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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 written off; Charles Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin knew that these too are human, these too are a kind of human right, the source of our greatest pleasure as well as being a crucial stimulus for creativity.Were those communist leaders “flaneurs”? …

…Serov reported back to Khrushchev that, amazingly, the entire story of Stalin’s affair with a 13-year-old was true. Khrushchev showed it to the Politburo (including Stalin’s long-serving henchman Molotov), who all signed it and then filed it in the deepest recesses of the archives where it has remained until now. …Using all these and other archive documents, I constructed an astonishing picture of an unknown Stalin – one that painted him as a promiscuous and faithless serial seducer and libertine.The picture was confirmed by the reminiscences of villagers who lived in the isolated hamlet that was the 13-year-old girl’s home in Siberia. This, then, is the true story of the under-age affair – the most shocking of many conducted during Stalin’s mysterious life in the run-up to the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917…. Read More:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-454291/Stalin-lover-aged-13.html

Adorno puts it more clearly: “Totalitarianism and homosexuality belong together.” Gorky had already stated it yet more clearly in 1934:

In the land where the proletariat governs courageously and successfully, homosexuality, with its corrupting effect on the young, is considered a social crime punishable under the law. By contrast, in the “cultivated land” of the great philosophers, scholars and musicians, it is practiced freely and with impunity. There is already a sarcastic saying: “Destroy homosexuality and fascism will disappear.”…

…Marxism, in this mode of analysis, acts as the cure for both homosexuality and for fascism. For Gorky, this was no doubt due to a presumed direct relationship between the means of production and the superstructural effect of sexual expression. For Adorno, the mysterious relationship between fascism and homosexuality expressed the structure of much, if not all, of contemporary society.Read More:http://khrushchevinlove.wordpress.com/

…Lenin’s syphilis: An Israeli medical team thinks V. I. Lenin, the Soviet Union’s founder and pivotal Marxist thinker, died of syphilis. His death in 1924 at 53 led to questions like: Did he want Stalin to succeed him? Was Stalinism a fulfilment or betrayal of Leninism? Might socialism have evolved differently? And now: Why was the cause of death concealed?…

Robert Service, a Lenin biographer, argues, “They turned Lenin into an icon. They made out of him the Jesus Christ of the Soviet Union. They had to show he was pure in thought and in deed in his personal and political life.” …”You can’t have a symbol with syphilis,” says Mr. Service, “it would be seen as if all the theories of socialism and communism were based on a syphilitic.” Read More:http://www.gaudiyadiscussions.com/topic_2006.html

…But let me give the last word to Lenin’s loutish successor, Nikit

rushchev, who led the Soviet Union 34 years later. On a U.S. trip, he was taken to the Grand Canyon. A translator asked what it made him think of. “It makes me think of sex,” said Khrushchev, who had lots to ponder –Cold War, nuclear incineration, his own ouster — “everything makes me think about sex.” Read More:http://www.gaudiyadiscussions.com/topic_2006.html

Walter Benjamin:where are the conditions for revolution? In the changing of atti­tudes or of external circumstances? That is the cardinal question that determines the relation of politics to morality and cannot be glossed over. Surrealism has come ever closer to the Communist answer. And that means pessimism all along the line. Absolutely. Mistrust in the fate of literature, mistrust in the fate of freedom, mistrust in the fate of European humanity, but three times mistrust in all reconciliation: between classes, between nations, between individuals. And unlimited trust only in I. G. Farben and the peaceful perfection of the air force. But what now, what next? Read More:http://www.generation-online.org/c/fcsurrealism.htm