andie nachgeborenen wrote:
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> Socially determined
> traits are not easy to change. Capitalistic behavior
> is socially determined, but very hard to change.
"Hence, this doctrine necessarily arrives at dividing society into two parts, of which one is superior to society (in Robert Owen, for example)." Thesis on Feuerbach III
A major form of bourgeois art is devoted (how self-consciously I do not know) to dramatizing the ease with which the "superior part" of society can rise above the rest by transcending capitalism in their private life. That is the essential thrust, for example, of _Lost in Translation_, in which the central protagonists float easily above the "alienated" world about them, engendering similar illusions (or delusions) in the audience.
Perhaps the strained efforts to moralize without moralizing on kinky sex, etc. are just another manifestation of this desire to separate oneself from history, to have an "identity" untouched by surrounding corruption. The old comic line, "Stop the world, I want to get off," is not really very funny: it's bourgeois ideology at its worst.
It is really quite absurd to attempt to predict what sexual behavior would be like in post-capitalist society. Mao again, "Marxists have no crystal ball."
Carrol