All 3 Uses of
patriarchy
in
The Communist Manifesto
- The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations.†
*patriarchal = relating to a form of social organization in which men are given more power than women
- Nay more, in proportion as the use of machinery and division of labour increases, in the same proportion the burden of toil also increases, whether by prolongation of the working hours, by increase of the work exacted in a given time or by increased speed of the machinery, etc. Modern industry has converted the little workshop of the patriarchal master into the great factory of the industrial capitalist.†
- Its last words are: corporate guilds for manufacture, patriarchal relations in agriculture.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(patriarchy) a form of social organization in which men are given more power than women
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, patriarchy can refer specifically to a form of social organization in which men head families and title is traced through the male line.