Marxist theory neglected childhood-family effects on political personality

Evidence

Marxists accepted Engels’s (1884/1972) low opinion of the bourgeois family (the Communist Manifesto called for its abolition), but unlike the Freudians they did not detail the baleful effects of the early childhood home on adult political personality. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 332

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sharply distinguishes Marxist from Freudian accounts of political personality formation — both environmentalist but differing entirely on developmental locus.
• XREF: connects to: Fromm linked proletarian psychological progress to declining paternal authority — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 551; Permissive upbringing and affluence sensitized young activists to achievement ideology’s costs — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2652