The quoted post (the one at the bottom of the screenshot) just... doesn't sound right. Any sources for the claims? Gay rights? I know homosexuality was legal (or at least, not illegal) for a while. But asides from that? Gender corrective surgery, in the 1920s? How would you even say "queer liberation" in Russian, isn't that a term that emerged in 1960s USA? I don't think USSR even existed under Lenin "for more than a decade", considering that the Revolution was in 1917 and Lenin passed away in 1924...
Sincere question. If any of what the quoted post says is true, please educate me about it.
The post at the top of the screenshot is also wrong, and there is a place for queers in Marxism. I just don't think anyone is helped by pretending historic examples of socialism were better with regards to these issues than they really were. I think the correct thing to do is to acknowledge where they were lacked and to learn from it for the future.
The quoted post (the one at the bottom of the screenshot) just... doesn't sound right. Any sources for the claims? Gay rights? I know homosexuality was legal (or at least, not illegal) for a while. But asides from that? Gender corrective surgery, in the 1920s? How would you even say "queer liberation" in Russian, isn't that a term that emerged in 1960s USA? I don't think USSR even existed under Lenin "for more than a decade", considering that the Revolution was in 1917 and Lenin passed away in 1924...
Sincere question. If any of what the quoted post says is true, please educate me about it.
The post at the top of the screenshot is also wrong, and there is a place for queers in Marxism. I just don't think anyone is helped by pretending historic examples of socialism were better with regards to these issues than they really were. I think the correct thing to do is to acknowledge where they were lacked and to learn from it for the future.
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