British Tankies are sadly highly transphobic
This was in Belfast where CPI activists joined in a protest against TERFs and the far right. We were met with CPB members who were very happy to see a transpositive attitude and shared our political resolution with them.
The real stinker happened in Dublin, TERFs were observed demanding action from the CPB to correct their Irish subortinates. Colonialism has never left the minds of these Brits.
It’s not their fault, I stg terf island must poison your brain with transphobia
Did You Know?:
The first decriminalization of homosexuality in an industrialized nation occurred when Lenin legislated it in the newly formed Soviet Union. Stalin eventually rolled it back unfortunately but for a bit more than a decade you could essentially be freely homosexual in the same time period that you could watch a new black and white movie.
EDIT: Thanks to a heads-up from one of our comrades, I realized that one of my statements was unintentionally reactionary. It has since been removed and they have my thanks.
when Lenin legislated
I get why people talk about this in this way, but I think it’s a mistake to ascribe intent to this when the decriminalization was a by product of doing away with the Tsarist legal code entirely. There are other instances of socialist states actively pursuing a policy in the direction of queer liberation (earlier and more comprehensive than even modern Western states), such as the GDR in the 80’s and Cuba with their new constitution, but unfortunately the Soviet Union was not one of them.
Yeah good read on this but it should be said the period of time where being gay was decriminalized in the USSR did last about a decade, and in that time period LGBT+ people where actually left alone for the most part. I always read this time period of one of knowing tolerance by the upper soviet leadership, as they likely did not act on it because they actually did want lgbt issues to be decriminalized. I am making this assumption due to the slow pace they moved on this topic and that they where an educated class who could read; it was them having to contend with Stalin being a orthdox christian (he was literally born in a manger to a priests family) and 99% of Russia also being this, they had to make populist concessions in the 30s in order to recover from famines.
I traced Russias lgbt+ phobic outlook to the implementation of the Tsar; prior to this in pre-monarchy Russia it was noted by many historians and accounts that the Russian people where openly gay, lesbian and poly; it was the monarchy that implemented orthodox theocratic teachings in order to secure better trade deals with the christian west, and then beaten into them over 500 years.
I know Stalin was Christian at one point, even studying at a seminary to become a priest, but was he still Christian by the time he was general secretary?
I keep seeing the argument that the USSR decriminalizing homosexuality as being a by-product of getting rid of the Tsarist legal system, and while I could very well be wrong, and that may have played a part, I don’t buy it at face value. The USSR didn’t get rid of every single Tsarist vestige for the sake of it, such as the reprisal of the Gulag system. I think decriminalizing homosexuality was a concerted effort.
“But dead Nazis have a cost”
I cannot wrap my head around this, comrade. Stalin being a strong military leader doesn’t necessitate his occasionally reactionary view on sexuality and gender. Of course we should all uphold Stalin’s legacy, but that doesn’t mean making excuses for him when he’s wrong.
This is fair, comrade, and an opportunity for me to purge my own internal reactionary. I think I was perhaps hasty in my writing trying to recognize the achievements of Lenin that I glossed over the failings of Stalin and the larger recognition that sometimes in times of crisis we’re more forgiving of flaws that we would hold to greater account in times of peace.
in the same time period that you could watch a new black and white movie.
that’s every decade since the invention of black and white movies
I’ve seen said (but have not investigated whatsoever so please take this with a grain of salt) that although it was criminalized it was rarely enforced because there was a duty to demonstrate the social harm of a specific action and that was rarely “met” in court or something to that effect. Is there any truth in this or is it just cope?
when fascists say “so and so revolutionary movement will have you removed imprisoned and killed” they’re not doing so out of concern. it’s a mutually-suicidal curse directed outwards by those who will never be happy, and don’t want anybody else to realize their true potential either.
Libs say this sort of stuff as well, because they can’t accept that there are people to the left of them. It actually happened on this very website when a lib lemmy instance we were federated with accused us of being fake queers, because many of us are both trans and tankies.
Upvote for not only a poignant statement comrade, but also because your username appears to be a reference to a great book by Kristen Ghodsee, yes?
Oh hey, I think that’s the communist party of Ireland
