After seeing a megathread praising Mao Zedong, an actual mass killer, and a post about a guy saying “99% of westerners are 100000000000% sure they know what happened in ‘Tiny Man Square’ […] the reasons for this are complex and involve propaganda […],” I am genuinely curious what leads people to this belief system. Even if propaganda is involved when it comes to Tiananmen Square, it doesn’t change the atrocities that were/are committed everywhere else in China.
I am all for letting people believe what they want but I am lost on why one would deliberately praise any authoritarian system this hard.
Can someone please help me understand why this is such a large and prominent community? How have these ideals garnered such a following outside of China?
There’s bias in my writing, sure. I’m not an impartial observer, but a Marxist-Leninist that came to Marxism after anarchism. In the context of the state, which we are necessarily limited to, I have to tackle the economic foundations, though both Marxism and anarchism are about much more. Dialectical materialism, for example, is applicable to all manner of analysis and change, not purely for political ends.