Marx and Engels may have been homophobic, but they did write that people in a socialist world would probably have a completely different view of love than either of them. Moreover, they also wrote about gender roles being socially constructed in "On the origin of the family, Private Property, and the State".
Plus, I'm pretty sure Marx never wrote anything condemning "Bourgeois Identity Politics.
Even Lenin wrote that a socialist has to stand in solidarity with and fight for all oppressed people. These people love coopting actual revolutionaries and taking like half a sentence as emblematic of their whole work
There's a section in "Family, Private Property, and the State" where Engels refers to "the abominable crime of sodomy" so there is a valid case for calling him homophobic. However, that didn't affect any of their political projects and is more of a matter of what they personally thought. This is probably because they lived about 100 years before there was any kind of movement for gay people.
Also, that text you're talking about has Engels refer to Urning (a term for gay people) as Pederasts.
Here's a great summary of it: https://ufmrg.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/wolf-mrg-article-1.pdf
If anything, Marx would be really interesting in the criticism of the gender binary. He'd probably see them as the logical conclusions of his and related works, because they are.
Marx and Engels may have been homophobic, but they did write that people in a socialist world would probably have a completely different view of love than either of them. Moreover, they also wrote about gender roles being socially constructed in "On the origin of the family, Private Property, and the State".
Plus, I'm pretty sure Marx never wrote anything condemning "Bourgeois Identity Politics.
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Even Lenin wrote that a socialist has to stand in solidarity with and fight for all oppressed people. These people love coopting actual revolutionaries and taking like half a sentence as emblematic of their whole work
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There's a section in "Family, Private Property, and the State" where Engels refers to "the abominable crime of sodomy" so there is a valid case for calling him homophobic. However, that didn't affect any of their political projects and is more of a matter of what they personally thought. This is probably because they lived about 100 years before there was any kind of movement for gay people.
Also, that text you're talking about has Engels refer to Urning (a term for gay people) as Pederasts.
Here's a great summary of it: https://ufmrg.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/wolf-mrg-article-1.pdf
If anything, Marx would be really interesting in the criticism of the gender binary. He'd probably see them as the logical conclusions of his and related works, because they are.