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 :)

  • Loco_Mex@sh.itjust.works
    22·
    8 days ago

    If you have billionaires you are capitalist end of story. save the propaganda for your comrades and go fertilize Ukraine

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
      32·
      8 days ago

      Your point is that there’s no transition between capitalism and communism, but instead an immediate destruction of all class all at once, overnight? Or is it that a society run by the working classes and public ownership as principle is capitalist all the way until the very last capitalist is liquidated, at which point it’s communist? Either way, your understanding of class struggle and modes of production is deeply confused and based on a type of “purity” in production and distribution that has never existed. A capitalist state isn’t socialist just for having some degree of public property, so too is a socialist state not capitalist just for having some degree of private property.

      Telling me to kill myself is also deeply unserious behavior. You have no evidence, no logic to back your claim, just a self-supported assertion and an insult.