Russia steps up attacks on LGBTQ+ people amid a climate of fear
www.lgbtqnation.com
New legislation would ban gender-affirming care and ID changes, while Putin explores reinstating conversion therapy...

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.

    • @Finnish_nationalisti
      -3•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.