"The
bourgeois want art voluptuous and life ascetic; the reverse would be
better."- Adorno
The problem with all hitherto existing
Communism has been its rejection of sexuality. The USSR suffered
greatly because it allowed the morality of the bourgeoisie to
continue. So, as detailed by Wilhelm Reich, people continued to be
repressed, and in the case of women, oppressed. Alienation must be
combatted in all its forms, and one of these is a sexual alienation.
Women who enjoy sex are dismissed as sluts, and sex itself is shamed,
with the people who enjoy it being seen as impure. This can be seen
further in modern entertainment, where the genius and intellectual is
often depicted as asexual. The recent Sherlock, to
name one example. This is of course ludicrous when you consider how
natural sex is.
The
decadence of the bourgeoisie must be sublimated to the proletariat.
To
remedy this we need a Sexual Communism, similar to the liberal idea
of free love, but given a materialist basis, after all, what is more
materialist than sexual intercourse? I am not advocating a crude
polygamy. Marriage is of course an outdated institution but the way
love exists it seems evident right now at least that people will
continue to desire one mate, the important thing is the option
continue to there, and for the liberatory potential of sexual
communion. This will go a great deal further to creating a happy
society, and doing away with false consciousness.
