ABSTRACT
ECONOMICS, IN ITS customary and misleading universal usage, is the circulation in society of values, meaning, and the basics of daily life. Economics is, however, more accurately termed “patriarchal economics,” for it is premised, in theory and in practice, on the placing in movement, by men, of that without which females cannot exist. Such an economy is patriarchal both by definition and in its consequences: objectification and possession; the imposition of obligation; the institution of work, a making that is in the service of another, and of poverty, the lifelong outcome of such oppression. Patriarchal economics, be it capitalist, socialist, Marxist, or anarchist, preserves its self-interest by demanding that all females be women, females who produce and use the objects, children, ideas, and money of the patriarchal economy, and that all women be heterosexual, females engaged in a production and use of goods that is directed to the well-being of men.
