MARIO MIELI’S PROPOSAL FOR A SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

Abstract

This text refers to the review of the book For a Transsexual Communism: Elements of a Homosexual Critique by the Italian Mario Mieli, released by Boitempo Publishing House last year, 2023. Initially, a brief presentation of the author's biography was made followed by a presentation of the work, which was divided into eight parts: a section called Premise, six chapters, and the End. Particular importance was given to the first chapter, as it is where Mieli presents the basis for his critique and his proposal for social transformation. The book was written from the theoretical perspective of Marxism and Freudian psychoanalysis, taking into account Mieli's experience in the homosexual movement. In very summary terms, Mieli criticizes capitalism and the way this system subjugates sexualities, such that social transformation involves sexual liberation through a return to polymorphous infantile transsexuality. For the author, the term "transsexual" does not have the contemporary meaning; it refers to the "potential erotic availability" present in children and shaped throughout the socialization process by the heterosexual "Norm". Mieli's transsexual thus constitutes a political ideal to be reclaimed, which even inspired the Brazilian title of the work.