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It's not just that, they support existing regimes that are known to be queerphobic. China is having its own trans panic right now, and their government is contributing to it, so when people support states like that it's not just that they don't support queer liberation, but it seems like they specifically want queer people gone entirely. It seems like they agree with fascists when it comes to queer people.

There is nothing about the core ideology of Marxism Leninism that is opposed to queer rights. Actually there are a lot of queer people in the community at large who are communist and findable on YouTube or Lemmy. I'm one of them.

I'm not here to teach everything and I trust you know enough to be able to look up more as you wish. If you want an example of an ML nation that is pro queer look up the Cuba Family Code changes made recently. They're among the most progressive in the world and help to guarente rights for trans people, lgbt, and more. Additionally China has a large trans healthcare clinic first of its kind recently opened in Beijing and a well known trans TV host. Vietnam also has a vibrant lgbt community and even in North Korea homosexuality and cross dressing to my research are not criminalized despite lacking public interest/support.

The days of old are over and new communist nations can and are doing better to ditch reactionary tendencies especially around queer rights.

Join the stupid phone meetings any American Communist party has. You will see that a strongly disproportionate amount are gay or trans. I'm gay and nonbinary. My husband is gay. Half my local Communists are lgbt. Leftists in general are often lgbt.

Tankies tend to be social outcasts and so do lgbt people. That might be part of the connection.

wait, so you’re saying that even the fascist states (e.g. the nazis) were only trying to defend themselves against foreign powers trying to destabilize their state? or am i misinterpreting you?

I was referencing socialist states, but yes they do both resist political pressure. The difference is fascist states are a minority class resisting domestic dissent by the majority class. It's a forced ideology undermining a natural uprising, which is why it draws so many parallels with socialism in its revolutionary anti-establishment sentiment but is as a result lacking in internal consistency. In other words it's reactionary.

The post WW1 German government was resisting political pressure from socialist factions that were especially dominant in Germany due to the aftermath of the war. There was constant turmoil including insurgencies, massacres, executions and of course the massive surge of the KPD into electoral politics that lead capitalists to fund the staunchly anti-communist Nazi party (read "Who Financed Hitler" by James Pool) and subsequently purged communist thought.

a state doesn’t have a mind of its own, it consists of people

The state is the monopoly of power in the hands of one class; they're a state because the interests of the people in it align. Though it can, the state doesn't have to be a conspiracy. What capitalists believe or think about on a personal level is irrelevant, their material interests lead them to support the same thing.

those people are often power-hungry

They're power hungry, so they appeal to the interests of the most powerless class in defiance of the most powerful class, only to then alienate the powerless class as well? They're power hungry so they isolate their state from the world stage and reduce themselves to running an impoverished nation? I think your view of 'authoritarianism' is shaped by the misconceptions about the cause of Nazi Germany addressed above.

Even if we assume this is true, it's not a useful observation. It avoids pinpointing the conditions we need to address. There isn't much we can do about an 'evil' dormant in an undefined subset of the population. You're just fingerpointing, which is a primer for fascism.

by placing a powerful leader without accountability on the top you have undermined the whole concept

First, there's no lack of accountability. Socialist parties consist of MILLIONS in members and hundreds to thousands in parliament, which is much larger than all parties in liberal democracies combined. Socialist countries don't have singular dictators but operate through massive debate and cooperation. What they lack are people promoting goals contrary to socialism (and yes this does lead to wrongful punishment, that's par for the course given the chaotic nature of covert war). Accountability and dissent are WILDLY different things that can't be conflated. Every state is accountable to the material interests it serves.

Second, the concept of socialism is abolition of the state. There's no 'rule' or empirical justification prescribing socialism to be an erratic transition rather than gradual. The point of communism isn't just electing different leaders. Where you think socialism must come from tolerance to an undefined time of unchecked capitalist rule before an abstract 'mass revolution' ushers in socialism, communists simply think socialism must come from intolerance to capitalist rule but concrete tolerance to state functions that can resist capitalist subjugation until they aren't needed anymore.

By tolerating the bureaucracy of capitalism for the sake of awaiting 'principled' instantaneous global revolution, you're already admitting you're willing to compromise for the goal of socialism. So it doesn't make sense to pretend your aversion to socialist states has anything to do with principled opposition to a similar bureaucratic structure serving the working class(by providing housing, education, healthcare and food) instead of elites.

You can believe Leninism is a flawed way to achieve socialism and maybe even doomed to fail, but if you can't even appreciate it as better than capitalism, you're just not a socialist.

maybe cia actions were what caused them to be authoritarian, but that doesn’t excuse their actions in any way. the moment they became authoritarian, cia had already defeated socialism

'Authoritarian' isn't a thing, it's just a state, with just as much power as before, at war. I don't understand what you mean by 'excusing actions' when you admit it's caused by US intervention. You're saying their actions aren't excusable while personally providing the excuse.

And what's the point in a 'principled stance' when this stance consists of letting your own people be massacred and condemning billions of people to extreme poverty? What's the point of 'principles' when it consists of tolerating the mass genocide of the entire planet? You tolerate the 'peaceful' because dominant tyranny of capitalism, but socialism must be flawless and overcome hurdles with complete perfection no matter the efficacy.

You don't seem to appreciate that the struggle for socialism is a war, not civil debate. You demand people meet capitalist artillery fire with a cool headed essay recital and wonder why socialism is nowhere to be found.

You should be more appreciative... the other option is to call you chekists.

I'd rather just be nice to people. I'm not going to go around and find an excuse not to associate with people unless they're dangerous or counter productive. Tankies like me are neither when it comes to any kind of activism. You could make a case for not letting their organizations help you if your values don't align with them. However there is really no reason to exclude good faith participation of every single individual in that group.

I'd really just say that after a long time of thinking it over a harmonious existence is better than one where everyone around me is correct.