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Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 11:03:18 +0200 (MET DST)
From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki)
Subject: Belgium! Marxism,cowardness or religion?


I find it extremely irritatating that the lists have been silent about one 
of the major events on the European working class scene the last week and 
the fact that 100,000 people will probably be demonstrating tomorrow and a 
good part of them being working class people in Belgium.

I thought that Marxists and Communists had the duty to tell the truth to the 
workers
or at least have a line when workers march in any issue. Especially this 
very inflamatory issue around the Pedophil murders and the surrounding events.

Is the silence about this on the list a sign of cowardness? Or that marxist 
and especially communist have nothing to say on the issue, or is everybody 
on the list all of a sudden got religous?

So to break the ice i will write a purposal for political agitation around 
the events in Belgium. (Pretty difficult to write a leaflet for the demo 
>from Sweden)

As Communists, as those that vy for the leadership of the workers movement 
it is our reponsibility and duty to reply to the present pedophil hysteria 
and obviouly in the long run anti working class, anti women, anti-sex that 
this question will raise from many quarters.

Naturally as Communists our condolences go out to the families involved of 
the murdered and abused children. But because a few people, obviously with 
very high connections in the political heirarchy have criminally used and 
murdered children in a particulallly brutal way and using sexual oppression 
in a particular bizzar form  in order to turn a buck in a very old 
capitalist enterprise of sex as a business does not mean that we are going 
to join in any general attack on sexual rights in general!

Naturally any capitalist enterprise uses people. But a worker in any 
industry must prostitute himself (sell his body) in order to make a buck in 
order to live. However he has his union or political party and the right to 
fight in his own interests. Wheras these children had no choice, but were 
induced by force and threats of real violence
including murder to use their bodies so that some greedy small capitalists 
with connections high up in the political super structure could turn a buck.

So obviously as communists we condemn these people responsible. We stand 
completely on the side of the children and the families in this case!

However this horrible, despicable and tragic incident can and should not be 
used by the working class in a general attack on freedom and especially 
sexual freedom which i am sure the church, the right wing as others purpose 
in their historical role of using this issue of sex to oppress poor and 
working class people.

For example this incident should not mean a general attack on sexual rights 
between consenting adults who can decide for themselves who and what sex 
they want to live with. It should be not used as and attack on the right to 
abortion. It should not be used in the present wave and general attack 
internationally by the christian fundementalists who want to take sexual 
liberation back to the middle ages and "iron chasity belts".

As Communists, as workers we are for the complete freedom of these kind of 
activities between consenting adults, including homosexual, by sexual or 
lesbian marriages. We are for a real pedological and free sexual education 
plan for all children in school starting in the 4th or 5th grade like in 
Scandinavia for example.

The reason we are for this is because we know that the bougeoisie and the 
church, and the monarchies before them used this issue in order to tie the 
working class in chains. The bougeois family and sex is and institution used 
to oppress the working class historically and tie it to the reactionary 
church and bougeois and monarchist societies.

Believe me all of the elegant barons and baronesses were getting laid any 
time and who with they wanted to despite all the rules which were imposed on 
the working class.

No to reactionary sex legislation of any kind because of this present incident.

Only the working class can guarantee full sexual liberation by taking power 
and introducing legislation that wrips down all of the archaic reactionary 
ideology produced by the church,bougeisie and monarchies.

This kind of stuff i think should be the general context of any kind of 
agitation in Belgium tomorrow at the big demonstration.

But the attitude of silence is shocking for me on all the lists calling 
themselves marxist or whatever.

Stop being cowards! Stop avoiding this issue! Or are you all a bunch of nuns 
or munks in deguide?

Bob Malecki

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