White-supremacist capitalist patriarchy

White-supremacist capitalist patriarchy is a term coined by bell hooks in order to talk about the structures of domination that she claims are at work in the United States. The premise that informs this term is that different forms of oppression, the most prominent, according to hooks, being racism, sexism, and classist oppression, are all manifestations of a larger root cause. That root cause is the conception of power in society, the idea that might equals right, that the ability to dominate another through violence is somehow an imperative to do so.
The term white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy itself is a critique of this common conception of power, as well as an implicit claim that capitalism, racism, and patriarchy are interconnected forms of oppression and as such, must be reckoned with as whole rather than individually. hooks has also used the term imperialist as a modifier for this concept, connecting imperialism with racism, sexism, and capitalism.
Hooks refutes the idea of men as the "enemy" as untrue, ineffective, and a simplification of the complex societal issues at hand.

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