What are communist views on homosexuality?

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But no I don’t think Communism doesn’t have much to say on this but the society might and Communism has been in some pretty wild card societies so that would explain a few misconceptions.
Communism is all about equality to your neighbour after all…

I do not believe it is looked upon as favorable because all people must be heteresexually involved and contribute to the good of the State by forming partnerships that lead to reproduction primarily. Obviously, gay people can be in marriages but the farce then would be broken.

What “Communism”? Theoretical? Marxist? N. Korean? Chinese? Former USSR?

Communism is an economic system, and therefore wouldn’t affect homosexuality at all. However, some traditionally Communist countries have cultural views on homosexuality.

This, this, and this might be of interest. I don’t necessarily espouse these views, I simply Googled the subject.

@laureth communism is an economic system, but Marx felt there was a need to a social conversion to a new type of man to go along with the economic system.

Marx and Engels were against it.

They are seen as commisexual.

In Cuba, Homosexuality was frowned upon Culturally and Politically persecuted during the early Revolutionary days, Allen Ginsberg was deported from Cuba for protesting against the Communist State’s official opposition to Homosexuality. Nowadays the State has taken steps to redress this problem and actually protects Homosexuals from discrimination. One could argue cynically that this new approach gave America one less weapon with which to berate the Cuban Communist regime. But i would say Communist states have had a mixed attitude toward homosexuality historically, unlike fascist ones.

Authoritarian communists tend to favor heterosexual relations only.

Sex is very personal for people, and throughout history demagogues have noticed that it’s quite easily to manipulate people by playing on their sexual anxieties. Among these, homophobia is probably to some extent innate – it likely takes a measure of moral reasoning to overcome that innate fear (at least in men).

For this reason, most authoritarian ideologies frown on what the believers see as sexual deviancy. That’s the case whether of Islamic fundamentalists, U.S. Christian supremacists, authoritarian socialists, or mundane things like the Republikan Party in the U.S. or most European nationalist parties.

@bolwerk sure, but nothing historically compares to the enthusiasm of Nazi Germany’s extermination of Homosexuals.

It was illegal in the Soviet Union. But not because of the communist ideology.

@mammal The Khmer Rouge was much more brutal to homosexuals.

@mammal: yeah, well, nazis probably took a lot of really bad ideas to a pretty extreme level. I prefer not to treat them as exemplars of anything because they really are kind of…exceptional. Of course, part of the reason for that is we’ve become so accustomed to thinking of nazi brutality as exceptional in every way that we become surprised when we identify nazi-like behavior in others.

Plus, all the groups I mentioned are still with us to some extent and in power somewhere.

@bolwerk I think Stanley Milgrim demonstrated just how unexceptional the Nazis were. It doesn’t take much.

@dpworkin: fair enough, though nobody else’s cruelty has become quite so archetypal. Maybe that’s a problem too.

@arpinum perhaps, but apparently the ideologically motivated enforced gender segregation actually encouraged homosexual activity during Pol Pot’s reign. i suspect German Efficiency and thoroughness would trump, the arbitrary activities of the Khmer Rouge. Even so, pretty miserable attitude all round. i’ve never understood Homosexuality as a Political threat.

They have to be homogeneous or else the relationships are not smiled upon.(Sarcasm)
Communism is an economic system, not about relationships so it is not relevant to the question. No country on Earth has ever really practiced TRUE communism.
They never told you that in school.
Russian ‘Communism’ was just applied Tsarism.
If you read Engels or Marx it is all about economics and how people can empower themselves and doesn’t delve into relationships.

@Kraken: Marxist theory has been extended to deal with relationships. Marxist theories about class translate easily to race and gender.

@bolwerk Show me an example please.

@Kraken: neomarxist feminism seems like the obvious one. Catharine MacKinnon may be a good example if you want a name.

But there’s nothing unusual about this. Marxism wouldn’t survive as a believable theory if it stayed in 1875.

@bolwerk You’ll have to ask Morpheus about any Neo theories as I am not versed in those so you could be right for all I know.