WordaDay – Marxist Glossary Mini 3.0 – Mother-right

Mother-right described stable ancient communities with an established and prescribed pattern of observance of societal roles in which there were no classes, no inequality and no uncompensated, exploited labor. Mother-right was a pattern of family life based on the natural division of labor. It held sway until the breakup of the primitive communal system and […]

WordaDay – Marxist Glossary Mini 3.0 – Male Supremacy

Male supremacy is built into the architecture of bourgeois productive relations. It justifies the domination of men over women, and is a weapon the capitalists use to pay women less and reap billions of dollars in profit from their super-exploitation. The origin of male supremacy coincided with the initial creation of private property, the division […]