Also what Foucault and the French intelligentsia thought of the family (a bourgeois structure that needed to be dismantled) is very different from the position of the French Communist Party, which, like all communist parties, was very conservative when it came to sex. (I am a French scholar, btw) There were women who were excommunicated …
Also what Foucault and the French intelligentsia thought of the family (a bourgeois structure that needed to be dismantled) is very different from the position of the French Communist Party, which, like all communist parties, was very conservative when it came to sex. (I am a French scholar, btw) There were women who were excommunicated from the French Communist Party for "moral reasons." In Communist Romania there was a concept called "the socialist morality" which meant that even divorce was frowned upon. None of this is known by American Marxists because their view of Marxism is completely divorced from the reality of it in former Communist countries.
Also what Foucault and the French intelligentsia thought of the family (a bourgeois structure that needed to be dismantled) is very different from the position of the French Communist Party, which, like all communist parties, was very conservative when it came to sex. (I am a French scholar, btw) There were women who were excommunicated from the French Communist Party for "moral reasons." In Communist Romania there was a concept called "the socialist morality" which meant that even divorce was frowned upon. None of this is known by American Marxists because their view of Marxism is completely divorced from the reality of it in former Communist countries.
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André Marty was quite a figure, yes. Nothing about gender or dismantling families.
Most of the traditional heroes in Communist countries were very macho.