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designer vagina under communism, huh? (lemmy.zip)

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[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

I don't think I've ever encountered someone claiming that queerness is bourgeois, actually. Is that a common claim?

This actually goes back to the USSR in the 30s, where, after a repeal of Tsarist law in the country led to a ~Decade long sexual revolutio.

But Stalin's rise to power, and subsequent anxieties related to geopolitical isolation and the buildup to WW2, led to a socially reactionary turn, and homosexuality was criminalized.

The reason given by some was that Homosexuality was bourgeoisie decadence.

This is, of course, silly. But that's a line that persists among some ML parties. For example, in the UK, most ML orgs still hold to this line of thinking. While your pro-lgbt socialist orgs lean heavily Trotskyist.