The author articulates a Lacanian/Marxist critique of anti-patriarchal discourse. He asks whether contemporary feminist anti-patriarchy is the ideological symptom of a deeper historical impasse, brought about by capitalism, concerning the demise of the paternal function, castration, jouissance and its role in securing the subject’s accession to the symbolic order. If sexual aggression is conceived of as taking place whenever the subject signifies the lack of meaning at the heart of a symbolic order’s constitutive contradictions, then anti-patriarchy can be viewed yet as another resignification, a compromise solution, of the original contradiction inherent to capitalism—the commodification of the subject—where a cultural contest over surplus-jouissance mystifies and covers up as much as it doubles a more fundamental antagonism over surplus-value. Furthermore, the author suggests that it is often this perverse ambiguity regarding the paternal function, a psychic mechanism to deal with lack that Freud termed fetishist disavowal—an affirmation through denial of the primacy of the signifier over organic life in speaking subjects—that also plays out in a male subject’s relation to the feminized other. In examining a notorious case of femicide in Puerto Rico, the author sheds light on the connection between the material conditions imposed by colonial capitalism, and the reproduction of violent male subjectivities. Under the perverse staging of the ‘social contract’ structuring intersubjectivity in capitalist democracies, anti-patriarchal feminism becomes yet another name-of-the father, whose paradoxical function it is to ensure the continuation of the status quo while claiming to subvert it. In its extreme neoliberal variants, it partakes of an order of things involved in the formation of phallocratic fascisms.