Johann Baptist von Schweitzer: the queer Marx loved to hate.
Despite his conviction on a morals charge involving a boy, the early German Social Democrat Johann Baptist von Schweitzer went on to have a successful political career. His life furnishes the context to present remarks by his political opponents Marx and Engels, which reveal their deep-seated homophobia. It is pointed out that this has been glossed over by the translations of the recently published Marx/Engels Collected Works. Some remarks on boy-love and anarchism are appended.
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San Francisco State University, CA 94114, USA.
D003148:Communism / Q000266:history*; D005858:Germany; D049672:History, 19th Century; D018451:Homosexuality, Male / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011057:Politics