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R.M. Schultz’s incoherent diatribe against the International Socialist Organization (Letters, November 24) would not warrant a response, except for the chauvinistic remarks against gays tacked onto its postscript. For the record, we in the International Socialist Organization are quite proud supporters of gay and lesbian rights and liberation, having marched in Chicago’s Pride Parade each year for over a decade, supported numerous other progay activities, besides sponsoring our own meetings on the subject.
By contrast, when Joseph Stalin established his dictatorship over Russia in the late 1920s, purging and murdering tens of thousands of Bolsheviks and others in the process, he introduced a whole series of “bourgeois deviations”: slave labor camps, ethnic cleansing of non-Russian national minorities, anti-Semitism, and yes, prohibition and vicious persecution of homosexuality.
