Reviews for Challenges to communism

The average rating for Challenges to communism based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-09-25 00:00:00 Daniel Urban Mixed. Good points to consider about how capitalism fits morally (or doesn't) with Christianity, and does a decent enough job showing how it originated before Protestantism and how both major branches had similar effects. I don't have a problem with his anti-capitalist stance, as it is well-justified, but he doesn't seem to understand the Protestant point of view too well. Plus, it's a bit old-school in terms of style (in sureness of wording and in structure, plus some brief bad science right at the end) I would definitely recommend it, but keep a salt-shaker handy.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-06-06 00:00:00 Carlton Jarvis Somewhat too brief and definitely dated, but nonetheless an important text of socialist feminist theory. Offers an historical account of the rise of a separate sphere of personal life and family under capitalism. I really wish the author was much more critical of psychoanalysis. Zaretsky seems to think that that this form of thought (which he acknowledges is sexist, "bourgeois," and ahistorical) is necessary to account for the subjective, sexual, and interpersonal aspects of human life. But what he has essentially done is slot in psychoanalysis where FEMINISM properly belongs. The more (failed) efforts to reconcile Marxism and psychoanalysis I encounter, the more clearly I recognize that this is basically what is happening each time. A wholly historically materialist feminist (derived from the early Marx rather than from psychoanalysis) would be a much better starting point for considering these issues in a Marxist framework.