The androgyny theme was pushed mainly by Trotsky and Gnostic Bolsheviks. After the death of Lenin, Stalin seized control and put a stop to that particular part of the agenda. As well, he attempted to revive the family, not because he favored it but because the Soviet Union was going bankrupt and the State could not afford the cost of being ‘Mother-Father” State. For mainly these reasons, the Left recast itself as the New Left to show its’ hatred and rejection of Stalin.
There is no hyperbole, but there is your opinion, which is incorrect.
“There is no hyperbole, but there is your opinion, which is incorrect.”
No, what you confirmed about the “New Left” confirms what I said - people like Stalin (and his successors as well as the Chicoms and many others) did not “get the memo”.
They did not “buy” the purity of all the re-engineering ideas toward androgyny.
That’s what I meant about “hyperbole”. For many communists, the “androgynous” goals were overblown and NOT instituted so completely and universally as the fullness of the claims would have us believe.
As I said, that is not a warning against the general concern of the author, which should be focused on the modern manifestations and applications of the theme in today’s society, within which Marxism seems to be “more developed”, intellectually (does not need to take the “Marxist” label to profess a definite Marxist view), than it was a century ago.
Ah - already addressed.