Extremely disappointing to see this, this is not a Sankara thing to do at all.
terrible way to create national unity as well. he needs his people behind him to help him build the country. he does have that but this takes some of those people away and criminalizes their existence. there will be many people whose loved ones are adversely affected and they wont be feeling that national unity either. appeasing old conservatives ideals is not how you move a country forward
Fuck’s sake. Why is the venn diagram of “not an imperialist puppet” and “okay with queer people” just two almost entirely separate circles with maybe a sliver labeled “Cuba” between them?
Filipino Maoists.
Nepal is good on LGBTQ rights relatively, though the communist movement is kinda split, though their first gay politician did recently defect TO CPN (Unified Marxist Leninist)
Nepal’s communist/maoist parties — at least the ones with power — are in name only. You can’t call parties that have unbelievable amounts of corruption and nepotism rampant in them communist — you could supply these people with enough money and they’ll forget communist ideals entirely. Not to mention that their leaders have a handful of controversies at any given time. However, the country does have LGBTQ rights in the constitution itself; but queer people can’t freely express themselves due to the backwardness of society.
could we get some examples of imperialist puppets which are okay with queer people, cant really think of any, ig the problem moreso is that many countries generally are not ok with queer people
Canada?
Australia has many issues but it’s a very good place to not be cishet
Depends what you mean by “ok with” and who counts as accepted queer groups but it’s not typically punishable by prison in quite a lot of countries these days, even many imperialist puppets. Like idk northern Europe or whatever.
The core contradiction of the Hexbear community is trying to reconcile AES with social liberalism.
I can only speak for myself but I always default to “none of us are free until all of us are free”.
There have been and are real socialist states (not just nominally so) that were some of the most advanced countries in the world on queer issues, specifically East Germany before and Cuba now. I do kind of agree with you in a more general sense, because Hexbear as a whole doesn’t know how to deal with the concept of social discipline.
AES (the state) doesn’t seem to me to be socialist in any significant sense, though it is worth supporting in its struggle against the west on roughly the same basis as Iran. Parading Sankara’s corpse isn’t very compelling when he could barely be called a Marxist in his approach to begin with (as in his political practice, not his speeches), and they do not approach even him.
I think the anti-revisionists have a point that “Actually Existing Socialism” is a question-begging term, which makes sense when one remembers that it was popularized by the USSR after revisionists had seized power and was mostly used in the context of justifying what we now all recognize as revisionism in the USSR and elsewhere. Arguments about whether or not your approach is socialist are so much simpler when you start by assuming that you are.
The soy “A -> B, B -> C, therefore A -> C” vs the chad “C = C”.
sankara could barely be called a marxist?
He was installed by a military coup, not a popular revolution, and then enacted some positive reforms but fundamentally failed to produce anything remotely like a dictatorship of the proletariat, and was thereby ousted by the military who held the power the whole time. Sankara was genuinely benevolent in his intentions, but his approach to revolution was anti-Marxist and it created a warped state that was basically a military dictatorship when it decided to be (though he did not support such a thing, he ultimately did not stop it), because popular support functioned as a convenience rather than the actual mechanism of decision-making.
