Both of you are right for different reasons. Equal rights means ACTUAL equal rights, no affirmative action bullshit. Everyone should have equal everything as communist writers imagined a post scarcity world would be like. Second off, ABSOLUTELY BASED. Even if i'm a staunch believer in gender abolitionism, I still think that during the in-between period of postgenderism that sexual orientation or attraction should NOT be any sort of factor in play of someone's identity unless they want it to be, pretty much just like race.
To be completely honest, privileges based on factors of yourself that you can't control seems extremely stupid to me. And yes, I do see orientation and attraction as something you can't control. It just comes naturally to you that you realize that you are on the LGBTQ+ spectrum. And before you say, I don't think that this logic fully applies to things like race or ethnicity. 1: I think race and ethnicity are stupid categorizations too. Race abolitionist all the way. 2: These minorities should not be ignored, but the culture of the area needs to change to accommodate these peoples. These can be done in different ways depending on how staunch the culture is, but my views are that mass re-education and new generation education are the best way to facilitate these changes. Anyways, I think the latter that Jushuin wrote is true for me.
I'll entertain this even though I don't believe the people you're speaking on even desire or demand privileges. LGBTQ+ people should obviously be granted equal rights and a society that isn't hostile to them. This also is nonnegotiable in my opinion, and any western revolutionary movement that doesn't do the bare minimum of treating their fellow human beings as equals and as humans is not really revolutionary.
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Honestly, this point is ultra-based. Communism itself is built on the principle of TRUE equality, so have everyone be TRULY equal. I just think that Marx didn't go far enough on gender, as I think that gender itself is oppressive and just another form of class in society. Abolish it is what I say.
I think that, while transgender people obviously still existed in the 1800s (since it's not like they just appeared out of nowhere like reactionaries like to pretend), trans issues weren't necessarily at as much of the forefront as it is today. I could be wrong though as I'm not too educated on the subject.
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Caeneus, Iphis, Leucippus, Mestra, Siproites, and Tiresias were trans. (NSFW content warning, this is greek mythos after all)
Right, I'm not saying there weren't trans people, I'm just saying that maybe it wasn't as commonly talked about as gay, lesbian, or bi issues and that Marx simply didn't have a formulated opinion on them. Again though I could easily be wrong on this.
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In all the Marxist theory that I have read (which isn't a lot), I haven't really seen a lot of trans issues popping up. Then again, in the 50s and such there was widespread phobia of the general LGBTQ community, so it's really up in the air. Neither of us are professionals at this.
I think this is a means of differentiation to create opposition and hinder the unity of the proletariat. Because in socialism these discriminations will be eliminated. I think it is a united front that should unite all anti-capitalist and anti-feudalism, but the discrimination and contradictions created by capitalism make it impossible for people to unite.
After the UFROEian actions against the terrorists, the Eleutheryan People's Special Attack Forces send two squadrons of patrolling in the region's of Saudi Arabia where the terroristic quarters were spotted to be. The squadrons are highly trained and equipped with laser drones, as well as almost indestructible attack helicopters, but the enemies seem to have been equipped by the overly armed capitalistic, imperialistic empire of Hamerika.
I have a lot of collegues in the UK who are very conservative, and they believe giving people equal rights would mean that they get privileges, and don't seem to know the difference between equal opportunity and extra privilege.
In the west well.... it depends on the country but sexual minorities are more often discriminated against than treated equally, and even less, given privileges.
Honestly, From personal experience I think we should have equal rights, even better be treated Like ordinary people. In Poland this thing is a huge problem because our government of PiS is a discriminatory tyranny by majority. I'm personally a Bisexual person, though I have, Like 2 gay friends and 3 transsexuals, and they would pretty much say the same.
I mean, Not much of Us fall for It, mainly because Poland Has Been indoctrinated by all governments against the left. We actually have 3 socialist Parties, some older some younger, but all have one thing in common, there's 10% of Poland in us, and the number is growing. PiS in our opinion is basically right-leaning populism, Not many economic leftists vote for them. And no, I don't vote for them. (I mean for PiS, I vote for the Alliance of Democratic Left, SLD A propos, in Poland we have only a so called "Lesser evil" the liberal PO, for which most leftists vote. (For whatever reason, I don't know why actually. (Edit: PO, Platforma Obywatelska, the Civic platform
Sadly, I think the left in most countries has only come to power by revolution. Because the so-called "elected government" has developed into a puppet of a few people.
Elected governments are usually bent into subversion by the aristocrats who run the elections, and at the end all must kneel to them. Revolutions have no such influence and can truly represent the people. The Mensheviks in Russia tried to represent the working class through democratic election, but turned into the puppets of the Trudoviks and the Tsar.
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