Develops a theory of political myth for leftist politics out of the biblical story of creation and the conquest of the Promised Land (the Bible from Genesis to Joshua), with particular attention to Marxist economics, psychoanalytic accounts of fantasy, an

Preface ix
Introduction 1
1. Toward a Theory of Political Myth 9
2. Women First? On the Legacy of "Primitive Communism" 36
3. The Fantasy of Myth 62
4. The Sacred Economy 89
5. Foreign Policy and the Fantasy of Israel in Australia 116
6. Christianity, Capitalism, and the Fantasy of Israel in the United States 144
7. Mythmaking for the Left 168
Conclusion 189
Appendix 193
Notes 213
Bibliography 227
Indexes 245