People always talk about importance of patriarchy for social replication of capitalism, about how capitalism is always going to buck against any attempts at social progress. But I dunno, neoliberalism has been pretty effective at integrating some forms of feminism and gay rights into its polite society, so I feel at some point a lot of bigotry isn't so much material relations, but just a thing of habit...
So I guess my question is, what exactly are those material conditions and why are they making people reactionary on social issues?
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Neoliberalism only uses progressive values to widen its pool of Human Resources/capital to use the best humans of any gender/race/etc that it can find to make capitalism as efficient as possible as the rate of profit slows down.
It’s not just that (white/straight/cis/wealthy) people need scapegoats, it’s that they use the scapegoating to keep marginalized groups away from resources that they want for themselves and used to have all to themselves.