How Women Can Guarantee that Capitalism and Patriarchy Will Not Return in the Future?

The fact that the proportion of women around the world has been around 50% since the sixties of the last century is not an indicator of justice and equality. This vertical fact applies to a horizontal reality that is culturally, economically, and socially complex in most geographical regions, especially the Global South. This proportion of the world’s population, women, pays more than men for this percentage through the monopoly of social and economic capital’s top.

The nature of the concentration of the majority of the global proportion of women at the base of the capitalist pyramid is also an indicator of the prevalence that facilitates the oppression of women and the denial of access to the top of the pyramid. Despite the fact that there are very few women at the top of the pyramid, and these few do not represent the status of equality and equity for women, it is a form of support for the presence of the male elite at the head of the pyramid.

The Middle-Class Fragmentation

The historical process of justice, according to Marxist theory, does not proceed within a hierarchical class system, as we have explained above. It is a system that increases class gaps and seeks to disintegrate the middle class in societies based on capitalist dependency and divisions based on social prejudice. This means the middle class now is moving away from democratic values, human rights, and labor unions. From the middle class, an elite is running upward to the top!

It’s worth saying it is possible for the phenomenon of the middle class to become extreme and move towards the base of the pyramid, and this process comes easier when the divisions occur in the middle class.

Based upon that, the middle-class elite seeks its elite position through the dynamics of the disintegration of the divided middle class, by flooding the class with deferred investments that plunge the class into debt and commitment to the economically disadvantaged elite. This commitment makes the middle class fall under the deceptions of its liberalism.

Women’s Struggle of Positioning

Women are positioned in this landscape, and their rights become delayed projects because the majority of the world’s population is preoccupied with their commitment to the elite that has ensnared the middle class, which lives under the threat of a downward slide to the bottom, the poverty line.

The daily struggle of women in the sphere of the global capitalist struggle comes to be more tedious, because the patriarchal culture allied with the capitalist structures prevents the provision of a just environment for women. Women seek to create justice from the simplest to the most complex things, even though they face the impossible in achieving equality. But if the process of this struggle continues to follow a conscious path that accumulates small victories here and there, the large outstanding issues of women’s rights remain a future issue in which post-capitalist women will win major victories through the destruction of hierarchies and inherited social and cultural constraints that will not work in the coming decades. Technology will be humanity’s greatest challenge, and masculinity will no longer be a transit ticket for males to remain concentrated in the elite of societies or at the top of the capitalist pyramid.

A Perfect Protection Plan for Women!

In order to protect women’s equal opportunities in the future, it must be part of a tight protection plan that ensures that capitalism allied with the patriarchy will not return. The form of protection can be through the social position of women, between every man and man, one woman is positioned to ensure her equality and participation with men, and the lack of alliance of men, even on the issue of birth control. It is true that women are relatively involved in the marriage process with men, which makes this partnership more inclined toward a social bargain that ensures that men own women through marriage, but this ownership can be transformed into a real partnership, through the definition of reproductive roles. Here I refer to an article I had previously published on the website of The New Arab Newspaper entitled “The Reproductive Role of Women is a Burden: Work without Pay”. 

Towards a Qualitative Reproduction System

The issue of reproduction must be studied like a feasibility study of any project, because the next form of life in the light of technological superiority over humans indicates the futility of many in reproduction, but will become useful in the type of offspring. Genetic engineering can intervene in the issue of having meticulously curated children within the framework of social and economic laws.

Patriarchal systems in capitalist societies are at risk of decline and extinction in the long run, because if the dynamics in which women win victories over basic opportunities remain, a system that satisfies women and compensates them for the historical losses caused by patriarchal practices that oppress women will emerge.

The form of the expected system will be based on the foundations of protecting women from oppression and marginalization, which are legal foundations inspired by international conventions. These are difficult to implement in light of the capitalist conflict that is grinding the marginalized groups of societies, including women, but these charters will be realized in a practical economic and social life. This needs women’s activism and their rebellion against traditional patriarchal stereotypes from the hierarchical base in the form of a long-term organized revolution, based on science and the philosophy of laws and women’s non-silence on the issue of their marginalization. The issue of sacrifice and unpaid work starting from reproduction, through working outside the home for low wages that are not real wages and do not include full labor rights such as health insurance and the cost of living, this method of work is called exploitation of women and should be erased.