[lbo-talk] [lbo-talk] Socialism, asceticism, prudishness...

[Chris Doss]

>I remember Ernest Mandel lecturing during the perestroika days, and 
>contemptuously referring to the Soviets, "with their petit bourgeois 
>morality...."

It was a country of newly-urbanized peasants. What's he expect? Andy 
Warhol's Factory?

But an Italian journalist who'd traveled the world
>many times over said that the best sex he'd ever had was in Moscow & Rio 
>(and that was mid- or late-80s).
>
>Doug

Oh yeah.

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