• Realistichawkdrawing@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 years ago

    Yeah Ive found many of the old mainstay groups like CPGB are using transphobia to bridge the gap with the “working class”. That the “culture war” needs to be stopped. Which is bullshit. Im not isolating our Marginalized comrades to gain bigot support.

    • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 years ago

      The support of one marginalized comrade is more worth than the support of a dozen bigots. They are more dependable, more dedicated, more personally invested, and more acutely aware of the realities of oppression under capitalism.

      The more backwards sections of the proletariat will eventually be swept along by the revolution but they cannot serve as its vanguard as they are too vacillating and easily bribed into class treason with concessions and privileges.

      In the initial phases of gathering our forces and building the politically disciplined organizations of the vanguard the task is not to indiscriminately amass numbers but to build a solid core of the most advanced section of the proletariat.

      Without this highly disciplined, dedicated and well organized core there is nothing for the masses to coalesce around. You end up with a spontaneous movement with no clear direction nor staying power, easily dissipated or hijacked by liberals.

      We have seen this phenomenon clearly time and time again. Black Lives Matter was the most recent and perfect example of this. Whereas all historically successful revolutions, from Russia to China, Vietnam to Cuba followed the vanguard model.

      P.S. To any comrades who haven’t yet done so, please go read Lenin’s “What Is To Be Done?”.

  • InvertedMussolini@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 years ago

    What a stupid hill to die on.

    There are actual problems to deal with that are a far greater priority than this one, even if you are a transphobic revolutionary and for some cursed hellworld reason that this article of theirs has any relevance to reality (which btw it does not); imagine prioritizing this over capitalism, imperialism, fascism, neoliberalism, the climate crisis…

    The sooner that the senescent “empire” collapses into the obscurity it deserves, the better. I just hope it takes the CPGB-ML and all the transphobes on terf island with it.

  • InvertedMussolini@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 years ago

    “Hey Communist Party of Great Britain (ML), how’s it going?”

    “Bourgeoise.”

    “…yeah.”

    The absolute state of UK politics when the communist party can’t even spell bourgeoisie right.

  • SaddamHussein24@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 years ago

    This is pure bullshit. There have been transgender people from at least during WW2 that i know of (im italian, theres an old italian trans woman, whos still alive btw, who served as a soldier during WW2 and she declared herself to be a woman just after the war was over), so way before LGBT rights movements became mainstream. This alone completely refutes this bs that transgenderism is an invention of liberals.

    • cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 years ago

      I’ve read that most human cultures for thousands of years have recognized and accepted multiple genders and gender-fluidity. It wasn’t until European imperialism in the Americas that Indigenous cultures were subjugated and destroyed and bastardized that an artificial gender binary was enforced.

    • VictimOfReligion@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 years ago

      There has been transgender people way before capitalism was invented. Just search for the priestess of the goddess Asherah as an example. It’s like people always forget that history existed before the Industrial Revolution for some reason when it suits them.