Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 14:11:44 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Lenin, Zetkin, Marx on sex?


     In response to what is a Marxist view of sex, well
another strand that was arguably at most only vaguely 
Marxist but which also came out of the Frankfurt School
was the American "Freudian-Marxist" patch of the 60s as
exemplified by the now utterly passe Norman O. Brown and
his _Life Against Death_.  The line here, which a good
Catholic should like, was that capitalism is an anal complex.
This is the money/capital as symbolic feces which the 
anal Protestant capitalist "withholds."  This gets tangled
up with raps about Martin Luther's views of feces as sin, etc.
     BTW, Marx once famously compared Protestant capitalist
credit banking (in Calvinist Scotland especially) with "salvation
by faith" whereas the tendency of Catholic countries to like
gold standards was compared to "salvation by works."  Ah well,
I leave that to the further "Brownian motion" of interpretation.
Barkley Rosser (quack, quack)


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