When socialists clamor for "respectability," it shows the power of bourgeois ideology to infiltrate the revolutionary movement.
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The ruling class determines what is or what isn't respectable. If we're anti-capitalists, we'll never be respectable.
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Respectability is why so much of the socialist movement remained (and to some extent still is) stubbornly patriarchal, homophobic, etc.
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Emma Goldman was scolded by her comrades for her lectures on homosexuality.
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Anarchism, they said, was misunderstood enough without her treating such "unnatural" themes!
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Emma Goldman was light-years ahead of her time.
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