In a recent edition of Young Labor, an attempt was made to demolish the persuasiveness of Marx’s theories concerning the family. I will attempt to show that Ms. Herman’s article (1) confuses the views of Marx and Engels as being the same; and, (ii) cryptically analyses the faults of Marx and Engels from what is mysteriously called “the Marxist point of view”.
Many members of YLC committed themselves to helping distribute the National Citizen during the election campaign. When they saw that photograph (à la Mirror Bird) a number just plainly refused to distribute the paper.
Dr Cairns has been accused of obscurantism because his writings are supposed to be infected with distorting ideological conceptions;1 facts are the Ark of the Covenant, and Cairns evades the empirical evidence likely to contradict his views. It is the purpose of this paper to: