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mao: ascetic revolutionary

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Dave

…The image Mao presented to his followers was that of a libidoless leader. He taught the youth of China that love…is a “psychosomatic activity which consumes energy and wastes time.”… …In both the West and in India there existed a … Continue reading →

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politics between the legs: the libidinal party

Posted on September 3, 2011 by Dave

…The link between sexuality and political revolution has always been a tenuous one. Nonetheless, the Lenin era tolerated a limited notion of equating liberation theory with sex as an antidote to repressive bourgeois capitalism and a working class protest- or … Continue reading →

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back in the u.s.s.r

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Dave

Is there a communist morality? It seems that for Communism, defining sexual morality was much more easier than enforcing it. Whether of the left or right, the dark, the sexual,and the immoral aspects of life cannot be simply hidden or … Continue reading →