It shouldn't be surprising but I think a lot of obsession with "decadence" (or any other label nebulous enough that it can be applied to any group I dislike on cultural grounds alone) on the left is coming from reactionary factions.

  • build_a_bear_group [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    If there is one gender, then there are no genders. Communism seeks the slow withering away of gender after the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Like the Gender Anarchists, communism seeks the abolition of gender (Geschlechtausheben) it is merely the methods of this that divide the left.

    Whether you seek to immediately force gender abolition like the Gender Anarchist all wearing a single unisex jumpsuit, the belief of Marxist-Leninists that if the Soviet Union were given enough time, people would gradually give up all performances of gender spontaneously as bourgeois decadence, or the left-coms that believe that gender expression should be perpetrated to its most diverse extent, as once everyone has their own gender it will disappear as a concept.

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      I know you're making a joke but those are all real factions of the gender debate if you remove the anarchist, ML, leftcom and soviet union part.

      • build_a_bear_group [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        I know, I tried to make the joke by combining these debates with a somewhat loose version of state abolition debates, and "if there is one party, then there are no parties" position.

    • Ideology [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      https://libcom.org/article/gender-accelerationist-manifesto