Marxism, the cure for homosexuality

Friday, 8 June 2012

"The (Cuban) leftist writer Samuel Feijóo led a campaign against homosexuals from the pages of the newspaper El Mundo and, after an extended trip to the Soviet Union, proclaimed that homosexuality no longer existed there, since socialism was able to cure social ills and deviant behaviour of that sort."
— Emilio Bejel

A poster a the entrance to the concentration camp set up in post-revolution Cuba was inspired by the Arbeit Macht Frei (Work Make You Free) signs at several National Socialist prisoner labour camps. The poster read: "Work Will Make You Men." The supposedly egalitarian Che, rounded up Cuba's homosexuals and put them in a concentration camp.

The following is an extract from the article Che Guevara: The Fish Die by the Mouth, by Humberto (Bert) Corzo, who was born in Cuba. The full article is linked below.

Che played a principal role in setting up Cuba's first labor camp in the Guanahacabibes region in western Cuba in 1960-1961, to confine people who had committed no crime punishable by law, revolutionary or otherwise. This "crimes" involved drinking, vagrancy, disrespect for authorities, laziness and playing loud music. Che defended that initiative in his own words: “We only send to Guanahacabibes those doubtful cases where we are not sure people should go to jail… people who have committed crimes against revolutionary morals, to a lesser or greater degree.... It is hard labor, not brute labor, rather the working conditions there are hard.”

“This camp was the precursor to the eventual systematic confinement, starting in 1965 in the province of Camagüey, of dissidents, homosexuals, Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, Afro-Cuban priests, and other such scum, under the banner of UMAP, Unidades Militares de Ayuda a la Producción, or Military Units to Help Production. Herded into buses and trucks, the “unfit” would be transported at gunpoint into concentration camps organized on the Guanahacabibes mold. Some would never return; others would be raped, beaten, or mutilated; and most would be traumatized for life, as Néstor Almendros's wrenching documentary Improper Conduct showed the world a couple of decades ago.”

Che's homophobia is expressed in the poster placed at the entrance to the forced labor camp, where homosexuals were confined, which read: “The work will make you men”', replica of the slogan “The work will make you free” used in the Nazi concentration camps. It intended to correct the homosexual behavior applying rigorous punishments with the intention of modifying this social deviation, which does not constitute a crime punishable by law.

In the 80s and 90s this non-judicial, forced confinement, was also applied to AIDS victims.

http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y09/enero09/23_O_3.html

1 comment:

Secular Historian7 February 2013 00:26

Yet, today, Cuba and all the so-called Marxist nations (except the Maoists) consider Homosexuality and altered sexuality to be normal.
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Friday, 8 June 2012

Marxism, the cure for homosexuality

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