Buffalo Law Review Volume 41 Number 2 Article 3 4-1-1993 MacKinnon on Marx on Marriage and Morals: An Otsogistic Odyssey Marc Linder University of Iowa Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/buffalolawreview Part of the Law and Gender Commons, Law and Society Commons, and the Public Policy Commons Recommended Citation Marc Linder, MacKinnon on Marx on Marriage and Morals: An Otsogistic Odyssey, 41 Buff. L. Rev. 451 (1993). Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/buffalolawreview/vol41/iss2/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Journals at Digital Commons @ University at Buffalo School of Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Buffalo Law Review by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ University at Buffalo School of Law. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. MacKinnon on Marx on Marriage and Morals: An Otsogistic Odyssey' MARC LNDER* [Love, not... for the proletariat,but rather love for the sweetheart and in particularfor you, makes the man into a man again. 2 Karl Marx (age 38) to Jenny Marx (age 42) (his wife of thirteen years) I. MAcKINNON ON MARX 3 A. Say It Ain't So, Challey V aMarx was an MCP. Viewing the world through the distorting % or of his hatred for his mother, he looked down on women in general.4 Even on the eve of his fifieth birthday, five years after his mother's death, he was still mercilessly deriding her failure to have mastered spoken or written High German.' At the same time- 1868 was apparently a good year for misogyny-when he was at the height of his intellectual powers, without the excuse of youth or 1.