Towards a Gay Communism: Elements of a Homosexual Critique - Softcover

Mieli, Mario

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745399517 ISBN 13: 9780745399515

Publisher: Pluto Press, 2018

Synopsis

Among the most important books ever to address the relationship between homosexuality, homophobia, and capitalism, Towards a Gay Communism is an early landmark of revolutionary queer theory. Decades later, Mario Mieli’s work continues to pose a radical challenge to today’s mainstream queer theory and politics. First published in English in 1980, this groundbreaking book is now available in an updated and unabridged English translation, with a new introduction by Massimo Prearo and a foreword by Tim Dean.
 
With extraordinary prescience, Mieli exposes how capitalism co-opts and markets “perversions.” In his view, the liberation of homosexual desire requires the emancipation of sexuality from both patriarchal sex roles and capital. Drawing heavily upon Marx and psychoanalysis to arrive at his highly original vision, Towards a Gay Communism continues to be essential reading for all who seek to understand the true meaning of sexual liberation under capitalism today.
 

About this title

About the Author:

Mario Mieli was a leading figure in the Italian gay movement of the 1970s. David Fernbach studied at London School of Economics. He is the editor of a three-volume 2010 edition of Marx’s Political Writings and author of The Spiral Path: A Gay Contribution to Human Survival.
 

Review:

"An indispensable, pioneering example of the long, difficult effort to articulate queer struggle with anti-capitalist struggle, and especially to understand the way in which sexuality can figure into the imagination of communism."  (Kevin Floyd, author of The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism)

About this edition

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0745399517
• ISBN 13: 9780745399515
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320