• spujb@lemmy.cafe
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    5 days ago

    In The Second Sex, De Beauvoir quotes Engels as he argues that patriarchy (as we know it today) likely arose with the advent of private property. So there is some relation to capitalism (of which private property is a core component), but it goes back way further than the Black Plague and marking it down to “trade promotion” is over-simplistic at best in that it’s wayyyy worse than that.

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      4 days ago

      What you are saying is that private property laid the basis for patriarchy and (much later) for capitalism

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        4 days ago

        That is what I am quoting De Beauvoir and Engels as saying, yes.