Philosophy of Sexuality?

[Lenina Rosenweg]

Could there be such a thing as a Marxian philosophy of sex? Foucault has written three books on the "History of Sex" giving sort of post modernist view on human sexuality and social control but is there a specifically Marxist take on this?

[ChrisK]

Alexandra Kollontai supported free love back during the Russian Revolution and critiqued ideas like the nuclear family. Here's an article of her's:
http://marxists.org/archive/kollonta/1921/sex-class-struggle.htm

And a book called Red Love
http://marxists.org/archive/kollonta/red-love/index.htm

[BAM]

It's not Marxist per se, but Maurice Brinton's The Irrational In Politics (http://libcom.org/library/Irrational-in-politics-Maurice-Brinton) might be worth a look. His ideas are based in large part on those of Wilhelm Reich (capitalism requires the authoritarian family, sexual repression, etc.)

For what it's worth, I usually quite like Brinton, but this is probably his worst piece of writing and it has dated very badly.

[010]

Could there be such a thing as a Marxian philosophy of sex?

No, because Marxism isn't a philosophy. If there would be any Marxist take on human sexuality it would only be a historical/social and materialist approach, which philosophy is void of.

[redwasp]

peace,

engels' book on the origin of the family gives a marxist view of the history of patriarchal womens oppression. even though he frowns upon 'the unspeakable sin of the greeks' in this book, it remains a classic for all people who want to understand a marxist theory of gender liberation.

peace,

redwasp