According to Marxist Historical Materialism, humans were relatively egalitarian in prehistoric times. In the neolithic times, agriculture( farming, herding) created a surplus and in guarding that surplus classes developed which led to gender oppression with continues to this day. According to this guy steven goldberg patriarchy is a central innate element of humanity due to testosterone or whatever. How do we as Marxists respond to theories like this?
How does he respond to societies that didn’t have patriarchy as a central element—which we (at least at this point) seem to have extensive anthropological evidence for? Seems like that’s the end of it—unless he just does a huge amount of crude historical revisionism, I do not know how you could possibly make his argument with a straight face. The eternal patriarchy is definitely a common appeal to nature in 2022, but not an intellectual position anyone who is taken seriously consciously holds.