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Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 12:39:42 +0100 (MET)
From: rolf.martens-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se (Rolf Martens)
Subject: Re: M-G: Re Rolf-Justin debate


John C.,

You wrote on 10.01:

>To those on the list following this debate:
>
>I've been reading the entries over the past 10 days with a mixture of 
>fascination and astonishment that someone could take Rolf Marten's 
>position on a "Marxism" list. Perhaps I shouldn't be so surprised. I 
>wanted to bring a pamphlet to the attention of others following the 
>discussion, especially after Vladimir Bilenkin raised the question of 
>a Marxist analysis.
>
>In 1976, Bob McCubbin wrote a pamphlet entitled "The Gay Question." 
>It was reissued in 1993 under the title, "The Roots of Lesbian and 
>Gay Oppression--A Marxist View," since the author did not want to 
>imply, however indirectly, that there was a question in the 
>progressive movement here about the legitimacy of the struggle for 
>lesbian and gay rights.

Please read first of all Engels basic work on these questions:
"The Origin of Private Property, the State and the Family". it's
on the Net Marx-Engels archive. Then - later again, on my part -
we could continue the discussion.

Incidentially, I'd like to take this opporpuinty to correct one
"typing error" in my last posting (for this time) on these matters,
under "Knabenliebe, Vlad....". I wrote that a certain big country
used to be "Puretanica" but was today more of a "Queeretanica".
It should read: "Puritanica" but today more of....

Rolf M.



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