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She's saying social science makes us sexual conservatives?



Sounds like a cracy kook. I didn't read all of it though, short on time.

She unleashed the insults, referring to everyone as neurotic because we identify by our 'nation, religion, family, etc'. Sorry, but valuing various attributes of your personal context isn't a mental disability.

More than that, it betrays a certain elitism saying that "I'm not disabled like you are."

In fact, what is called neuroses in the quote Curse made are socially determined ideologies, i.e., they are modes of thought that come together in a more or less coherent world-view which arrises on the back of practical experience and social pressure.

We all live in a class society, and so none of us are free from these things completely, that I have to carry out Stalinist-style purges on my thoughts is testamony to this. To dismiss or denegrate socially determined world-views such as the above as neuroses also misses the point, however.

Being socially determined, they can only be eliminated through the elimination of class society. I don't know if the link says anything about that, but from the quote, it seems as if it would merely be a fig-leaf of academic elitism if it were mentioned.

In short, the ills that arise from the differentiation of society into classes can only be done away with through the destruction of that very same class society.

To call them neuroses implies a desire to treat them in the manner of a shrink, and not to do away with them through the practical life of the working class in struggle against the exploiters.



Engels said the above with regard to the state, and I feel it holds equally true for the rest of bourgeois culture.

Slow down slow down.

Now maybe I didn't read this right.

Did we... almost.. kinda.. just a little... agree?

The function of sexuality is reproduction. Socialist society would not change that, in fact I think it would try to encourage that. The oppression of sexual minorities is not the result of capitalism (bourgeoisie society), but of class-based society, as Gracchvs correctly stated above. The issue with capitalism is that it commodifies sexuality and pollutes culture with it; businesses will find niche markets for any form of sexual deviancy and exploit them for profit. This is all done in the name of profit, without any regard to the social consequences and the consequent degeneration and increasing sexualization of culture.

Socialist society would eliminate the oppression of sexual minorities from vestiges of traditional moralism, as consistent with notions of social equality. However, socialist society would not and should not promote increased sexuality, either for minority or for so-called "traditional" couples, for its own sake. Eroticism and sexuality has already helped dumb down the population and create a culture where almost everything has sexual undertones because capitalism lets culture run rampant. There is much cleaning up to do in that regard.

Capitalism does a good job of promoting such today, with negative effects on society.



Are you suggesting the state actively promote this view and promote sexual activity for non-reproductive purposes? eek

STI's ... ? question