--- Written by Dmitriy Remizov and translated from Russian original by Kevin Cain, leader of the "For Bolshevism" group in the UK
Being occupied by the theoretical developments of questions of policy and the economy, the Bolsheviks are somehow leaving a very important question out of their field of vision; the subject of morals and morals in the present conditions and in the long term, rarely touching the subject and then only partially. Unfortunately, representatives of semi-anarchist and anarchist organizations are occupying this vacuum with the corresponding to their ideology "solution to the question". Here is a quotation from a concept of action of the leftist radical association of young people (of Kharkov city): "Carry out a sexual and political revolution. Socialize and copulate. Sex is wonderful!"
The adherents of similar views - the apologists of the notorious "sexual revolution" and of "free sex" - even endeavor to convince people in the fact that these are truly leftist views, which oppose right-wing conservatism. The absurdity of such assertions is obvious. These views are not leftist: they are not socialist in general and not communist in particular. These views at their base are conformist, closely connected to those morals, and to be more accurate, those amoral views dominant in contemporary society, and are pro-bourgeois morals. Whoever doubts this, then I recommend that person read a little of Lenin’s works, who described the requirement for "free love" as a bourgeois requirement (Select. 5th publ., vol.49, pp.51-52, Russ. edition).
However, where on the part of the leftist radical movement did such views come from? Obviously, to some degree, they were called on by unlimited physiological needs and the resulting from them moral (amoral) directives of concrete individuals who entered the leftist movement. Nevertheless, to explain the reason for the sympathy of some "leftists" towards the notorious "sexual revolution", exclusively by their physiological needs would be probably incorrect. These sympathies have rational justification. One of them consists in the fact that the apology of "free sex" is to a considerable degree extended among a section of the leftists of the West, being sources of cultural- intellectual resources for the world revolutionary movement. The second substantiation is concluded in the fact that the "sexual revolution" is the first landmark, which replaced the supremacy of traditionalism, and was therefore "progressive".
In reality, by far not all "advanced" western leftists welcome the "sexual revolution". A large section of them come out on positions of proletarian ethics. Ideologically unripe and anarchist groups enter, as a rule as apologists of "free sex". However, revolutionaries relate negatively to the ideas of such "liberation". (I am not talking about Ulrich Mainkhof considering becoming a nun!) The assertion concerning the progressiveness of the "sexual revolution" does not stand up to criticism. The notorious "sexual revolution" is nothing other than the epoch of lewdness, which has already occurred in history. The arrival of an epoch of lewdness speaks of the relatively speedy end to the existing system and the victory of a new system accompanied by the end of the epoch of lewdness. The "fall in morals" in ancient Greece and Rome bear witness to the arrival of the crisis of antiquity.
The Middle Ages (feudalism) with Christian morals replaced antiquity, and placed terrestrial life as sinful, in contradiction to "spiritual" life. The arrival of a new epoch of lewdness in the period of the Renaissance already speaks about a crisis of the Middle Ages. The Reformation with its Puritanism (early capitalism) replaced the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The sequential epoch of lewdness, called the "sexual revolution", arrived in the XX century; it bears testimony to the crisis of capitalism, where a new system will replace it - the system of socialism- communism, whose victory will be simultaneous with the overcoming of the last epoch of lewdness.
Thus, the "sexual revolution" is a phenomenon of bourgeois culture, the cultural phenomenon of capitalism during the period of its decay. The "sexual revolution" is progressive only by the measure, that decaying capitalism is more progressive than the old capitalism. The "sexual revolution" is not a sprouting of a new system, but the decaying of the old system. Therefore, the supporters of social progress must come out with the propaganda of the new, and not with an apology of decay. Bolsheviks speak out against the apologists of "free sex", and against the making absolute of traditional (Christian) morals of echoing the times of the Middle Ages and early capitalism.
"Free sex" and traditional (Christian) morals have the right to exist at a minority level. However, if one of these cultural phenomena of capitalism still covers a large part of the population, then a struggle against it, is the sacred affair of Bolshevism. Bolsheviks place Leninist morals (Communist morals) in opposition to both bourgeois "sex" (lechery and lewdness when translated into the Russian language) and to Christian Platonism. Let us sum up. Those, who consider themselves as pseudo-leftist, Bolsheviks or Neo-Bolsheviks, must not relate themselves to questions of morals as secondary importance. In the program of revolutionary organizations, the position on the need for the suppression (overcoming) of the notorious "sexual revolution" must be written in.
The notorious "sexual revolution" will be conquered by a revolution of morals, which will become the part of a cultural revolution, the conditions for which, in turn, will be created by a social revolution!
