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ColombianLenin [he/him]

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  • Internally: Bureaucratism (AKA Careerism)

    Externally: US Pressure in the form of the Arms race and economic decoupling which divested crucial economic production capacity from consumer goods to heavy production and armament, eventually causing the standards of living to widen too much in comparison to the west.

    How much one or the other was more important is hard to know, but the two death blows came in the form of the Sino Soviet Split, and the Soviet Afghan war.

  • Fair, maybe I could've given a second thought to context as this forum is not what a regular lib would think.

  • I think the issue is whether we are putting up socialist standards to a revolutionary government that maybe is not socialist in nature. And even then it's civil society can be very complex, see China.

    But unfortunately I think that yes, some political calculation was made to say that in fact, they should ban being gay.

  • Never said it was a good reason, but it was very likely a social and politically driven decision.

    In other words, the people there are very likely highly socially conservative and so making this move was more popular than not.

    It's not a morally driven thing, so don't put words in my mouth. I don't agree with the move either.

  • Alright, fine I'll remove myself from the convo in this post, I'm annoyed at some shit and don't want to keep fanning the flames here.

  • We are in a contradiction between criticism of LGBT issues and criticism of people in the global south.

    I acknowledge that the move is not okay, but I'm tired of white/western leftists denouncing revolutionary governments in the global south because it doesn't fit their standards.

  • Maybe, and could be product of frustration since I'm annoyed at Americans telling others what to do. Recent news about Venezuela doesn't help.

    But I will stand on the fact that as much as we want the world to be a particular way, the world today fucking sucks and we need to toughen up cause we are in it for a long ride.

  • Correct!

    The reason for my original comment is not to show uncritical support for Traoré, but to have western leftists realize that abandoning and denouncing a budding anti colonial revolution because of a particular social conservative move is undialectical.

  • I know, and I'm not celebrating that, but it is very likely that the social and political conditions today are very homophobic and basically required said legislation. Are there any polls that show the move as unpopular there?

    And just as Cuba and Castro started with a homophobic path and then backtracked, we need to trust that the oppressed people's of the nation will also rise up and demand a backtrack of homophobic and regressive laws.

  • It is possible, but not under the social, political, and economic conditions in Burkina Faso, otherwise they would not have pursued this policy.

    It's important to apply a dialectical view of geopolitics, free from idealisms.

  • If you read the comment I'm blaming the western imperialists for their weaponizing of social progressivism, not the oppressed people's themselves.

    What I am against is hand wringing about a revolution in the other side of the world, because it doesn't fit to your western standards.

    BTW social progressivism follows material conditions. If the conditions arise, LGBT issues and other social progressive issues will come to the forefront of a serious revolution.

  • All of mine would be as well, but criticizing what other people are building because it doesn't fit your standards on the other side of the world is just chauvinistic.

    I'm not saying being socially conservative is good, but I'm not gonna denounce a revolution just because something is not going the way I personally want to.

  • Considering coffee is part of Colombia's culture, with festivals, tourism, and a whole identity influenced by coffee...

    Allow me to politely disagree. And I don't think it's that different in other parts of the world.

  • I didn't take the post title seriously but just in case...

    Calling coffee a treat is a bit of an insult to pretty much all the global south bar SEA / East Asia.

  • This will also mean much harder terms for Ukraine, since the window of rapprochement towards Europe is shrinking and it's less important to be lenient towards the Ukrainians for diplomatic relations.

  • Real talk, when has the world gave such attention to a victory day military parade? Speaks volumes that there is such expectations of it IMO.

  • More and more people are saying that

  • Works in spanish