Gays and the counter revolution in Adolfo thought

[g.maclennan@xxxxxxxxxx (g.maclennan)]

>HA HA HA! That is so funny you pig!  Make us cry!  It was all you
>lame-asses  that went running off like Chiang Kai-shek fleeing
>from the mainland.  You have found a  refuge on your Chat List
>(Taiwan).  U
>
>Jay Miles

Comrades,

  When I read this sort of stuff I am reminded about Sartre's description of
hell as being other people.

So far in this great flame war the score stands at something like

                     Proyect 3  Olaechea 0


Chairman Adolfo is trying desperately to avoid answering in a concrete
fashion questions about the role of Stalin.  Godena, much the most
intelligent of this crew is rushing to the rescue, but his love of Uncle Joe
is such that he is unable to deal in a rational fashion with the evidence of
history.  Meanwhile Jay, Gina, Matt D.  keep up the endless cackle of the
jackal.  Mindless abuse from the fumbling wits and more and more obscure spite.

Olaechea as befits a scion of the aristocracy has either to be to the left
or the right of the working class.  For the moment his devotion to Gonzalo
thought makes him seem to be on the left.  But his is the socialism of the
aristocracy and the working class can see all too clearly thourgh his call
for sacrifice in the name of the nation.  a reading of the Manifesto would
help here and I will post.


Now I wish over the next few weeks to begin to characterise Maoism as a
strand of political thought.  Ken has already begun this process in an
excellent post.  Nothing he says will be replied to.  Olaechea specialises
in bombast not analysis.

I wish to fight though on the terrain of emancipation in the arena of
sexuality.  Particularly I wish once more to return to a question which
Chairman Adolfo has ducked. He has refused to answer, Phillip, Ken or Robert
in this field.  Why will he not outline and defend his party's postion on
gay liberation?

Amid the crowing over his "great victory" on this list,  Olaechea prolaimed
the blooming of a thousand flowers.  As long as they're not "pansies", it
seems.  The masses wouldn't like that. In his refusal to debate the question
of the emancipation of gays, Olaechea betrays that there  is little
difference in his stance from that of Clinton's "Don't Ask: Don't Tell"
policy on gays in the military.

I dare to say that this is also a subject  on which Fujimori and Olaechea
have identical views.   They probably both wish the whole topic would go
away.  But it won't.  Gays will get their  freedom and it will come from
their  own activity.  It will not be a gift from anyone, not even the
"masses".  But Adolfo as befits an aristocrat is a bit slow to understand
the notion of self emancipation.

Let us make some specific charges now.  Olaechea's and Godena's great God,
Stalin, criminalised homosexuality in Russia in 1934.  This is an historical
fact.  It also has to be understood as I argued in my post on Dimitrov, that
a counter revolution was under way in Russia.  Gays were attacked and women
were also dragged back into the role of the mother and wife.  Thus in 1936
abortion was also criminalised.  This all  links up to the Popular Front
strategy and the desperate desire of Stalin to suck  up to elements of the
bourgeoisie.  It also  marked  the end of Bolshevik support for the German
Gay Rights movement led by Magnus Hirschfeld.  Homosexuals were labelled as
"fascists" and rounded up.(See the archives for all the references: Dimitrov
and fighting Fascism)

We should also note in passing that the use of the epithet "fascist" to
caricature one's opponent has a long and ignoble pedigree in Stalinism.


So to conclude. Stalin's criminalisation of homosexulaity was a counter
revolutionary act.

Olaechea & others who refuse to condemn this act are also anti-gay and thus
counter revolutionary.

In anticipation of the chairman's silence I score this

            Gary 1 Olechea 0.


war

Gary
g.maclennan
school of media & journalism
qut




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