The Communist movement itself was by and large what we would consider "conservative" on sexual issues. The Kollontai period did not last long.
--- On Fri, 6/5/09, wrobert at uci.edu <wrobert at uci.edu> wrote:
> From: wrobert at uci.edu <wrobert at uci.edu>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Surrealists and homosexuality
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Friday, June 5, 2009, 11:59 AM
> The only surrealist that comes close
> to fascism is Salvador Dali, and that
> seemed to be primarily an act of opportunism and
> cynicism. (Breton
> referred to him as Avada Dollars.) For the most part, the
> surrealists were
> strongly linked to the left, connected loosely to the
> communist movement
> and anti-colonialism (which they probably had a stronger
> commitment to
> than the official parties. Breton wrote the intro to
> Cesaire's Discourse
> on Colonialism, for instance, and Leiris wrote the first
> major critique of
> european anthropology) robert wood
> >
> > Dennis Claxton wrote:
> >>
> >> I just found this and it's thrown me for a
> >> loop. There's doesn't seem to be room for
> interpretation here:
> >
> > I would link this with the _generally_ rightist
> tendency in so much of
> > modernism -- consider the number of the great
> modernists who were
> > overtly sympathetic to fascism.
> >
> > Carrol
> >
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