Marxists don't consider capitalism good, historically necessary, or inevitable. Any analysis of capitalism is solely in the impressiveness and expanse of capitalist production. But its contradictions, such as the violent conquest of the feminine, are what spur our condemnation.
The first class distinctions were indeed patterned on the distinction between ‘man’ and ‘woman’ within the reproductive division of labor, and all subsequent class formations were (in germ) contained within this class relationship, but the genealogical antecedence of-
Nigerian Marxist explains that communism isn't workers seize the ready-made means of production. Rather, workers transform the natue of means of production from machines that increase productivity of workers making surplus-value for capital to that which expands human beings.
@Marians_Diary Nobody serious is claiming prehistoric societies were universally matriarchal. They varied enormously. The materialist argument is that patriarchy became institutionalized alongside private property, inheritance, and class society as a whole.
I’m genuinely sad about the amount of Marxists who do not understand the very root of historical materialism. You cannot be a Marxist if you do not accept the fact that the way humans produce their lives is the basis upon which social relations are formed, govern, and are reproduced. EVERYTHING else, sex, race, nationality etc is downstream of class for this very reason and you are not a Marxist if you can’t accept this.