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  1. Communism and LGBTQ rights

    Communist attitudes towards LGBTQ rights have evolved radically in the 21st century. In the 19th and 20th century, communist parties and Marxist–Leninist states varied on LGBTQ rights; some Western and Eastern parties were among the first political parties to support LGBTQ rights, while others, especially the Soviet Union, some of its Eastern Bloc members, and the Communist East Asian nations harshly persecuted people of the LGBTQ community. Wikipedia

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  2. en.wikipedia.org

    The Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, volume two, is unequivocal on Marx and Engels view of homosexuality, stating: "There can be little doubt that, as far as they thought of the matter at all, Marx and Engels were personally homophobic, as shown by an acerbic 1869 exchange of letter on Jean Baptista von Schweitzer, a German socialist rival ...
  3. marxists.org

    As one important component of the process we have undertaken to formulate a new Draft Programme, our Party has taken up a critical examination of our previously held line on homosexuality.This process has included investigation, discussion and wrangling in our own ranks and among the masses-particularly revolutionary-minded youth, both "straight" and "gay," as well as long term ...
  4. en.wikipedia.org

    Both Marx and Engels have tangled with the idea of liberty pertaining to love and have made these ideas public. A small time after the death of Marx, Engels had said "that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes to the foreground." ... Homosexuality was legalized in several Eastern Bloc countries under ...
  5. isreview.org

    Volume 26 of the Marx-Engels Collected Works (MECW), published in 1990, translates the phrase as "the perversion of boy-love." A better translation would be "repugnant boy-love," but the MECW text is far truer to the original German than the West-Torr version. So Engels was criticizing the Greeks not for homosexuality, but for pederasty ...
  6. historicalmaterialism.org

    This archive piece from 2002 attempts to frame a Marxist agenda in the study of sexuality at the start of the 21st Century. By Paul Reynolds. Marxism might be regarded as having been conspicuously absent from the development of the study of sexuality and the politics of sexual identity and orientation since the 1970's. Central political influences and debates revolve around a diverse range ...
  7. of homosexuality. They feel homosexual acts among men as unclean because of its association with the excreta [Seward 1954:87]. Among the Keraki Indians of Southern New Guinea homosexuality is seen as a stage towards mature heterosexual relations. The Sambians may organise initiation ceremonies encouraging homo-sexuality among men [Herdt 1981 ...
  8. liberationschool.org

    A major breakthrough of the era came with the 1917 Russian Revolution, which de-criminalized homosexuality while granting divorce on demand, extending equal rights for women and legalizing abortion. In 1933, the Soviet government reintroduced laws against homosexuality, falsely describing it as a bourgeois decadence of the previous ruling class.
  9. marxismexplained.com

    The problem with Marxist theory, queer advocates countered, lay in its wilful myopia around issues of sexual identity, something mistakenly treated as epiphenomenal and irrelevant to the project of historical materialism. Such heterosexist presumptions, the argument ran, could only be critiqued from a position exterior to Marxism itself."
  10. marxists.org

    Marxist Writers (in mostly chronological order): On Homosexuality and the Penal Code by August Bebel - 1898. Pamphlets and Statements scans donated by the Riazanov Library Project. A revolutionary strategy for gay liberation — Democratic Socialist Party of Australia 1982. A Victory for Socialist Feminism — Freedom Socialist Party 1968
  11. Jun 29, 2023Abstract The decriminalisation of homosexuality was a measure originally adopted by the bourgeois revolutions, which was abandoned by the bourgeois parties as the rise of the labour movement led the bourgeoisie to seek a compromise with landlords, clergy and monarchy in different countries. The demand to decriminalise homosexuality was therefore taken over by the Marxist workers' parties ...

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