This is a bizarre assertion. I won’t discount there is a correlation, but if so it’s only because those western European cultures that valued proto-capitalism were also misogynistic. Absent a psychological mechanism that makes one lead to the other, this is at best a coincidence, but more likely an illusion.
Now’s your chance to type up a 90 page manifesto showing how all misogynistic cultures throughout ancient history were actually capitalist somehow. I always enjoy it when someone tries to hammer square pegs into the round holes.
Misogyny is not a product of capitalism and existed much before capitalism did in other economic systems, but capitalism heightens misogyny. Misogyny and sexism ended up being tools used to capture the reproductive labour of women. Silvia Federici discusses it in the context of feudal -> capitalist Europe in Caliban and the Witch.
This is a bizarre assertion. I won’t discount there is a correlation, but if so it’s only because those western European cultures that valued proto-capitalism were also misogynistic. Absent a psychological mechanism that makes one lead to the other, this is at best a coincidence, but more likely an illusion.
Now’s your chance to type up a 90 page manifesto showing how all misogynistic cultures throughout ancient history were actually capitalist somehow. I always enjoy it when someone tries to hammer square pegs into the round holes.
Misogyny is not a product of capitalism and existed much before capitalism did in other economic systems, but capitalism heightens misogyny. Misogyny and sexism ended up being tools used to capture the reproductive labour of women. Silvia Federici discusses it in the context of feudal -> capitalist Europe in Caliban and the Witch.