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?
Wow. Really? Technology is something that the modern West represents? Wild.
FYI, the repression of LGBTQ is RAMPANT in the West. Meanwhile, gender bending and queerness are seen all over the history of the indigenous peoples all over the world. It was the civilizations that built the West, and the West itself that spread anti-queer repression around the entire globe. The West doesn’t get to claim LGBTQ. Fuck that.
“common law” though? What? Do you mean common law generally, like, law created through precedent? Because these Western countries don’t have that: France, Germany, Spain, Italy. English Common Law is a specific historical process. In so far as they want communism, they are absolutely going to dismantle English Common Law in their home countries (UK, USA, Canada, Australia). No one outside of Common Law countries is pro-Common-Law.
And just because the US pioneered federalism doesn’t make it something the modern West represents. It’s a generic social technology that is pervasive around the world. Being OK with federalism has absolutely no bearing on whether you’re anti-Western.
As for progressivism, literally every communist country has been progressive - expanding the liberties of the masses, reducing inequality, improving governance, adapting institutions to new conditions. Like, what else is communism except literally progress?