>>382411Ehhhhh, true towards a extent but a lot of the "conservative" attitudes of Brezhnev and Stalin are over exaggerated especially in comparison to Bourgeois States at the time, I think people have a tendency to equate the semi-productionist ethic within the USSR with social conservatism. Compared to other countries on sexual issues, the USSR was much more relaxed, they had fairly relaxed policies on homosexuality and legalized things like abortion, their cultural attitudes should be judged with the material conditions they came out of.
At least from what I can tell, third world communists (and less face it the periphery is more oppressed then the imperial core, this isn't a third worldist thing to say) really do not care about optics when it comes to Mao or Stalin, MLs are a lot more popular outside the imperial core. But I agree autistic anti-revisionism isn't really helpful, historical revisionism can be a aid (and I don't really care if people have these discussions here because the only people we get are already Socialists or Nazi tourists) but a lot of people use it as being socialism. Stalin isn't when socialism and people who think this way got to stop, Coming out the gate with "Stalin did nothing wrong" isn't a good strategy. Honestly I think just explain what socialism and Communism is properly (since a lot of people think social democracy is socialism and Communism is when government runs the whole economy) and recommending Marx is a good why to getting things going.
Btw I feel like going "X isn't appealing to women" is a bit weird as it has a tendency to essentialize gender.