I could go into the history of how socialist East Germany had state-sponsored gay bars at the same time that the capitalist United States was sending police raids into gay bars to kill us and was purposely letting AIDS ravage our communities, or how Cuba made it illegal to discriminate on the basis of sexuality and gender years before the United States.
Or I could talk about how the United States and its capitalist allies in Western Europe are responsible for the worst treatment of ethnic minorities in history, with the whole, y’know centuries of colonialism and violently enforced white supremacy to uphold it, the slavery, the Jim Crow laws, the fact that the United States had segregation and was murdering black people in the streets at the same time that the Soviet Union was vocally anti-racism and anti-colonialism, and most communist groups have been people resisting capitalist colonizers.
But that’s all besides the point, because even though capitalist nations have been and consistently are much worse on queer and racial oppression, ML states have had problems, and I’m not going to deny that. Especially as an anarchist, I have no problem criticizing them when criticism is due.
However, if your concern is “I don’t want an institution of power harming marginalized people” I have bad news for you about capitalism. Capitalism has never and will never be a liberatory force. It requires hierarchy to function, and that hierarchy will always benefit privileged people. Similarly, capitalism needs a state to function, because the people with power exploiting the lower classes need a way to defend their power from potential revolt. There has never been a capitalist society without a state and there will never be one for that reason.
If you want to ensure that marginalized people aren’t being tread upon, the only way to do that is through anarchism, and anarchism is fundamentally incompatible with capitalism
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