The Roots of Lesbian & Gay Oppression: A Marxist View

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By Bob McCubbin

This ground breaking pamphlet was originally published as the Gay Question in 1976, during the first flush of the modern lesbian and gay movement. Its unparalleled achievement was to offer an historical analysis of when, where, why and how lesbian and gay oppression developed.

That achievement still stands. With all that has happened sincd—the growth of the movement, victories and setbacks, the AIDS crisis—Bob McCubbin's contribution is as relevant today as ever.

In this slim volume, McCubbin shows that all oppression is rooted in the constraints of private property and the bonds of class society. He looks back to the matriarchy, the era before classes existed—and before homosexuality was stigmatized. He looks around to explain how capitalism today upholds and preserves lesbian and gay oppression along with racism and sexism. And he looks forward to socialist revolution in which liberation of all oppressed people, including lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people, in an indispensable condition for victory.

WW Publishers, First Edition 1976, Third Edition 1993, Soft Cover, 100pp, Selected Bibliography.

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