Many people on lemmy.ml deeply respect and admire authoritarian governments and organizations.

Iran, China, North Korea, Soviet Union…

The West has many flaws. But our flaws are nothing compared to these guys.

Iran hangs homosexuals. Iran shot 30,000 people in less than than 2 weeks. The Soviet Union had to build a fucking Iron wall to prevent people from escaping. The Soviets lied about the Chernobyl nuclear explosion. China censors the internet. China wants to eliminate Islam. North Korea is a totalitarian hellscape. Watching anime is a crime.

Why is lemmy.ml so fascinated with authoritarians?

  • Cowbee [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    30 days ago

    Because that’s Marcist-lenisim?

    Stalin named it, and he’s the one that set the definition of what that means.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism–Leninism

    They don’t call it “Stalinism” because that’s way harder to defend.

    The ones you see online don’t even understand it, it literally requires supporting the left most party, but I’ve never seen a .ml account actually pushing for change thru the two party system, despite that literally being the first step:

    Marxism–Leninism holds that a two-stage communist revolution is needed to replace capitalism. A vanguard party, organized through democratic centralism, would seize power on behalf of the proletariat and establish a one-party communist state. The state would control the means of production, suppress opposition, counter-revolution, and the bourgeoisie, and promote Soviet collectivism, to pave the way for an eventual communist society that would be classless and stateless.[12]

    Most people online that say they’re “ML” don’t understand anything about it. They “learned” all they know from unsourced shitposts.

    Which is crazy, because this is the closest actual ML has ever come, after trump the Dems are most likely to gain so many seats, it’ll effectively be a one party government starting 2029.

    If we get a progressive Dem that will name a progressive DNC chair after becoming president, we’re fucking there. A one party government that’s genuinely for the proletariat.

    Any that claims to actually be ML and isn’t pushing for the DNC as hard as possible right now is lying about their self professed label, or never understood what it meant

    This has to be one of the worst understandings of Marxism-Leninism I have ever seen.