"A Theory of Justice" received criticism from several philosophers. Robert Nozick criticized Rawls' account of distributive justice in his defense of libertarianism, "Anarchy, State, and Utopia" (1974). Allan Bloom, writing in "American Political Science Review" in 1975, noted that "A Theory of Justice" had "attracted more attention in the Anglo-Saxon world than any work of its kind in a generation", attributing its popularity to its being "the most ambitious political project undertaken by a member of the school currently dominant in academic philosophy" and to Rawls' "radical egalitarian interpretation of liberal democracy." Bloom criticized Rawls for failing to account for the existence of natural right in his theory of justice and wrote that Rawls absolutizes social union as the ultimate goal which would conventionalize everything into artifice. Robert Paul Wolff criticized Rawls from a Marxist perspective in "Understanding Rawls: A Critique and Reconstruction of A Theory of Justice" (1977), arguing Rawls offers an apology for the status quo insofar as he constructs justice from existing practice and forecloses the possibility that there may be problems of injustice embedded in capitalist social relations, private property or the market economy.