Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and queer emancipation

Red Salute comrades and happy pride month to all of you. Pride month is a time when we queer people celebate our existence and protest against this cisheteronormative society that has subjugated us to imperialist capitalist oppression. Well at least that was what it started as. Pride month has now been hijacked by big corporations that capitalise on our struggle and divert us from the very aim with which pride began- Queer Liberation. The very first pride was in 1969. Commonly known as the Stonewall Riot it was a riot in protest against police brutality on queer people. As we can see pride itself started as a protest against the very thing it has become- bourgeois politics.

Now how do we achieve queer liberation? This is a burning question for queer people around the world. When we talk about achieving liberation from any form of exploitation we usually analyse how and why that said form of oppression and exploitation arose. Then we analyse how it can be eradicated. The theoretical attempts at queer liberation is broadly named “queer theory”.

“We believe that the main danger for the ICM regarding the queer question is dogmatic subjectivism, not revisionism. Those Parties and Organizations which have taken up post-modernist ideas in order to answerthe queer question belong to the right of the ICM, not the left. The Parties and Organizations of the left, however, generally take a dogmatist position and refuse to answer the question creatively, instead insisting upon old and prejudiced ideas which have circulated in the ICM for over a century, but which have never been justified on the basis of Marxism. We urge these comrades to rectify their subjectivist approach and be honest and dilligent in their study of the queer question on the
basis of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism-Gonzalo Thought. These comrades should
self-criticize for the mistakes made due to these old and incorrect Ideas.

This is not to discount the harmful influence of post-modernism, in particular the „queer theory“, with which we unfortunately share an important theoretical term, in the ICM. Some Parties and Organizations are indeed afflicted by these ideas, since they have chosen to take the queer petty-bourgeoisie‘s ideas as those of the proletariat, instead of attempting to answer the question on the basis of Marxism. As Chairman Mao teaches us, empiricism and dogmatism are two sides of the same, subjectivist coin, and this reflects Stalin‘s thesis on the twin character of right- and „left“-opportunism; both sexual metaphysics and post-modern „queer theory“ in the ICM effectively deny that Marxism is capable of answering the queer question, which denies the character of Marxism as an all-powerful science.” (Marxism and Queer Emancipation by Red Star- Switzerland, 2020)

As we can see dogmatism and post-modernism are the two shackles that have prevented a synthesis of a proper Marxist-Leninist-Maoist analysis of queer theory. For a proper MLM analysis of the same we need to separate ourselves from both the dogmatic left and right wings of the ICM that have till now attempted to make a coherent theory for queer emancipation. This small attempt at an essay should serve as a call for queer comrades around the globe to separate themselves from dogmatic Marxism and postmodern identity politics and synthesise a proper Marxist-Leninist-Maoist theory for queer emancipation and liberation.