Joanna
BklynMagus wrote:
>Dear List:
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>B asks:
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>>Did Marx ever speak specifically about homoseuxality
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>and.or sex work [prostitution, for example]. If so, where?
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>>From the LBO archives courtesy of Michael Pugliese:
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>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.
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>Brian Dauth
>Queer Buddhist Resister
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