I am a queer person, and I am scared of tankies because they support the creation of an authoritarian state which is fundamentally incompatible with the ideas queer liberation and self-determination.
Iâm all for communism. Every day is a new day for me to witness and live the horrors of capitalism. Hell, I got laid off a couple months ago and I may be facing homelessness soon. I could go on a tangent here but itâs very clear to me that we need a different system soon. But I donât want to build a âfiscally leftists, socially conservativeâ society. I want it all left.
There is nothing about the core ideology of Marxism Leninism that is opposed to queer rights. Actually there are a lot of queer people in the community at large who are communist and findable on YouTube or Lemmy. Iâm one of them.
Iâm not here to teach everything and I trust you know enough to be able to look up more as you wish. If you want an example of an ML nation that is pro queer look up the Cuba Family Code changes made recently. Theyâre among the most progressive in the world and help to guarente rights for trans people, lgbt, and more. Additionally China has a large trans healthcare clinic first of its kind recently opened in Beijing and a well known trans TV host. Vietnam also has a vibrant lgbt community and even in North Korea homosexuality and cross dressing to my research are not criminalized despite lacking public interest/support.
The days of old are over and new communist nations can and are doing better to ditch reactionary tendencies especially around queer rights.
Itâs not just that, they support existing regimes that are known to be queerphobic. China is having its own trans panic right now, and their government is contributing to it, so when people support states like that itâs not just that they donât support queer liberation, but it seems like they specifically want queer people gone entirely. It seems like they agree with fascists when it comes to queer people.
Named after a literal weapon of war, that serve no function except to kill people. It doesnât till fields for crops to feed people, it doesnât really even serve as a transport except for transporting itâs own crew to whoever they are going to shoot or crush
And then the whining: âHow come you donât feel safe around us???â
Gee I donât know
The common thread of âauthoritarianâ countries isnât communism or fascism. Itâs having significant opposition. Almost always from the US.
No Communist supports suppression of dissent. Itâs a countermeasure to foreign interference. It doesnât exist because tankes feel like authoritarian states work better but because the US has an extensive and well known track record of breaking international sovereignty laws and installing fascist regimes by force.
Communists didnât want to be slaughtered for wanting to abolish poverty. Therefore every real life communist is a tankie, either because they understood that class war is war or because theyâre buried under capitalist soil.
This suppression of opposition doesnât have ideological basis. Itâs an emergency measure in a time of war. Hence why even every CAPITALIST country opposed to US interests is âauthoritarianâ.
