Wheelchairmaniacal wrote:The Bolshevik government redefined marriage to include more than just the man/woman variety. In a surprising number of ways they were a progressive moral force, as opposed to some crazy 'lets make everyone the same' mentality you are supporting.
Really its that kind of strict moral conservatism that makes communists look like anti-progressives.
I'd say a lot of people don't really understand the point of communism. Maybe it's the pervasive stereotype of "Stalinism" that leads kids to this misunderstanding. Maybe they see "communism" as a way to finally take revenge on our permissive, sexually deviant society full of homosexuals and "loose women", and also to force people into general submission to the caricatured all-powerful Orwellian totalitarian state. I would chalk this down to misinformation on communism in general and to the personal frustrations of these people in equal measure. Others might be attracted to fascism or religious fundamentalism. These people are most likely to become third-positionist types of some sort, too.
I can't blame these people for their own frustrations in life, but I'd appreciate it if they didn't drag the rest of us communists down with them. At least, I'm pretty sure that this was not what Marx was thinking of while he was screwing his maid, or Lenin when, almost a 100 years ago, he legalised stuff that is still forbidden or at least frowned upon in many western societies in 2010.
As for incest, it's certainly not wincest, but it doesn't necessarily have to include procreation either. It would be incredibly difficult to implement laws against it in practice, and it would be quite oppressive to people who may be doing things that I personally disapprove of, but which aren't necessarily "wrong" otherwise. Problems of abuse and inbreeding should be treated as what they are, rather than used as an excuse for oppressing people with "deviant" sexual behaviour.