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Title: The Issue of Sex Author: Hertha Barwich Date: 1929 Language: en Topics: education, marriage, syndicalism Source: Retrieved on 10th September 2021 from https://forgottenanarchism.wordpress.com/2015/05/02/the-issue-of-sex-by-hertha-barwich/ Notes: Published in Der Frauen-Bund.
At the centre of a truly socialist education will be sexual education,
the prevention of sexual debauchery and the development of sensual love.
On all these issues, bourgeois education answers with a great silence.
The attitude towards gender in the current social order has until now
prevented the development of any more emancipated ideas. Women are in
every relationship subservient to men. In contrast, men are the lords
and owners of women. In this sense, bourgeois education works towards
making girls good housewives and maids, and to educate me to be real
men. Girls’ games, girls’ company and girls’ tasks are degrading for
them. Consciously and unconsciously, the ruling instinct over the female
sex is developed in boys. With such an education, marriage can have no
meaning for men, they look for their satisfaction in alcohol and
brothels. Capitalist exploitation has destroyed not only proletarian
marriage, but also petty bourgeois marriage. Socialism demands the
equality of the sexes, and workers understand this demand the fastest.
Necessity and class interest force them to recognise women as colleagues
and comrades. Such comradeship will only be possible if we totally get
rid of the bourgeois moral lies about intercourse. The liberation of
sexual life holds the danger of unrestrained intercourse. We don’t want
to and can’t fight this danger with another system of constraint,
complete education will prevent any misunderstanding and any wandering
off from the natural way of morality. We refuse the current bourgeois
concepts of morality. Natural morality is an egalitarian relationship
between the sexes which finds its expression in companionate marriage.
Maturing youths find in the anarcho-syndicalist youth movement a
community of joyous comradeship, ideal enthusiasm, and serious work. The
blooms which flourish in a decaying society cannot thrive in them. The
class-struggle organisation is the best system of defence against
youthful excesses. The love between man and wife is no longer a
forbidden fruit for the socialist youth, it is the fulfilment of true
comradeship. The solution to the issue of sex is true community between
the sexes on the same work, the same worries, the same fights, joys and
victories. Marriage is no longer legally-sanctioned prostitution, but a
bond of friendship which is agreed upon with full conscience. In the
anarcho-syndicalist youth movement, young men and women find the way to
class struggle, to the liberation of their minds and the solution to the
issue of sex. Through social revolution, in which men and women stand
side by side in true comradeship, we will achieve the economic, moral
and mental liberation of everyone and start to build a world of freedom,
love and prosperity in common solidarity.