One issue with anarchists is that they often wind up repeating oversimplified anti-communist propaganda when they criticize MLs. Oh, Stalin criminalized same-sex relationships? Guess that's the end of the story -- no need to examine LGBT rights under Lenin, or LGBT rights in modern-day Cuba, or to compare any of these countries to what came before or to what capitalist countries were doing at the same time. And definitely don't pay any attention to what today's American MLs have to say about LGBT rights.
Definitely shouldn't examine the role that western funding of reactionary religious organizations, during the global war on communism, played in keeping countries conservative.
One issue with anarchists is that they often wind up repeating oversimplified anti-communist propaganda when they criticize MLs. Oh, Stalin criminalized same-sex relationships? Guess that's the end of the story -- no need to examine LGBT rights under Lenin, or LGBT rights in modern-day Cuba, or to compare any of these countries to what came before or to what capitalist countries were doing at the same time. And definitely don't pay any attention to what today's American MLs have to say about LGBT rights.
Definitely shouldn't examine the role that western funding of reactionary religious organizations, during the global war on communism, played in keeping countries conservative.