[lbo-talk] Nepal gays and Maoists/Marxist Approach

ravi ravi at platosbeard.org
Sat Jan 20 19:03:54 PST 2007


At around 20/1/07 9:35 pm, Miles Jackson wrote:
>
> I just bristle when people use modern, historically produced
> categories (like those of sexual identity) and project them into the
> past to manufacture false universality.
>

This seems to beg the question. Either every category is historically produced and hence we either stop talking of them or we talk about them in the same way. Is it the point then that neither homosexuality nor heterosexuality are exclusively present in the historical record?

--ravi



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