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?

  • Riverside@reddthat.com
    91·
    3 days ago

    as a pretext to utopian communism. In my view it spits in the face of what Marx stood for

    If you had read Marx and Engels, you’d know that they explicitly criticized Utopian socialism in favour of scientific socialism. Socialism is not supposed to be Utopian because utopias don’t exist, it’s supposed to be real, and hence unavoidably flawed.