The capitalist-colonial-patriarchal relationship

a debate among critical feminists

Abstract

This paper focuses on the problematic of the relationship between capitalism, coloniality, and patriarchy that opens, in a first movement, from a critique of Marxist materialist feminism to Marxism and, in a second, a reading of data from a decolonial feminist critique. To this end, we will address the issue of the social reproduction of materialist Marxist feminisms, a central axis for understanding the patriarchal determinations of capitalism and vice versa, and then cross-reference it with the issue of gender coloniality brought up by decolonial feminisms. To this end, we will carry out two analytical movements: we will highlight the feminist critique of Marxism based on the category of social reproduction and then explore the critique of decolonial feminism on the category of patriarchy in materialist Marxist feminism, which presupposes a certain configuration of sex as the material basis of gender.