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 :)

  • Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.comBanned
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    8 days ago

    Hamas, by carrying out the Oct 7th attacks, has exposed Zionism in the world and a ton of formerly milquetoast “millenia old conflict” uneducated takes (myself included, to my own shame) have been cured.

    China produces 93% of the solar panels in the planet, provides useful economic trade and affordable commodities to developing economies without the usual debt traps of the west and without a positive trade balance (i.e. without neocolonialism), and by simply being the strongest economy in the planet it’s breaking western imperialism’s monopoly over the planet.