Sociologija 2022 Volume 64, Issue 3, Pages: 340-358
https://doi.org/10.2298/SOC2203340B
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Homosexuality, Queer and Marxism: An historical survey and a view from the (post)Yugoslav perspective
Bobičić Nađa (Univerzitet u Beogradu, Fakultet političkih nauka), nadja.bobicic@fpn.bg.ac.rs
The complex relationship between Queer and Marxism, and the related concepts
of gender and class, opression and exploatation, is the question that gets
raised time and again within progressive theories and movements. Which one
has the priority? Or, is the priority issue totally wrong, and one needs to
answer instead how these concepts mutually condition each other? The answers
to these questions also depend on how we conceive the multiple histories of
Queer Marxism. Therefore, this essay is divided into two parts. The first
part deals with the history of Queer Marxism in the West. The corpus of
works upon which this segment is based involves so far dominant approaches
to this history and works by authors like Mario Mieli and Guy Hocquenghem
from the second half of the 20th century, as well as the writings by one of
the founders of Queer Marxism, Peter Drucker, from the last decade. The
second part focuses on the present-day decolonial perspectives on Queer
Marxist history in the making, and in particular, previous studies of
homosexual history from the Yugoslav socialist period. In the end, we
provide a brief sketch of the field of post-Yugoslav Queer Marxism in the
making.
Keywords: Queer Marxism, history of homosexuality, (contra)revolution, decolonization, (post)Yugoslav perspective
Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 451-03-68/2022-14
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