In general but mainly referring to lgbt+ struggles.

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    It depends on where you go, like Cuba has been ahead on LGBTQ stuff for a while. My gut instinct is to say a lot of socialist countries have been highly pro-natal or were trying to build agriculture communities so went overboard on developing stable nuclear families based on patriarchal reproduction. A primary focus for socialist countries has been food independence, that was historically associated with structured farming apparatuses, and that was associated with structured patriarchal families, so that might have done it. LGBTQ people often don't adhere to patriarchal nuclear families.

    Cuba has a lot of independent farmers and relies on other countries for food, so maybe that's part of why they're ahead on LGBTQ rights? It also doesn't help that LGBTQ folk have been considered diseased nearly everywhere in the world up until very recently. Like I'm nonbinary and 99% of westerners tell me to see a doctor unless they're a vocal leftist.

    Does anyone know more about this to say if I'm on the right track? I might be nuts.