Volume 4 Issue 1 2015 classIcs In male studIes classes of evil: How the totalitarianisms of marxist thought Gave Birth to modern Feminism Neil Lyndon 5 artIcles Philosophy not Ideology: a response to Ward Jones and lindsay Kelland David Benatar 29 the effect of Father Involvement in child rearing on the Psychological Well-being of adolescents: Japan and the united states Taisuke Kume 38 NEW MALE STUDIES: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ~ ISSN 1839-7816 ~ VOL. 4, ISSUE 1, 2015, PP. 1-93 © 2015 AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MALE HEALTH AND STUDIES. PHoto Feature membrum virile Jan H. Andersen 52 memoIrs Young male spirituality Matthew Klem 59 a memoir: movement, Breakdown and the Body Duncan Alldridge 70 BooK reVIeW neil lyndon, Sexual Impolitics: Heresies on Sex, Gender and Feminism Paul Nathanson 89 NEW MALE STUDIES: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL (NMS) IS AN OPEN ACCESS ONLINE INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH AND DISCUSSION OF ISSUES FACING BOYS AND MEN WORLDWIDE. 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EDITORIAL BOARD Editor Miles Groth , PhD, Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Wagner College, Staten Island, New York, United States Executive Board John Ashfield , PhD, Director, Education and Clinical Practice, Australian Institute of Male Health and Studies, South Australia, Australia Dennis Gouws , PhD, Associate Professor of English, School of Arts, Sciences and Professional Studies, Springfield College, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA; Lecturer, English Department, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Con - necticut, United States Miles Groth , PhD, Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Wagner College, Staten Island, New York, United States Advisory Board Gerhard Amendt , PhD, Professor of Gender and Generation Research (Emeritus), founder and Director of the Insti - tute for Gender and Generation Research at the University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany John Archer , PhD, Professor and Research Coordinator, School of Psychology, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom Timothy M Baghurst , PhD, Assistant Professor of Kinesiology, Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, United States Roy F. Baumeister , PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States David Benatar , PhD, Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Philosophy Department at the University of Cape Town, University of Cape Town, South Africa Pelle Billing , MD, author, commentator, Malmö, Sweden Christopher Blazina, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Tennessee State University, United States Jon G. Bradley , PhD, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canda Dean Carson , PhD, Director of Research and Professor of Rural and Remote Research, Flinders University Rural Clinical School and Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, Australia Don Dutton , PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia Vancouver, B.C., Canada; Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University Warren Farrell , PhD, Independent Researcher, Mill Valley, CA, United States Craig Garfield , MD, MAPP, Departments of Pediatrics and Medical Social Science, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States Herb Goldberg , PhD, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, California State University, Los Angeles, United States Dennis Gosse , PhD, Co-Direcotr Northern Canadian Centre for Research in Education & the Arts (NORCCREA); Associate Professor, Schulich School of Education, Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario, Canada Robert Kenedy , PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Stephen Koch, author of The Modern Library Writer’s Workshop: A Guide to the Craft of Fiction, two novels, Night Watch and The Bachelor’s Bride, Stargazer: The Life, World and Films of Andy Warhol and Double Lives. He is cu - rator of the work of photographer Peter Hujar, United States Celia Lashlie , BA, Independent Researcher, Auckland, New Zealand Rafael Locke , PhD, Professor, Department of Perceptual Studies, School of Psychiatry, University of Virginia, Char - lottesville, Virginia, United States John Macdonald , PhD, Professor of Primary Health Care, School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, University of Western Sydney; Director Men’s Health Information & Resource Centre UWS; Visiting Professor of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University, Palestine Marty McKay , PhD, Clinical Psychologist, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Gary Misan , PhD, Associate Research Professor, University of South Australia, Centre for Rural Health and Com - munity Development; and Adjunct Associate Professor (Research), Spencer Gulf Rural Health School (SGRHS), University of South Australia at Whyalla, South Australia, Australia Steve Moxon , Independent Researcher and Author, Sheffield, United Kingdom Paul Nathanson , PhD, Researcher, Department of Religious Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Noel Richardson, PhD, Director, Centre for Men's Health, Institute of Technology, Carlow, Ireland, Chairman of the Men's Health Forum in Ireland, and Board Member of the European Men's Health Forum, Ireland Andrew Smiler , PhD, author, visiting Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC. Past Presi - dent of the Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity (SPSMM; APA Division 51) Jeanne Stolzer , PhD, Professor of Child and Adolescent Development at the University of Nebraska- Kearney; Ad - visory board member for the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology. Commissioner for the International Citizens Commission on Human Rights Lionel Tiger , PhD, Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology (Emeritus), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States Katherine Young , PhD, Professor of Religious Studies (Emeritus), McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Luigi Zoja , PhD, Independent scholar and author, Milan, Italy, member of the Centro Italiano di Psicologia Analitica Communities Advisory Board Greg Andresen , Editor of the Men’s Health Australia website and Senior Researcher for the One in Three Cam - paign supporting male victims of family violence, Australia Rick Belden , poet and author exploring men’s issues, masculine psychology, and recovery from abuse, Austin, TX, United States Dan Bloom , psychotherapist, fellow and past-president New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, New York, United States Mike Buchanan , BSc, Independent Researcher and Author, Bedford, United Kingdom Joseph Campo , Director, St. Francis House, Brooklyn, New York; Executive Producer, Grassroots Films Inc., New York, United States Jane Higgins, BSW, MSS, CEO of the Odyssey Program, an Australian national program providing in-school work - shops for adolescent boys, Australia Brian Jenkins , M. Math, Director, International Institute for Family Research, Toronto, ON, Canada Attila L. Vinczer , Senior Executive, Canadian Maltese Charitable Service Trust; Canadian Director of News and Ac - tivism, A Voice for Men; Senior Executive, Canada Court Watch; Author and Journalist; Advocate for the rights of children and families, MHRM; Canadian liaison of NCFM; CEO, Premier Canadian Mint; Human rights, medical, domestic violence, family and criminal law researcher, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada Assistant to the Editor K.C. Glover , BA, Independent Researcher, Brooklyn, New York, United States Classes of Evil: How the Totalitarianisms of Marxist Thought Gave Birth to Modern Feminism Neil lyNdoN In Chapter 3 of the author’s book No More Sex War , the origin of modern feminism is traced back to Marxism. It is a forensic, literary excavation of the origins of modern feminism buried in the classical prescriptions of the far Left, revealing the extent to which the thinking of 1960s feminists consciously imitated the class analysis of Marx and Engels. Keywords : feminism, Marxism, far Left, class struggle, patriarchy NEW MALE STUDIES: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ~ ISSN 1839-7816 ~ VOL. 4, ISSUE 1, 2015, PP. 5-28 © 2015 AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MALE HEALTH AND STUDIES. 6 Introduction Neil Lyndon wrote No More Sex War: The Failures of Feminism in 1991. It was published by Sinclair- Stevenson in 1992 (ISBN: 1 85619 191 5). The book was, claimed Lyndon, “the world’s first radical cri - tique of feminism from an egalitarian, progressive, non-sexist point of view.” In November 2014, Lyndon included the whole text of that book in a collection of writing on gender from 1990-2010 with the title Sexual Impolitics: Heresies on sex, gender and feminism pub - lished on Kindle ( http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sexual-Impolitics-Heresies-gender-feminism- ebook/dp/B00PBA6ZRQ/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1415374927&sr=8-5&keywords=neil+lyndon#read er_B00PBA6ZRQ ). Even though 22 years had elapsed, Lyndon said it was the first time his book had appeared as he meant it be read “unexpurgated, unbowdlerised, uncensored”. In the Introduction to Sexual Impolitics , Lyndon explains: Shortly before that book was about to be published, I wrote to