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Why Lenin Was A Queer Man: Re-Evaluating Our Common Misconceptions About The Sexual Identity Of History's Greatest Revolutionary
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Reason One:
Lenin & his wife Nadezhda Krupskaya famously practiced ethical nonmanogamy, although this fact is often smeared by bourgeois Western academics as claiming that he was a "serial philanderer" who had "many affairs".
Lenin & his wife Nadezhda Krupskaya famously practiced ethical nonmanogamy, although this fact is often smeared by bourgeois Western academics as claiming that he was a "serial philanderer" who had "many affairs".
In reality, as committed revolutionaries & believers in Kollonntai's "Free Love", Lenin & Krupskaya both mutually agreed to see other people when they were engaged in party organizing, hundreds of miles apart from one another.
As an openly polyamorous couple during the reactionary sexual mores of their historical epoch, Mr. & Mrs. Lenin showed their willingness to practice sexually transgressive actions in defiance of the cishetpatriarchal hegemony of Tsarist Russia
RazĂłn Dos:
Lenin was a committed ally of women & a proponent of their full liberation from their enslavement both to their husbands & to the bourgeois patriarchy.
Lenin was a committed ally of women & a proponent of their full liberation from their enslavement both to their husbands & to the bourgeois patriarchy.
At a time when contemporary "socialist" revolutionaries like Emma Goldman or Kropotkin were calling for enforced birth control to curb the population growth of the proletariat, Lenin fully rejected this eugenicist dogma & instead explicitly sought to establish a workers state...
that would both provide communal childcare & the economic security to raise a family, as well as make abortion fully legal & readily accessible to all who requested it. His goal was to build a society in which childbearing carried zero socioeconomic coercion, for the 1st time...
allowing women to truly give their fully informed consent as to whether or not they actually wanted to raise a family.
And all this was at a time when the average Russian male only cared about women insofar as they could provide sexual pleasure or economic value to him. Lenin instead rejected toxic masculinity & became a better ally of women than even some contemporary feminists were!
Grund Drei:
Despite the undeniable reality that at only 5'5" Lenin was a manlet, he never developed a Napoleon complex or became a heightcel. He also went fully bald at only age 20, yet despite both of these physical deformities he never blamed the women who rejected him for it.
Despite the undeniable reality that at only 5'5" Lenin was a manlet, he never developed a Napoleon complex or became a heightcel. He also went fully bald at only age 20, yet despite both of these physical deformities he never blamed the women who rejected him for it.
Rather than writing some Bakunin-esque screed about "the inherent deviancy of the female mind", Lenin instead focused on improving his own self-confidence by becoming a passionate fan of weightlifting & overcoming social anxiety through exposure therapy like public oration.
Once again, Lenin rejected the cisheteronormativity of his time, choosing to once again respect women's bodily autonomy when the easiest thing to do would be to lapse into inceldom.
Reason Four:
Despite the homosexual undertones & phallic imagery of the game, Lenin still publicly chose to help normalize chess playing in the homophobic atmosphere of Tsarist Russia. By demonstrating that, despite the LGBT demographics of the community, chess players were...
Despite the homosexual undertones & phallic imagery of the game, Lenin still publicly chose to help normalize chess playing in the homophobic atmosphere of Tsarist Russia. By demonstrating that, despite the LGBT demographics of the community, chess players were...
still just normal people the same as anyone else, Lenin helped to de-stigmatize the gay community within the Bolshevik party, an event that only happened in the Western bourgeois republics when people's family members began dying en masse from AIDS.
By transgressing society's sexual norms over & over throughout his entire revolutionary career, its undeniable that Lenin wasn't merely an *ally* of women or the LGBT community, but rather a proud & fully open queer man in his own right!
