Feminist Political Economy
We live in a world dominated by capitalism and neoliberalism, even though there is ample proof of how harmful, exploitative, destructive, and unjust these systems are.
National governments, as well as international financial institutions, impose capitalist, and neoliberal policies on us on daily basis. They create institutions and practices built entirely in support to capitalist political economy and they measures our development and well-being by how much we produce, how much we consume, and the amount of money that circulates in our societies. We are told that no other systems are possible, and we are not supposed to question how wealth is created, how it is being distributed, to what end, or who it harms.
But WILPF’s vision of a permanent peace cannot be built within such a system. That is why WILPF uses feminist political economy analysis to:
- analyse and make known the systems of oppression in our societies that lead to precarity, inequality, exploitation, conflicts, and destruction;
- dismantle these systems and reimagine alternatives that build sustainable, feminist, demilitarised societies based on equality, justice, solidarity, and care.
Economic policies should be based on how we want our societies governed, and our resources distributed, as well as our relationship to the planet.
Nela Porobić Isaković, WILPF