I think it’s mostly just cuz most successful socialist movements took off in more rural, socially conservative areas. If the population your organize in has brain worms there’s only so much you can really do about that in the short term, base and super structure an all that. The socialist states that have managed to develop, improve education, and have a more urban complexion, tend to be getting better about LGBT stuff, slower than they should but they are getting better.
I also think media isolation and censorship doesn’t help. I get some of that is understandable and necessary to prevent foreign fuckery, but it does sadly have the side effect of making communication between people who are geographically distant difficult. People tend to get more tolerant of those different then them when they have some line of communication, not being able to converse with LGTB people from cultures more tolerant of them makes it harder it view them as normal humans like anyone else.
Even in the rural ones, we see significant progress in the more developed areas (the Shanghai Communist Party cadres for example have been harshly critical of recent government actions around gender.)
I think it’s mostly just cuz most successful socialist movements took off in more rural, socially conservative areas. If the population your organize in has brain worms there’s only so much you can really do about that in the short term, base and super structure an all that. The socialist states that have managed to develop, improve education, and have a more urban complexion, tend to be getting better about LGBT stuff, slower than they should but they are getting better.
I also think media isolation and censorship doesn’t help. I get some of that is understandable and necessary to prevent foreign fuckery, but it does sadly have the side effect of making communication between people who are geographically distant difficult. People tend to get more tolerant of those different then them when they have some line of communication, not being able to converse with LGTB people from cultures more tolerant of them makes it harder it view them as normal humans like anyone else.
great example of this is the GDR. most advanced state in europe regarding LGBT+ rights, until they were annexed by west germany
Even in the rural ones, we see significant progress in the more developed areas (the Shanghai Communist Party cadres for example have been harshly critical of recent government actions around gender.)