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?
EDIT: Thank you to everyone who has responded! This thread has been very insightful :)
The destruction of american hegemony is a material necessity and their rivals thus require critical support. Call it campist if you want, i don’t see western proletariat doing anything to put an end to the America’s genocides and ecocides.
Other capitalist hegemonies are, however, fine.
Hardly. Russia is currently under a proto-fascist government severely repressing women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, communists, and worker organization. That doesn’t mean I want a Russian loss in war that would reinforce the west. Hence the “critical” in critical support
Cope
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Cope
With? Are you okay?
With the reality that the tankies are right as usual
I’m clearly too dumb to understand, please explain.
Why would I bother if I already know you’re too dumb to understand?