i mean patriarchy was a much more dominant social logic which has declined and warped as capitalism has found it to be unnecessary. it's useful in economies which rely on unpaid reproductive labor, but in a country with an enormous service industry and desk jobs which wish to supplant the family, traditional patriarchical values become more of a liability.
I think its more that capital no longer wants to pay for imperial core labor, so the discipline of patriarchy is no longer necessary. It can be mostly relegated to a cultural battle that capital can parasitize off off. Not to even remotely imply that women's liberation is not central to a truly liberated future, only to elucidate why girl boss feminism is and had been the dominant thread in the imperial core.
Your analysis isn't unsound, I just tend to think capital is less deliberative in it's processes. It also explains why birth rates tend to fall in developed capitalists nations while they continue to grow in periphery regions, it makes sense to just buy cheap labor from an "externalized" source rather than bother to pay for social reproduction/expansion. More importantly it explains the declining birthrate trend in imperial core countries without falling back on fascist Malthusian bullshit that places the onus on individuals and morality.
i mean patriarchy was a much more dominant social logic which has declined and warped as capitalism has found it to be unnecessary. it's useful in economies which rely on unpaid reproductive labor, but in a country with an enormous service industry and desk jobs which wish to supplant the family, traditional patriarchical values become more of a liability.
I think its more that capital no longer wants to pay for imperial core labor, so the discipline of patriarchy is no longer necessary. It can be mostly relegated to a cultural battle that capital can parasitize off off. Not to even remotely imply that women's liberation is not central to a truly liberated future, only to elucidate why girl boss feminism is and had been the dominant thread in the imperial core.
okay yeah i see that, that's a much better analysis than mine
Your analysis isn't unsound, I just tend to think capital is less deliberative in it's processes. It also explains why birth rates tend to fall in developed capitalists nations while they continue to grow in periphery regions, it makes sense to just buy cheap labor from an "externalized" source rather than bother to pay for social reproduction/expansion. More importantly it explains the declining birthrate trend in imperial core countries without falling back on fascist Malthusian bullshit that places the onus on individuals and morality.