Make Women Great Again: women, misogyny and anti-capitalism on the right

Neo-confederate blogger Dissident Mama describes the January 6 Capitol Insurrection as “#resistance without corporate sponsorship”. In a series of blogs, she appropriates language anti-capitalist movements to defend armed resistance from Charlottesville Capitol. Negative media coverage is woke “agitprop” by elites: journalists and politicians, but also “corporate goons.” These meanwhile, are “very people who empowered enriched mass democracy, forever wars, our oppression1”, according Mama. The wealth, profit, enrichment used criticize liberal democracy in throes corporations imperial wars. However, liberalism’s chief attack on family forgotten man, for Momma, its shock troops feminists. Defending riots, Momma positions herself, stay-at-home mother, at front lines another kind insurrection. She uniquely capable speaking out against tyranny capital, political correctness HR’s cancel culture. Without boss, cannot be fired or cancelled expressing explicit racism. Secondly, mother guardian traditional morality, values, southern White identities which being attacked cultural Marxists. home has become new battleground, herself points out. Her own insurrection homeschooling. Post after post, compares act homeschooling civil war; it “educational secession” freeing her children “puritanical progressives” Northern “power elite” run state public schools seek impose “globohomo tyranny” Southern boys. echoes familiar moral panics over Marxism, describing teachers “apparatchiks” “gulag mind.” But when discusses supposed anti-white bias “the educrats“ want make “rootless, hopeless, disoriented” uses anti-capitalism; despite marxists they “loyal consumers both governmental systems”2 For opposition marxism raising their “heritage” southern-style supremacy. believes lost cause mythology celebrates antebellum South high-water mark western civilization, frames today’s Southerners an oppressed “remnant.” anti-capitalism, supports not socialism paleolibertarianism. Paleolibertarians support deep social conservatism (or sexism racism) along with economic libertarianism, belief system roots chattel slavery (Maclean 2017). Capitalism good heritage; blog Amazon affiliate advertises Ron Paul’s libertarian homeschooling, Tuttle Twins children’s fables, addition white nationalist Christendom Curriculum. Anti-capitalist shades quickly into anti-feminism, Mama’s discourses, dismissing change HR newspeak conflating postwar gender roles affluence. Sophie Bjork James (2020) notes that Christian right often blames feminism socio-economic struggles late capitalism. This something common across far-right: Identitarian Lacey Lynn calls elitist anti-working class, conspiratorial vlog radio station RedIce fascist women fight communism, while evolutionary psychologists intellectual dark web Stefan Molyneux Jordan Peterson use anomie argue essentialism. deployed working elevating men, providing return “traditional” answer well challenges. That is, wing displaces anxieties about capitalism onto roles, love. this essay I look far-right activism, ways celebrate American breadwinner once diminishes feminist socialist critques, enougaging reframing concerns what Rosenthal gendered dispossession. emerges real failures capitalism, critiques capital might challenge identity politics right, instead encouraging reinvestment conservative order.