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?
I would argue that Democratic Socialism works somewhat better than the perverse form of capitalism that exists today. It does have its flaws also. See the increasing surveillance of the population in the EU that is being pushed by politicians as a start.
At some point in the future, socialism will fail just like every other form of governance humans have devised.
Social democracy (what you call democratic socialism) in the EU depends on imperialism to function. The reason it’s deteriorating and pushing to the far-right is because of the decay in imperialism. This is a consequence of the capitalist nature of social democracy, not something that would be applicable to socialism. Socialism one day will emerge, and from it communism will, as contradictions within socialism as resolved.