No wonder the program doesn’t work.

I can’t watch the video here at work, so maybe it would be clearer if I could, but I really don’t get the “candy” quote. Is same-sex attraction/gay sex supposed to be the candy?

The woman in the video seems to be using it as a metaphor for the program. She means a person can trade in his or her homosexuality (the candy) for heterosexuality (chocolate).

The Michael Jackson doll is especially creepy given what we know about his pedophilia now.

Much like this game I did in fact play as a child.

Obviously, you avoided the wrong toys.

Ben D.
May 20, 2008 at 2:36 pm

Togolosh, thats a good point. I didn’t know Commies were homophobic, one thinks they would be progressive in that area if for nothing else than to piss off the Church. I guess cultural habits die hard.

As someone who finds Marxist economic, political, and social theory lucid and much superior to mainstream academic alternatives, I’ve always been distressed at the abysmal track record of actual revolutionary Marxist regimes in matters of sexuality and gender in general.

The hell of it is, the early Bolshevik period in the USSR did–foster is too strong a word, but at least tolerate–some gender radicalism. Unforetunately I’m not aware of any such regimes anywhere that were ever even tolerant of gayness, let alone queer-positive.

In Russia and Cuba I believe gayness was associated, officially, with bourgeois degeneracy.

OTOH one of the key founders of the homosexual rights advocacy group in the USA, the Mattachine Society, was a member of the CP-USA. He felt gay liberation followed logically from revolutionary Marxism, and I of course agree.

Unfortunately neither the CP-USA (and this was after Stalin’s death, in the late 1950s) nor the non-Communist Matchines agreed. He was forced out of both organizations.

Policy towards GLBT people remains one of the wost features of Castro’s Cuba today.

And I gather that Chavez in Venezuela is no friend of queer folk either, alas.

I’m so confused.

Bear in mind that the part of Europe that was behind the iron curtain missed out on all the big social reforms of the 60s, 70s, and 80s. The Communists were quite bigoted towards homosexuals in the USSR, and I imagine Poland was no different.