Russel Means - Comments on Patriarchy vis-à-vis Matriarchy

"Now the obvious. Patriarchy is a fear based society where man rules alone. Therefore it is unbalanced. Patriarchy reared its ugly head over 6000 years ago at the same time as the marketplace became his tool.
Patriarchy and the marketplace cannot exist without one another.
The marketplace engenders greed which engenders empire.
When one takes a close look at the histories of all Patriarchal empires, you will find that they make the same mistakes over and over and over and over again.
From the ming dynasty to kublai khan to the egyptians, the greeks, the romans, the sun never sets on the english empire, the soviet union, and now the torture ridden empire of america. Nothing has changed for patriarchy, before jesus christ, or after jesus christ, before muhammed or after muhammed, before buddha or after buddha, et al."
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