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THE MEMOIRS OF A CAT
through the ownership of the means of production -- biological procreation in this case. The mother is the means of production. Before mankind comunitted the original sin of beginning the acqui.. sition of private property ; before the fall from Gract, not of Gol, bur of the natural freedo:n of the primitive, spontancous animal life ; before the generation of Ahankar or the birth of Avidya (if you prefer Hindu to Christian terminology), matriarcliy was the prevalent social system. Woman was not the property of man. She was a free agent, a human being, only more imporiant in the scheme of life by virtue of her greater share in the biological process of procrcation. Matriarchy represents the recognition of this greater importance of the female. The female owned herself as the means of biological production; consequently, she was the mentor of the life of her offsprings. Under such conditions, the male has the importance only of a subsidiary instrument of production, utilised as such by the sovereign female. Human society turned its back on the state of primitive freedom-of natural innocence-the moment it deposcd the Mother from her queenly throne, transformed her into a chattel, owned by the usurping male. Having voluntarily cmerged from the Golden Age of natural freedom, mankind plunged into the dark ages of saccrdotal patriarchal-feudal medievalism.
The European people eventually found their
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