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 :)
Brain damage and a inability to find balance.
If you’re “finding balance” in an inherently imbalanced world, you’re tipping the scales.
But no, that has nothing to do with why people arrive at Marxism-Leninism as a lens through which the world can be accurately seen and as a tool with which to change it. That comes only through a lot of difficult self examination and contrasting that with a thorough and honest examination of the broader world - not just your own immediate surroundings and not just your own time period, but empathizing with other cultures the world over and learning about the history that led things to be as they are now. That is how people arrive at a Marxist-Leninist view of the world.