Capitalism’s abundance paradoxically enables a return to matriarchal culture.

Evidence

The advent of Protestantism had increased the sway of the father, as the security of medieval Catholicism with its womb-like church and cult of the Virgin Mother receded in effectiveness. The psychic foundations of capitalism were clearly patriarchal, although paradoxically capitalism had created the conditions for a return to a truly matriarchal culture. This was so because of the abundance of goods and services it provided, which might allow a less achievement-oriented reality principle. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 340

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The dialectical paradox — capitalism simultaneously rests on and undermines its own patriarchal psychic foundations — is a dense, non-obvious formulation central to the Institute’s materialist psychoanalysis and anticipates Marcuse’s later arguments about post-scarcity.
• XREF: connects to: Matriarchy theory had a socialist pedigree before its 1920s revival — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 334