A review by arilaurel
Love of Worker Bees by Alexandra Kollontai

4.0

I think Kollontai's fiction is severely underrated, and outside of specific markers of the time (such as names and political events), her stories often feel quite modern. I love the themes of women counseling in one another, or when a woman begins to dislike her man for political over romantic reasons (ie, they become more bourgeois). While Kollontai was a member of the communist party, she wrote fiction to reach homemakers who did not have access to the same political power she did, and through her fiction she successfully explored contradictions between the feminism of the time and the communism of the time. But she did so without laying judgment in her female characters or the reader for choosing one or the other, which I find to be rather compassionate.