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 :)
That’s the goal of all communists, including MLs. The disagreement lies in the path to get there.
It’d be great to get dialogue going on hows though. Or really to talk to anyone in my day to day thay isn’t a capitalist.
Marxists-Leninism doesn’t attract people whose disposition is towards a stateless society. They may offer a vague “some day”, but all their effort is in the opposite direction.