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Modern Feminists Leading the Charge For Patriarchy? A Review of the Women’s Movements Today

International Women’s Day Special. Transcript included

“It cannot be overstated: there are no feminist bombs, feminist prisons, feminist cops, or feminist wars. There are only paid actors who have convinced people that their eventual demise and the demise of the planet is what will empower their lives today.”

– Nour Jaghama and Grace Siegelman [1]

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In November of 2001, Laura Bush, the First Lady of the United States indicated the War in Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom was to “liberate Afghan Women.” Before long, leaders of the Feminist Majority Foundation, joined forces with the U.S. government in promoting the war as part of a coalition of hope for the women of Afghanistan.[2]

It should be pointed out that an organization of Afghan women fighting for human rights and for social justice in Afghanistan since 1977 opposed the attacks and the U.S. backed government set up to replace the Taliban. [3]

Women’s marches across America in advance of last year’s presidential election determined to “show the strength of our feminist movement” were strangely silent about the women of Palestine who together with children which according to a poll released 3 days after the election made up nearly 70 percent of verified deaths. [4][5]

While one can’t deny the spectacular achievements of women’s groups throughout the 20th century, divisions within the movement connected to class and race are visible.[6][7]

More significantly, it seems as if feminism is now entrenched in the beast of Western imperial control, just as it can be argued other forms of activism, like environmental activism, is secretly and probably unwittingly servicing financial elites.[8]

But there is an even more stunning revelation in play. The broader system that encourages and propels humanity in favour of antagonism toward women and life generally has been left untouched by today’s major feminist movements.

Today feminist movements by and large seem more concerned with the more narrow but agreed upon concerns around attaining gender equality. This is in fact the stated theme for this year’s International Womens Day – “Accelerate Action,” emphasizing the urgency of expediting progress toward gender parity. [9]

In a nutshell, it can be argued, women’s organizations today are proceeding to pluck the noxious weeds of the visible assailants at the stem. But, this radio program is endeavouring to pluck them out at the root and stop the patterns of oppression from continuing to devour the women, the communities and the very life from our planet. On the Global Research News Hour, this good gardening tip will be the focus of our examination of women’s rights on the Golden Anniversary of International Women’s Day.

In our first half hour, we have a conversation with Dr. Claudia von Werlhof, an academic currently focused on the critique of patriarchy, about what patriarchy is and how it can be fought. In our second half hour, we are joined once again by award-winning journalist, broadcaster and author Sonali Kolhatkar about the rise and fall of women’s rights in Afghanistan BEFORE THE TALIBAN CAME TO POWER. And then later we speak to CODEPINK’s Palestinian-American campaigner Nour Jaghama about the little spoken and unacknowledged defiance and resistance among Palestinian women and what needs to be done to ensure that the feminism we practice today is not used as a vehicle for military and capitalist gain.

Claudia von Werlhof, born in 1943 near Berlin, Germany, is a University Professor of political sciences and women’s studies in Austria at Innsbruck, mother of a sun. She co-invented the “Bielefeld School” in Germany, worked at the grass roots in Central- and South America, developed the “Critical Theory of Patriarchy”, co-founded FIPAZ (Research Institute for the Critique of Patriarchy and Alternative Civilizations), the “Planetary Movement for Mother Earth” and “BOOMERANG – Journal for the Critique of Patriarchy”. She is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization, Montreal.

Sonali Kolhatlar is a Journalist, activist, and artist, and the founder, host, and executive producer of Pacifica’s popular weekly program Rising Up With Sonali which airs on Free Speech TV and Pacifica radio stations. She is also the founding Co-Director of the Afghan Women’s Mission, a US-based non-profit solidarity organization that funds the work of RAWA.

Nour Jaghama is CODEPINK’s Palestine and Iran Campaigner. Nour graduated from DePaul University with a bachelor’s degree in International Studies in June 2022. She has been advocating for Palestinian liberation for over 5 years, including organizing within her university. She also organizes around related issues, such as abolition. She is co-author of the article Does Your Feminism Include Palestine?

(Global Research News Hour Episode 464)

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Transcript of Dr. Claudia von Werlhof, March 6, 2025

Global Research: Could you talk about patriarchy? I mean, what do you mean by that term? And when and why did it come into existence in the first place?

Claudia von Werlhof: Well, it’s a difficult story, but I did my best to dismantle it in a way. Because normally, if at all the term patriarchy is used, it is used as a term that defines something like a rule of men over women or the domination of men and something like a political category of rule over, but mostly nothing else. And what we learned also with Rosalie Bertell was that patriarchy has a totally different meaning, a much more general meaning that includes especially technologies.

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That is something normally not seen and not conceived as a problem, but we did our best to define it that way. One could say that patriarchy is a system, and our civilization is patriarchal today as well, is a system that tries to change the natural order as such, especially the fact that Mother Earth, as well as women in general, are those who create life and who are the creators of life in general worldwide. And this is exactly what a patriarchal ruler or a patriarchal idea does not like.

They want to be the rulers themselves, and they want to be the creators themselves. So something like we could say that the planet is organized in a motherly way. The planet is our mother, Mother Earth.

And the fathers are just a term that is different. And the fathers in patriarchy, pater means father, that’s a Latin term, want to be the origin, arche. This is a Greek term, patriarchy, pater and arche.

They want to be the creators of everything. And this means that they have developed a system in which all natural conditions and women as creators are destroyed and replaced by something else. At least, this is their utopia.

The utopia of patriarchy is replacing the world as it is by something else, namely a fatherly world or an artificially produced world that is not natural anymore and is beyond women and nature, so to say. This is the big, I mean, movement that patriarchy that exists since about 6,000 years only, this is not much, has followed. It’s the path of patriarchy that we can see today.

And Rosalie was the first to acknowledge this in relation to our planet as such. So the military tries to something like to change the earth as a living being, as our Mother Earth, and transform her into a weapon of war. This is what she found out in her book, in her last book, Planet Earth, the Latest Weapon of War in 2000.

So this is the larger line that we have explained by our research. And that means that all these idea of rule of men over women only is just one feature or one part of the whole game. And that the whole game is essential for men as well, and for everybody else, and for nature as such, because it is destructive.

It’s first of all destructive. I call this method the alchemical standard procedure. It is a method that starts with destroying everything, and then using the matter that is left to rebuild it with something else together.

So in order to create some artificial world, and this world today is the machine world. So this in short is our definition of patriarchy, which is much broader and much more important than all these other definitions we had until now.

GR: What are prominent examples of patriarchy’s malefacts in the 21st century today?

CVW: Well, the whole technological development. I mean, the machine technology was the first attempt to replace a living nature that was defined as dead, dead matter by the sciences to replace her by a machine production or a machine world, which is important because the machine is not just a device or so, but is a system which is growing all the time because the machine tries to transform everything into machinery, not just what it did already, but all the rest. This is what Gunther Anders, one of the most important critics of machine production, and he’s a philosopher in Austria.

He said it’s the trend towards the one machine. Everything is becoming only a single machine or what Mumford called the mega machine. And this is exactly what is happening today with the new fourth industrial revolution.

That is all these technologies in the micro and macro level, starting with the earth, like Bertel, down to DNA, to synthetic biology, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and all the biological technologies that are related to this concept of destruction, down to subatomic levels even, and all the atomic industry, of course, is part of the same game, and transform that into a totally new creation that has nothing to do with nature and its development and evolution anymore. So this is until we have the problem with transhumanism, that this technology also includes the human as such, men and women and everything, trying even to replace the mother by machinery. So you have that.

What is happening today is exactly the last phase or the last possibility this technology of patriarchy has developed.

GR: The counterforce, as I understand it, against patriarchy then is a female-dominated matriarchy. What’s an example of recognizing this principle and applying it in a practical way?

CVW: Well, no, matriarchy was never a female-dominated civilization.

I mean, a matriarchal civilization is much older than the patriarchal one, and it never developed a domination system or a system that was ruled by women instead of men. This is a lie that is repeated everywhere all the time. There have been so many researchers of matriarchal societies until now.

That is a knowledge that is not recognized anywhere, it seems, because matriarchal society was in tune with nature. And this is exactly the difference to patriarchal society that wants to destroy nature and replace her by something else. This is the difference.

By the way, very difficult to see that because patriarchs don’t tell their inventions as post-natural or anti-natural ones, but they say it’s the new nature, it’s the better nature, and it’s the second nature, etc., the more developed nature, because they try to avoid that people see what’s really happening. So the matriarchal stuff is something else, which is very different from patriarchy, especially in that it never developed a technology or anything against nature, but cooperated with nature all the time, something like a culture oriented towards the nature that was surrounding it. So this is the complete difference to patriarchal development.

GR: As I understand it, Indigenous peoples all over the world, as I understand it, they worked according to that matriarchal principle of working with nature and not working for the big buck or whatever. Is that essentially what we’re talking about reverting to?

CVW: Yes, as far as they are still matriarchal or nearly quasi-matriarchal, because most of the Indigenous peoples have been destroyed by colonizers, etc., so they have lost their matriarchal qualities as a society, but there are many left, many are left, and there are still matriarchal groups and societies around the world, but they are now threatened by globalization and everything and all that destruction that takes place, but they still exist. So you can prove that they really exist and have existed so far.

And what I see in the alternative movements, social movements around the world in the south of this planet, most of them really want to return to a matriarchal society, even if they don’t call it like that. The term matriarchy is not really used or patriarchy in that way, but from their content, it’s very clear that they want to return to a nature-based and cooperative society without rules, domination, and all that stuff that we know from patriarchy, especially in modern times related to capitalist patriarchy. So this is clear, they want to return.

It happened in Europe as well, when Europe became modern, in modern times, and all these movements of the peasants and the women were related to a return to a matriarchal past, because Europe was a matriarchal society as well. But normally it’s not recognized, but this is a fact. So we have that in common.

But until now, it is very difficult to return from a patriarchal society to a matriarchal one. This has never happened until now, but people want to do it in a way. It would be a solution for many, many problems.

GR: A lot of the problem is that it’s not, these issues, they’re not well explained by media, especially today. Could we alter the media, given its strong allegiances to the corporate and military sectors? Can we counter patriarchy in the media, or is media like the military so patriarchy-dominated that it should be abandoned altogether?

CVW: Yes, but the media wouldn’t do that. I mean, we know what the media are and how they function.

I mean, there are alternative media. And of course, I think that the situation is going to be worse always more. I mean, I call it an alchemical war system in which we are in now, and you will have wars around the world always, and people will have to try to get to another civilization.

Of course, they will try to. But until now, there is no understanding of the real problem that is what I call patriarchy. It’s not understood at all, and most people really react aggressively because they think, oh, men are now to be blamed, et cetera.

But it’s a question of much more than just men. It’s a system. I call it also, it hates life.

It’s a hatred of life that we are experiencing because everything which is alive is going to be destroyed by these technologies and these interests behind, like the military and capital, et cetera. And this is what is occurring, but people until now do not understand what is really happening. So this is a question of how to, yeah, well, how to make this known.

I mean, people will know when they are treated like transhumans now, or when these technologies are experienced as bad and as destructive, maybe then they will understand because then they are affected personally even, and maybe they will change their mind. But I don’t know. I mean, I am preparing the publication of my book, which is already in English translation, and it’s called Fathers of the Void.

And a subtitle is on the delusion or on the mania to create a new world. So this is meant by patriarchy who say that they are constructing a better and higher and a more civilized world, but a world which is beyond nature, women and all what we love. So the question of hatred is for me very important as the ultimate term that explains what is really happening.

They don’t like us. They want to do away with us. They hate us.

I mean, as the living beings and the living planet we are. So this is the problem. And this, by the way, this gender question you mentioned in the beginning, the gender question has nothing to do with any women’s movement.

This is something from above that prepares women and men to lose their sex, what is called sex generally. Gender is a social term, the social term, and sex is the more biological term. They want to try to destroy us by losing our sex in the form that is the natural sex we have.

So this is a part of this technological project of transforming the world into an anti-natural and a totally alien to nature civilization where most people don’t, all these trans discussion, et cetera, don’t understand whom they are serving when they just participate in this game.

GR: Have you gotten any negative feedback for your work on fighting patriarchy?

CVW: Well, the gender question, this is not feminism. Feminism is what we had in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. This was further on destroyed more and more by neoliberalism.

And all these approaches that came from high above like gender, et cetera. So this is not feminism. Feminism is something that is where I come from and that tries to define what is the problem.

I mean, this is our critical theory of patriarchy is exactly one of the outcomes of real feminism. There is the gender and other questions of the political participation of women in war, et cetera. And what you quoted in the beginning is something that we, of course, abhor.

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Manova-Exklusivgespräch: Claudia von Werlhof – Die große Verwirrung

Im Manova-Exklusivgespräch mit Elisa Gratias erläutert die emeritierte Professorin für Politikwissenschaft und Frauenforschung Claudia von Werlhof den bisher tabuisierten Ursprung der aktuellen Krisen.

Unsere Welt wird immer künstlicher. Beim Aufenthalt in der Shopping-Mall nach einem Waldspaziergang ist diese Erkenntnis besonders schmerzhaft. Die meisten Menschen im Westen wurden bereits in diese Kunstwelt hineingeboren und halten sie zum Großteil für normal. Der technische Fortschritt ist unsere Religion. Die neuzeitliche Wissenschaft ersetzt die Naturordnung durch eine künstliche Ordnung, von der sie behauptet, sie sei besser. Doch etliche Naturwissenschaftler beobachten oft nur zerstückelte Teile aus der Natur und fokussieren auf einen winzigen Ausschnitt. Claudia von Werlhof kritisiert seit Langem die vierte industrielle Revolution, die ganze Gender- und Klimadebatte sowie die fehlenden Auseinandersetzungen zu Geoengineering und Nanotechnologien, ja Technik im Allgemeinen. Im Manova-Exklusivgespräch erklärt sie ausführlich, wie all dies mit der Entwicklung des Patriarchats zusammenhängt und was dieser Begriff wirklich bedeutet. Sie fordert, dass wir endlich erkennen müssen, was um uns herum passiert, um die Verwirklichung des Transhumanismus-Albtraums zu verhindern.

Die westliche Industriegesellschaft basiert auf der Zerstörung unserer natürlichen Lebensgrundlagen. Weite Teile der Arbeitswelt und unseres Konsumverhaltens basieren auf der Methode, die Natur zunächst zu zerlegen und danach in etwas Künstliches zu verwandeln. Dieses Vorgehen stammt aus der Alchemie, einem Begriff, mit dem die meisten heute obskure Experimente verbinden, die längst gescheitert sind. Die Maschine ist aus der Sicht ihrer Erfinder das neue Leben. Doch ohne Energie ist die Maschine nur ein Haufen Schrott. Auch die moderne Alchemie der Naturwissenschaften ist zum Scheitern verurteilt. Doch, ob wir dieses Scheitern überleben, ist die andere Frage.

Claudia von Werlhof erkannte diese Zusammenhänge im Laufe ihrer lebenslangen Forschung und formulierte die Erklärung dafür in ihrer „kritischen Patriarchatstheorie“. Sobald jedoch der Begriff Patriarchat fällt, hören sehr viele weg. Es ist Zeit, zu erkennen, dass dieser Begriff wie so viele andere — Verschwörungstheoretiker, Querdenker, Coronaleugner — völlig „verhunzt“ gebraucht wird.

Im Manova-Exklusivgespräch erklärt die Forscherin ausführlich, was er wirklich bedeutet, und wie er sich bis in den Transhumanismus fortsetzt. Für eine lebenswerte Zukunft müssen wir endlich erkennen, was eigentlich um uns herum los ist. Ihre kritische Patriarchatstheorie betrifft alle Bereiche: das Klima, die Ökologiefrage, die Gender-Debatte, den Transhumanismus und die vierte industrielle Revolution.

Väter des Nichts: Warum heute Alles kaputt geht – Teil 2 | Prof. Claudia von Werlhof

Prof. Claudia von Werlhof ist eine renommierte Wissenschaftlerin und Aktivistin, die sich intensiv mit Themen wie Patriarchatskritik und Alternativen zur neoliberalen Weltordnung auseinandersetzt. Sie hatte bis 2011 den ersten Frauenforschungslehrstuhl in Österreich am Institut für Politikwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck inne und ist seitdem emeritiert. Sie hat zahlreich publiziert zur internationalen Politik, Frauenbewegung und forschung, Entwicklung/ Unterentwicklung, Alternativen und soziale Bewegungen im Agrarsektor, Kapitalismus und Patriarchatskritik, Technologie- und Ökologiefrage, aber auch zur Globalisierung und Neoliberalismus. Sie hat 2007 das FIPAZ (Forschungsinstitut für Patriarchatskritik und Alternative Zivilisationen) gegründet und 2010 die PBME (Planetare Bewegung für Mutter Erde) gegründet.

Teil 2 unseres Gesprächs bietet eine Fülle von Einsichten und fordert zum kritischen Denken und Handeln auf. Es ist ein Muss für alle, die sich für die komplexen Herausforderungen unserer Zeit interessieren und nach tiefgreifenden Lösungen suchen:

Systemkritik und Neuausrichtung: Die Notwendigkeit, das derzeitige System, das als „alchemistisches Kriegssystem“ bezeichnet wird, zu überdenken und zu reformieren. Es fordert eine neue Ordnung, die im Einklang mit der Natur steht und nicht auf Ausbeutung und Zerstörung basiert.

Technologie und Menschlichkeit: Kritik an der zunehmenden Abhängigkeit von Technologie und Maschinen. Die Diskussion stellt die Frage, was passiert, wenn Maschinen das Denken für uns übernehmen und wie dies zu einer Entmenschlichung und möglicherweise zu einer Verschiebung hin zum Transhumanismus führen könnte.

Bewusstseinswandel und Handlung: Die Notwendigkeit eines „Sprungs im Bewusstsein“: Veränderung muss nicht nur auf systemischer, sondern auch auf individueller Ebene stattfinden. Umdenken in Bezug auf unsere Beziehung zur Natur, zur Technologie und zueinander ist erforderlich.

Väter des Nichts: Warum heute Alles kaputt geht – Teil 1 | Prof. Claudia von Werlhof

Im heutigen Gespräch geht es um:

Die Kritik am Patriarchat: Prof. Claudia von Werlhof geht tiefgreifend auf die fest verwurzelten patriarchalen Strukturen ein, die unsere Gesellschaft geprägt haben. Sie argumentiert, dass dieser Einfluss des Patriarchats zur Degradierung der Natur un der Umwelt geführt hat. Die Diskussion legt nahe, dass dies ein seit Tausenden von Jahren andauernder Prozess ist, der durch moderne technologische Fortschritte beschleunigt wurde.

Die Umkehrung der Natur und ihre Konsequenzen: Im Gespräch wird das Konzept der Umkehrung der natürlichen Ordnung der Welt durch technologische und alchemistische Mittel erforscht. Diese Umkehr hat zur Zerstörung kleiner Lebewesen, Pflanzen und sogar der Ozonschicht geführt. Die Diskussion berührt auch, wie diese Umkehr sowohl die Natur als auch die Menschen beeinflusst und zu einer Zukunft führen könnte, die mit Umwelt- und Gesellschaftsproblemen belastet ist.

Die Rolle der Technologie und des Fortschritts: Im Interview wird der ungeprüfte Glaube an Technologie als eine Form des Fortschritts in Frage gestellt. Prof. Claudia von Werlhof argumentiert, dass dieser sogenannte Fortschritt tatsächlich mehr Schaden als Nutzen anrichtet, was zur Erschöpfung natürlicher Ressourcen und zur irreversiblen Umwandlung der Natur in Kapital führt.

Prof. Dr. Claudia von Werlhof | Video-Interview „Neue Wege Kongress 2023“

Interviewer: Christiane Trautwein-Lykke.

Der „Neue Wege Kongress“ ist ein Online-Event, das vom 6. August bis zum 18. August 2023 stattfand.
Das Motto des Kongresses lautet „Create y Change – Mutmacher & Weckruf – Heilsames für mein Leben tun“.
Der Kongress dreht sich um die Themen Identität & Individualität, Freiheit & Selbstbestimmung.

A world without mothers?

Would any of us want to live in a world without mothers?

The question may sound absurd, but the eugenicists behind test-tube babies and surrogate motherhood now have their sights on genetic engineering and artificial wombs, which would cut women out of the reproductive process.

This is the warning sounded in a powerful special edition of the French journal Ecologie & Politique, which has sparked some controversy (see below).

In their introductory article, entitled ‘The obsolesence of birth’, Mathias Lefèvre and Jacques Luzi write: “The creation of an artificial womb would confirm the disassociation, initiated by in vitro fertilisation, between the female body and human reproduction.”

“It would no longer be a case of ‘giving birth to the other’ or ‘bringing them into the world’, but of ‘producing a child’ – if possible, without defects”.

They trace the origins of the current threat to a “reductionist, mechanical and utilitarian representation of nature” which incited an “essentially totalitarian global programme”.

This involved the construction of “a new, artificial world, judged to be better than the previous one, in the pursuit of order, enrichment and power. We call this programme ‘industrialism’.”

An important contribution to the journal comes from Silvia Guerini of the Italian group Resistenze al nanomondo, who is one of the founders of FINAARGIT, the international feminist network against all artificial reproduction, gender ideology and transhumanism.

In her article entitled ‘A world without mothers?’, she argues that while the current justification for the technology is on medical grounds, helping people who cannot have babies naturally, the long-term goal for the industry is no doubt to make artificial reproduction the norm.

As Luzi explains, the various branches of biotechnology “are the means by which techno-capitalism can push back the limits of its development by turning life itself into an infinitely-exploitable raw material.”

“The biomedical grip on human reproduction is part of the general process of the commodification of life.”

Industrialist greed-monsters cannot stand the thought that there are things we can do ourselves, for free, without them being able to extract any profit.

It would be in their financial self-interest if everyone was obliged to shop at their baby supermarkets, either because for some reason we were sterile or because it was simply no longer the done thing to indulge in dangerously unscientific and unhygienic natural reproduction.

Guerini suggests: “The use of your own body would be considered a sign of social inferiority and poverty. A natural mother would be considered potentially irresponsible, like mothers who currently opt for home birth, refusing the hospitalisation and medicalisation of the process… Natural childbirth would first be treated as irresponsible, then criminal”.

Eugenics, so dear to 20th century totalitarians, is central to the artificial reproduction programme.

Guerini writes: “Remember that there can be no Medically Assisted Procreation (MAP) without the selection of spermatozoa and of embryos… When technoscientists get involved in the process of procreation they want to set the characteristics of each of these elements, choose them, modify them and determine the end result.

“The laboratory environment transforms the birth process into a technical operation: the embryo becomes a product to be selected, improved, rejected or transformed”.

The grotesque direction in which this could take us is indicated by recent American-Chinese-Spanish experiments involving the fusion of genes to create half-human half-monkey embryos, she says.

Every phase of techno-industrial “progress” needs its cheerleaders, and today these often seem associated with the “woke” left.

Guerini explains that there have long been some feminists, notably Shulasmith Firestone, who acclaim artificial reproduction as “liberating” women from “biological tyranny”.

And she predicts that artificial wombs will be demanded, like MAP, as a “right” for everyone, including “transgender” people.

These are “false rights”, says Guerini, and need to be exposed as such.

“Having a child cannot be claimed as a right, neither for a heterosexual couple nor for a homosexual couple, nor for a single woman or man. There cannot be a right to have a child. The capacity to generate life cannot be claimed as a new right by men who identify as women. Procreation can never belong to them”.

Guerini notes that “the interests and the demands of the LGBTQ+ movement and of transfeminism on the subject of reproduction converge with those of the techno-scientific and transhumanist system”.

Here, incidentally, she is echoed by Renaud Garcia, whose own contribution to the journal describes such “woke” pseudo-radicals as “agents of social acceptability” for a techno-system “directed by the caste of possession, power and knowledge”.

Guerini warns: “MAP, selecting embryos, experimenting on embryos, genetic modification and artificial wombs are all deeply-connected aspects of the same transhumanist project.”

“Techno-scientific progress is constantly accelerating, and ethical barriers are tumbling one after the other, bringing us closer to a new neutral and infinitely-modifiable species in a post-human and post-natural world.”

“A world without mothers, which has definitively and totally expropriated women’s bodies and their reproductive dimension, which has definitively and totally taken control of the life-creating process, which engineers the living and which dominates the evolution of the human species itself”.

Garcia, for his part, argues that authentic environmentalists need to “denounce with all their strength the forces of artificial human reproduction and criticise its agents of social acceptability”.

Otherwise, if they swallow all the manipulative propaganda, they will be unable to do anything to halt the advance of the ruthless techno-industrial system – “in other words, the crushing of human nature by the power of the machine”.

SOURCE: www.thewinteroak.org.uk

Interview-Reihe „Schöpfung aus Zerstörung bzw. Zerstörung durch „Schöpfung“

Prof. Dr. Claudia von Werlhof führt ein in die Kritische Patriarchatstheorie und die Alchemiethese.

BUMERANG – Ausgabe #3 – Patriarchat als Technik – ist da!

Die Ausgabe #3 des BUMERANG, unserer Zeitschrift für Patriarchatskritik, ist online und sie ist eine Wucht!
Sie trägt den Titel „Patriarchat als Technik“ und umfasst Artikel in den Sprachen Deutsch, Englisch, Spanisch und Italienisch.

Aus dem Leitartikel von Claudia von Werlhof:
Der besondere Schachzug in fast allen Debatten über die moderne Gesellschaft, insbesondere
aber ihre „Technik“, besteht darin, deren Entstehung und Entwicklung sowie ihre Zukunft als
quasi „natürliche“ und vor allem „neutrale“, also nicht ideologisch bestimmte, sondern als für „die Menschheit“ und die moderne Zivilisation im Prinzip nützliche, positive und zu begrüßende, ja einzig mögliche vorauszusetzen.
Diese im Voraus stattfindende „Setzung“ (Ernst1993) wird so gut wie nie als eine solche benannt oder gar hinterfragt. Sie wird gar nicht bemerkt, sondern generell „geteilt“. Das Denken der modernen Technik – und Gesellschaft – als grundsätzlich „gute“ ist damit quasi außer Streit gestellt, als ob darüber nicht (mehr) zu reden oder etwas daran zu ändern wäre.

Hier geht’s zum BUMERANG – Ausgabe #3 – Patriarchat als Technik

Call for Participation: Aufruf für BUMERANG #3, 2017

Patriarchat als Methode: “Technik!“

Da diese Frage bisher am wenigsten verstanden wird, wird auch das Patriarchat immer noch nicht wirklich verstanden. Deshalb ist diese Nummer zum Thema für alles Weitere wichtig.

Unter Technik im und des Patriarchats verstehen wir mit dem Ansatz der KPT nicht einfach nur das, was sonst meist darunter verstanden wird, nämlich irgendeine mehr oder weniger „neutrale“ praktische Tätigkeit. Sondern wir verstehen unter „Technik“ die Entwicklung einer allgemeinen Methode des Umgangs mit allem und allen, wie sie etwa die „Alchemie“ bereits in der Antike definiert. Die Methode ist sozusagen „methodos“, der Weg, der beschritten wird, und damit gleichzeitig „Theorie“ darüber, welches dieser Weg ist, da er zu einem bestimmten Ziel führen soll. Patriarchale Technik ist aus unserer Sicht daher niemals „neutral“.

Damit unterscheiden sich patriarchale Techniken grundsätzlich von anderen, z. B. matriarchalen, gegen die sie antreten. Denn patriarchale Techniken akzeptieren grundsätzlich nicht das, was und wie etwas /jemand von sich aus ist, sondern versuchen es /ihn /sie nicht nur zu behandeln, z.B. zu liebkosen, oder damit in anderen Formen zu kooperieren. Sondern patriarchale Techniken versuchen, das Vorhandene mit Gewalt in ein Gegenteil zu transformieren. Sie verfolgen also immer einen bestimmten, und zwar immer auch zerstörerischen Zweck.

Dieser Zweck ist als Schritt in Richtung einer als positiv angesehenen Utopie von einer kommenden höheren Zivilisation generell definiert. Diese Utopie und die Schritte in ihre Richtung sind so internalisiert worden, dass sie als irrationales und systematisches „Hass-auf-das–Lebendige“-Projekt nicht erkannt werden. Stattdessen haben sie unser aller Denken, Fühlen, Handeln und Wollen immer mehr geprägt und sind ins kollektiv Unbewusste gesunken. Die Schritte in Richtung der Utopie von einer „besseren und höheren“ Welt, die mit patriarchalen Techniken unternommen werden, sind damit allem anderen vorausgesetzt und gelten damit als selbstverständlich und „natürlich“.

Statt die dadurch und damit um sich greifende Zerstörung alles Lebendigen, ja inzwischen der Lebensgrundlagen dieses Planeten selbst, zu erkennen, gilt gerade moderne Technik als unverzichtbares Fortschrittsunternehmen der sich entwickelnden „Produktivkräfte“. Daher wird die Moderne auch immer noch nicht als „kapitalistisches Patriarchat“ verstanden, das zur bisher umfangsreichsten und systematischsten Zerstörung der Welt führt. Sondern es wird höchstens auf seine rein ökonomische Seite der Plünderung der Natur, der Ausbeutung der Arbeitskraft oder etwa der „Ausbeutung von Frauen als Ware“, reduziert gesehen. Dass es darüber hinaus vor allem um den Prozess ihrer aller „alchemistischen“ Transformation und schließlich Abschaffung zugunsten einer männergeschaffenen Kunstwelt geht, bleibt immer noch unsichtbar oder wird als Fortschritt begrüßt!

Wir fangen an mit matriarchaler Magie und Alchemie, gehen über das Handwerk zur Maschinentechnik und damit zur patriarchalen Schwarzmagie und Alchemie… Technik als Teil des Naturverhältnisses handelt von der Tätigkeit von, mit und durch Menschen als innere Natur, und mit Materie / Lebensformen als äußere Natur, und reicht vom Mikro des Atoms bis zum Makro des Planeten… von der Materie bis zum Geist, und umgekehrt den „Spirits“ bis zum Leib…

Verantwortlich für diese Nummer: Claudia von Werlhof.

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