Yeah you dodged it because you have no response.

Sorta is now, lol

The GOP is directly inspired by the homophobic attitudes in both countries. Have you been living under a rock?

What good are rights when you’re poor and hungry with no fucking housing?

I mean you’re not poor and hungry if you have time to argue with me on Lemmy on a Star Trek space, unless you just have really bad priorities? Also you dodged the point about private property abolition not doing anything for trans rights…

As a trans person, the outcome that would directly benefit me the most from political action would be the immediate abolition of private property

No it wouldn’t, given they didn’t have rights in the Soviet Union, which abolished private property.

I don’t really buy into tankies complaining about “the war machine” when they back Russian and Chinese imperialism. Something tells me you don’t care about trans rights when Russia directly claims to be fighting LGBTQ people in Ukraine.

Fair enough, was specifically wondering what your views were on People’s Multiparty Democracy that Nepalese Maoists subscribe to?

How do you feel on the Nepalese Maoists?

Thanks a lot :) I’ve been meaning to read up on anarchosocialism for quite awhile.

https://www.economist.com/china/2023/05/25/why-the-communist-party-fears-gay-rights

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_history_in_Russia#Soviet_Union

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Cuba#Homophobia_and_labor_camps_during_the_1960s

So no, reality doesn’t conform to what you’re saying.

DDR was fairly progressive in the 1980s

It was less progressive than West Germany/West Berlin, and only began tolerating LGBTQ people (not granting them equal rights) after opening up more to the West near the end of its existence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_German_Democratic_Republic

Yeah it’s not like the countries with the highest acceptance and rights of lgbtq people are liberal democracies, lol

They’re not in communist countries. And Florida is led by illiberal increasingly anti-democratic figures that are directly inspired by Russia and even China, so what a terrible example to counteract my point, lol

I don’t think you can have a direct say in everything in society, trying to make such a society sounds like a nightmare IMO.

Fair enough on the Zapatistias, I just hear about them a lot from anarchists as a workable example of anarchosocialism.

And yeah I actually don’t know a lot about anarchist Catalonia, just that it’s basically the biggest example of anarchism on a society-wide level. Was actually goading you for more information lol.

Mahknovists

Yes, them. Also don’t know much about them. I know far more about the Menshevik territories in Georgia and Russia, which were democratic socialist and not anarchist, and even more forgotten about.

Agreed with that

It’s economic suicide but okay.

I’m aware of Cuba’s recent laws regarding LGBTQ rights. Cuba for decades sent homosexuals and trans people into internment camps because they were “deviants” and only recently has enacted LGBTQ rights because it’s been forced to open up to the rest of the world after the fall of the Soviet Union. Also it’s just one example, whereas the largest ML country, China, heavily represses anyone who is not heteronormative. So does North Korea. So did the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc. It was in liberal democracies where LGBTQ people first gained rights and have the strongest rights.

Just asking for clarification. I’m not for direct democracy because it seems like democracy just for the elite.

I never understood LGBTQ people who identify as Leninists or ML given these regimes heavily persecuted LGBTQ people and continue to persecute them to this day (China for example)

Tankies are the bane of my existence, so I agree

Well what do you think of those examples, since they’re large scale?