A new episode of my podcast series, produced by Possibly Correct, Toronto, Ontario.
Title: Your Sex Life under Socialism
Topics and times: Definition of socialism // Robert Heilbroner and top-down control // From old-style communalism to individualism in sex and love // New-style communalism // Sex and reproduction in the Soviet Union: Alexandra Kollontai // Quantity and Quality of Sexuality // The National Socialists and Dr. Franz Hamburger // Fellow-travelers, West and further East.
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Transcription: Available to subscribers at my thinkspot page.
Sources:
- Friedrich Engels, Letter to Karl Kautsky, February 1, 1881.
- Franz Hamburger, “National-Socialism and Medicine”. Hamburger’s address to the German medical profession. Translated from Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift, 1939, No. 6. Readings on Fascism and National Socialism, edited by Alan Swallow et al., Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado.
- Heilbroner, Robert. What Socialism Is. Dissent, 1978. Note that just before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Heilbroner wrote that while he still thought socialism was morally superior to capitalism, it was nonetheless inferior at economic production (The New Yorker, 1989).
- Alexandra Kollontai, Theses on Communist Morality in the Sphere of Marital Relations, first published in Kommunistka, No. 12 (1921). Also in Alexandra Kollontai, Selected Writings (Allison & Busby, 1977), translated by Alix Holt.
- Wilhelm Reich, “Politicizing the Sexual Problems of Youth” (1932). In The Weimar Republic Sourcebook, p. 323.
- Matt Ridley, The WESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT’S ROLE IN CHINA’S ONE-CHILD POLICY, 2015.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, early 1590s.
Related:
- In Chapter 4 [pdf] of Explaining Postmodernism, I discuss the lively nineteenth-century debate between “right” collectivists and “left” collectivists over who had the better right to call themselves “socialists.”
- My treatment of National Socialist medicine, sex, family, and eugenic policies is in Section 16 of Nietzsche and the Nazis
- The Sexual One Percent. For those who object to unequal wealth distribution.
- “The population evils of capitalism.”
- Soviets and Nazis — which were worse?
- Quotations from leading Nazi intellectuals and activists on socialism and fascism