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 :)

    • masquenox@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Anything’s possible when you make shit up kiddo

      Is that why your personality cult-objects tried made-up-socialism?

              • Amnesigenic@lemmy.mlBanned from community
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                4 months ago

                Call it whatever you want, it’s still infinitely closer to actual socialism than the absolutely fucking nothing you and your ideological ilk have ever accomplished

                • masquenox@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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                  4 months ago

                  Call it whatever you want, it’s still infinitely closer to actual socialism

                  Really? Your anti-socialist ideology is “closer to actual socialism?” Closer than what, tankie? Monarchism? Scientology?