Can I still be a communist if I think transhumanists could probably learn to accept their birth sex and are getting conned into mutilating themselves to pad big pharma and the service economy? I don't want to do a holocaust about it I swear.
the fact you care enough to make a thread suggests not.
fundamentally, to be one would require you were capable of not caring about that opinion - just as you don't care what i have for dinner today. if you can't do that, you will inevitably find yourself being turned against communists of a different view. your position here will metastasize until it takes over your brain.
this happens time and time again. look at the Scottish National Party: since the 1980s it has been a monolithic bloc, insanely disciplined, focused purely on securing Scottish independence. It rose from nothing to become the Scottish government in 2007, and secured a referendum in 2014 which it lost (but improved support dramatically). From 2014 to 2023 they were completely dominant in Scottish politics… and then the UK became "TERF Island".
As a cynical political ploy, the UK government vetoed a pro-trans Scottish Government law on spurious grounds. This was the first time a Scottish law had ever been vetoed, and the veto was used again shortly afterwards for a bottle recycling scheme. The Scottish government sued. What did the anti-trans Scottish nationalists do?
Naturally, they opposed the Scottish Government, which was run by their own party! When the Supreme court basically said "lol, deal with it, Scotland isn't sovereign and just became part of England 300 years ago" what did they do? They supported the supreme court. Why? Because their anti-trans brainworms were substantially more powerful than their Scottish nationalist sympathies, despite the fact they were all lifelong Scottish nationalists until this came up. The fact that the supreme court had reached a disastrous decision for Scottish nationalists meant nothing to them because it made a wonderful decision for transphobes.
unless you're confident that you're built different, that you don't care and can shut the fuck up, you're not welcome. not because you're anti-trans, but because you're a liability in waiting.
>>2580456hes 100% right. anti trans sentiment is easily coopted by extremists
>>2580456i choose the example because scottish nationalism has a fairly trivial and unambigous goal: more autonomy for scotland, culminating in independence. scottish nationalists cheering the diminishing of scottish autonomy (without abandoning the pretense of scottish nationalism) shows you that something has clearly gone terribly wrong.
substitute "marxism" for "scottish nationalism" and you should hopefully see the illustrative purpose of the exercise: a once disciplined party and movement was suddenly poisoned by the UK government introducing this wedge issue, and the side most eager to betray the cause was the anti-trans side. (and this is in a movement much more disciplined than any modern western marxist org has ever been - what chance do you think you have?)
the proletariat, incidentally, backed scottish independence overwhelmingly.
>>25804831. scottish nationalism is a progressive movement in the UK context, akin to a much lamer version of Irish nationalism rather than to most European nationalisms.
2. were your theory correct the SNP would've balkanized decades before taking power, or shortly after taking power, or after losing the independence referendum… and yet!
3. the proletariat has no need for people who become distracted with inane side issues pushed by bourgeois politicians and weird yankee christians.
>>2580463it's not just that it's also that the trans movement and, yes, the queer movement generally are radical recouperist pressure valves that give the false impression of gradual improvement even though it's just shifting social and political capital around + the steady and expected annual growth in the organic composition of capital
>>2580499your model does not fit with observed facts post-2024.
if there's supposed to be an impression of gradual improvement, why have both the UK and US governments taken a reactionary turn? if it's all just posturing that can be waited out, why have corporations generally gone along with it?
i have a better model for you: because the progress really was a response to bottom up pressure, but as it became clear that these movements wouldn't be content with token gestures, the carrot gave way to the stick.
>>2580436Yes you can. [Insert idpol here] has nothing to do with socialism.
>>2580505No and that's precisely why not. You have to shed the bourgoise culture war and focus on economics to be a communist. If you can't organize because certain other kinds of proles are icky to you then you're useless.