ABSTRACT
This chapter extends Marxist class analysis by offering an ecofeminist, ecosocialist perspective that highlights the gendered and racialized aspects of class composition and class struggle. It argues that misogyny in all its forms, including racist sexualized violence, is not only a horrific, episodic side-effect of the colonization, enclosure, and alienation processes of capitalism, but it is also a constantly present mechanism of capital accumulation and the preservation of private property. Capitalists’ control over women’s labour power–producing capacities is essential to the continuity of the profit system. Misogyny, it is shown, is also a matter of ecology because women’s alienation from nature and the commons undergirds their vulnerability to violence and control by men. This perspective further affirms the transformational power and potential of popular struggles led by alliances among and with Indigenous women, peasants, and people of colour to break the value chains of capital and organize for the maintenance, defense, and elaboration of socially and ecologically just political economies beyond capitalism.
