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?


Against what? Your completely absurd, blatantly ahistorical distortion of theory? Again, where did you even pick up these brainworms?
No, because it isn’t. You’re just trolling, aren’t you? Did you read a single thing I quoted?
You quoted Lenin…
Again, he had no say in “Marxism-Leninism”, because Stalin made it up using their names.
You can’t defend ML by using quotes of Lenon or Marx, because those parts may or may not be in ML.
You keep saying you understand that, but you clearly don’t or you wouldn’t be doing what you’re doing.
Lmao. So just to make this absolutely clear, in your worldview:
Lenin was an evil crazy revolutionary who only advocated participation in bourgeois elections for the purpose of guiding people towards revolutionary activity
Stalin, a moderate reformist, invented an entirely new ideology called Marxism-Leninism that had absolutely nothing to with either Marx or Lenin despite fighting side-by-side with Lenin during the revolution and extensively citing both of them.
“Stalin, the moderate reformist” is a new one for me so I feel like I gotta take a step back and clarify that that’s actually what you’re claiming here.
Edit:
Oh hey, Stalin cites Lenin in his book titled Foundations of Leninism and argues for the exact same position I just showed Lenin expressed! What are the odds!
If someone types a sentence or two…
They very rarely if every meant a giant essay no one will every read
Why do you think that has anything to do with Marxism-Lenism?
Well, this certainly explains why you have such a bastardized understanding of Marxism-Leninism. You certainly didn’t get it from actually reading theory. Some Youtuber told you this nonsense, right?
Why do I think Stalin’s book Foundations of Leninism has anything to do with the Marxism-Leninism term coined by Stalin? Do you hear yourself?