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> Subject: [lbo-talk] Re: Question about Marx and homosexuality
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> Dear List:
>
> B asks:
>
> > Did Marx ever speak specifically about homoseuxality
> and.or sex work [prostitution, for example]. If so, where?
>
> >From the LBO archives courtesy of Michael Pugliese:
>
> Quite a few nasty comments by Marx and Engels directed esp. at a
> fellow comrade in the First Int'l. castigated in terms quite juvenile. See
> the chapter, "Johann Baptist von Schweitzer: The Queer Marx Loved to Hate,
> " by Hubert Kennedy in, "Gay Men and the Sexual History of the Political
> Left, " ed. Gert Hekma, Harry Oosterhuis, and James Steakley (pp. 69-96).
> New York: Haworth Press, Harrington Park Press, 1995 [orig. Journal of
> Homosexuality, vol. 29(2/3)(4)]
> ABSTRACT. Despite his conviction on a morals charge involving a boy,
> the early German Social Democrat Johann Baptist von Schweitzer went on to
> have a successful political career. His life furnishes the context to
> present
> remarks by his political opponents Marx and Engels, which reveal their
> deep-seated homophobia. It is pointed out that this has been glossed over
> by
> the translations of the recently published Marx/Engels Collected Works.
>
> Brian Dauth
> Queer Buddhist Resister
>
>
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