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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------- http://www.kmf.org/malecki/ Read the book! Ha Ha Ha McNamara, Vietnam-My Bellybutton is my Crystalball! COCKROACH, a zine for poor and workingclass people NOW ON LINE --------------------------------------------------------
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