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Book SynopsisFirst publication in English of a groundbreaking book of revolutionary queer theory.
Trade Review'An indispensable, pioneering example of the long, difficult effort to articulate queer struggle with anti-capitalist struggle' -- Kevin Floyd, author of The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism (University of Minnesota Press, 2009)
'Mieli was considerably ahead of his time... Towards a Gay Communism belongs to a visionary tradition of ecstatic utopianism... A fascinating document of its departed moment, but also as renewable inspiration for our contemporary desire to envision a future that is foreign to today' -- Tim Dean
Table of ContentsForeword: 'I Keep My Treasure in My Arse' by Tim Dean
Introduction by Massimo Prearo
Translator’s Preface by Evan Calder Williams
Preface
1. Homosexual Desire is Universal
2. Fire and Brimstone, or How Homosexuals Became Gay
3. Heterosexual Men, or Rather Closet Queens
4. Crime and Punishment
5. A Healthy Mind in a Perverse Body
6. Towards a Gay Communism
7. The End
Appendix A: Unpublished Preface to Homosexuality and Liberation by Mario Mieli (1980)
Appendix B: Translator’s additional note from Chapter 1
Index
