Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 17:06:20 -0700
Subject: Re: Lenin, Zetkin, Marx on sex?


  Is there a distinctive Marxist/socialist position 
  on questions of sex?  (no double entendre 
  intended.)  I mean as a theoretical, not a 
  practical, matter?  I know there was something of 
  a custom among many earlier generations of 
  socialist theorists and activists to denigrate 
  marriage, and to support "free love" both as a 
  moral principle and as a personal lifestyle.  But 
  did that have any solid basis in Marxist or more 
  broadly socialist principles, or was it done 
  simply "epater la bourgeoisie", with no necessary 
  connection to socialism as such?
  
  Yours celibately,
  
  Peter
  pburns-AT-lmumail.lmu.edu


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