this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
33 points (94.6% liked)

Ask Lemmygrad

63 readers
1 users here now

A place to ask questions of Lemmygrad's best and brightest

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Hello,

I want to learn and understand why Russia is doing this? From what i have read on other sites the laws against allowing LGBT people have only been getting stronger, meanwhile in CPC the society is moving slowly more progressively in some ways on the topic of LGBT, like they don't target them like what is happening in russia.

I'd really like to see this topic and article discussed.

What are other lemmygrad communities for discussing topics like this in the future?

Thank you.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please clarify what you mean by this. Are you suggesting that it's imperialist to be gay?

[โ€“] Finnish_nationalisti -3 points 1 year ago

No, this is a silly simplification of the matter. The superstructure doesn't determine the material base, but instead reflects it. So "being gay" is the product of the superstructure of imperialism, and as such only exists in the imperial core and their comprador states (and rarely in individual compradors outside of these states). It is supported in the imperial core precisely because it complements the parasitic nature of imperialism, having others do your work, and then leeching off it. Having others keep the planet populated and dedicating your own life to hedonist pleasure seeking. In addition the resulting depopulation (a completely unobjectionable statistic fact at this point), benefits the imperialist bourgeoise as it shrinks the parasitic labour aristocracy of the imperial core, which demands a part of the imperialist pie. The actual workforce has been outsourced to the global South long ago, the western working class is unproductive, and as such a burden more than anything for the imperialist bourgeoise.