Cuba was once extremely homophobic but leadership accepted responsibility for its past and began moving forward even when gay rights were still contentious. It’s not impossible in this current era, and hopefully it accelerates as the boomers retire
Cuba also spent the last 50 years successfully resisting American imperialism and their influence, at the expense of getting materially sanctioned by almost the rest of the world.
It is no coincidence that Cuba and Vietnam, two of the recent countries that have made progress on LGBT rights, are also two of the very few countries in the world that had succeeded in resisting American imperialism.
For the rest of the world, it’s not as easy as you make it sound to free itself from Western imperialism. Even China.
It is only when your country has freed itself of foreign intervention that you can truly develop and progress as a society.
Without that, any progress will be set back immediately by the Western imperialists.
Afghanistan had a communist government that allowed women to go to school and take on professional jobs, you know? Do you know what happened to Afghanistan immediately after the communist government started to make progress?
Indonesia also once had a communist-aligned president whose vision was to create an independent non-aligned bloc, the Third World, that was supposed to be free from US and Soviet intervention, do you know what happened immediately to Indonesia when they started to make progress?
Same thing with Russia following the fall of the USSR. And many other countries that are too numerous to point out each and every single one of them. The point is that Western imperialism has had a heavy hand in stifling progress all over the world since the last century, and without resolving this principal contradiction (Western imperialism), it is difficult for humanity as a whole to move forward.
Cuba was once extremely homophobic but leadership accepted responsibility for its past and began moving forward even when gay rights were still contentious. It’s not impossible in this current era, and hopefully it accelerates as the boomers retire
Cuba also spent the last 50 years successfully resisting American imperialism and their influence, at the expense of getting materially sanctioned by almost the rest of the world.
It is no coincidence that Cuba and Vietnam, two of the recent countries that have made progress on LGBT rights, are also two of the very few countries in the world that had succeeded in resisting American imperialism.
For the rest of the world, it’s not as easy as you make it sound to free itself from Western imperialism. Even China.
It is only when your country has freed itself of foreign intervention that you can truly develop and progress as a society.
Without that, any progress will be set back immediately by the Western imperialists.
Afghanistan had a communist government that allowed women to go to school and take on professional jobs, you know? Do you know what happened to Afghanistan immediately after the communist government started to make progress?
Indonesia also once had a communist-aligned president whose vision was to create an independent non-aligned bloc, the Third World, that was supposed to be free from US and Soviet intervention, do you know what happened immediately to Indonesia when they started to make progress?
Same thing with Russia following the fall of the USSR. And many other countries that are too numerous to point out each and every single one of them. The point is that Western imperialism has had a heavy hand in stifling progress all over the world since the last century, and without resolving this principal contradiction (Western imperialism), it is difficult for humanity as a whole to move forward.