9 - A.K. 47 - Make Way for Winged Eros: A Letter to Working Youth, Part I

Happy Spring! This is the first episode in a series of episodes that will feature Kristen R. Ghodsee's reading and discussion of Alexandra Kollontai's 1923 essay: "Make Way for Winged Eros: A Letter to Working Youth." In this essay, Kollontai works out her theories of how love and sexuality will be superior under socialism as compared to the bourgeois capitalist past. She provides an essential Marxist history of love and sex as ideals that change depending on how the ruling class uses ...