It was Mao who once said that the party should never move too far ahead of the masses, to quote:
Communists must never separate themselves from the majority of the people or neglect them by leading only a few progressive contingents in an isolated and rash advance, but must take care to forge close links between the progressive elements and the broad masses. This is what thinking in terms of the majority means.
This is also why Stalin (unfortunately) recriminalized Homosexuality after Lenin legalized it; because he recognized that the masses of the USSR were still mostly socially reactionary and moving too far forward socially risked tearing apart the nascent Soviet state and turn said masses against the party. And he was right: see how many soldiers in the Ukrainian SSR alone willingly joined the Nazis the moment they had a chance.
This is not to say a socialist state shouldn’t strive to push the masses towards social progress, women’s rights were advanced far more quickly in the Socialist bloc than the Capitalist world last century for example. But such social progress must be organic and done within a framework that will be appropriate to the material conditions of the socialist society. If Burkina Faso had their stonewall moment today this law would probably never pass. But they didn’t, because the masses aren’t ready for it yet.
see how many soldiers in the Ukrainian SSR alone willingly joined the Nazis the moment they had a chance
I was going to make a joke about history repeating but felt bad about the guys who were murdered on the frontlines, forcefully conscripted, because soylensky prevented them from moving somewhere safer so the west could have test subjects for their new weapons systems.
It was Mao who once said that the party should never move too far ahead of the masses, to quote:
This is also why Stalin (unfortunately) recriminalized Homosexuality after Lenin legalized it; because he recognized that the masses of the USSR were still mostly socially reactionary and moving too far forward socially risked tearing apart the nascent Soviet state and turn said masses against the party. And he was right: see how many soldiers in the Ukrainian SSR alone willingly joined the Nazis the moment they had a chance.
This is not to say a socialist state shouldn’t strive to push the masses towards social progress, women’s rights were advanced far more quickly in the Socialist bloc than the Capitalist world last century for example. But such social progress must be organic and done within a framework that will be appropriate to the material conditions of the socialist society. If Burkina Faso had their stonewall moment today this law would probably never pass. But they didn’t, because the masses aren’t ready for it yet.
I was going to make a joke about history repeating but felt bad about the guys who were murdered on the frontlines, forcefully conscripted, because soylensky prevented them from moving somewhere safer so the west could have test subjects for their new weapons systems.