• lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    The problem with blaming Christianity itself is that it evacuates the class analysis. Liberals view History as a battle of ideas, with religions representing ideas that they deem "backwards", so they will say that religions are to blame for reaction. As Marxists we know that History is ultimately a History of class struggle, so we know that religions have been used by the an economic class to prevent systemic change.

    • ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      You should look into why Russia became anti-lgbt, it was the implementation by Alexander, the Tsar/Monarch in order to secure better trade terms with the christian west; he implemented orthodox christianty, which came with it anti-lgbt reforms.

      Prior to this Russia was known to have culture of open polyamory, lesbain and gay relationships socially accepted; its 90% religion tbh, but that obviously was beaten into them as slaves.

      • Muad'Dibber@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        We should view these religions with a class lense tho: Christianity was an ideological tool to entrench feudalism / patriarchal rule, womens oppression, repress any sexuality that didn't conform to feudalism, etc.

        Nearly all hunter-gatherer / pre-feudal societies have more progressive family and social relations, and the feudal lords needed to entrench systems of thought to get rid of that.

        • ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          for sure, the class analysis of this would be the monarch class instilling it in russia through slavery; they would have used there factories, religious structures and whip to make sure this happened; it was a top down IDpol class oppression.

      • Omniraptor [they/them]
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        1 year ago

        I'm russian and this fact comes as a surprise to me to put it mildly, could you give a source please

        • ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          Sure!

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          Sorry for the wikipedia analysis here, but if you look into it you can see how each sucsessive Tsar turned the screw incremently on gay people with more and more reforms against LGBT+ russians.

          I think a study of LGBT history globally tbh tends to betray homophobes arguements that being gay is a modern thing, imo when we're left to our own devices free of class and religious oppression it tends to manifest as socially acceptable; which kind of goes against the 'its not natural!' bullshit.

          • Omniraptor [they/them]
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            1 year ago

            Yeah sorry for not being clear it was specifically the phrase "Alexander.. implemented orthodox Christianity" that had me rolling. It happened a bit earlier than that.

            And the actual criminalization happened under Nicholas I in 1835, specifically as a reaction to secular revolutionary movements in France (which decriminalized homosexuality). Also to align with Prussia and Austria which had punitive laws. The idea was to strengthen the church as a bulwark against uprisings.

            • ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml
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              1 year ago

              Yeah thats fair, my understanding of this isnt great; I just knew the gist of that the tsars trended towards implementing reactionary policies but not the detail of it; do you have any good sources on this?