of wages against capitalism in various contemporary mobilizations, at the same time when Federici herself is rather arguing for a politics of the commons in order to reclaim reproductive labor. Centering today her reflections on the role of reproductive work in the capitalist war against women, and how women can resist it, Federici proposes a collective and materialist conception of the body. This conception is today the object of theoretical and political debates, revealing Federici’s work’s continuing ability to inspire debates and action.