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?
historically, it’s not absurd. it’s a return to the historical mean. it only feels absurd because people think post ww2 western prosperity is what we are suppose to have.
for most of history the nobility and wealthy and powerful controlled 99% of everything and everyone else has a existing of poverty and subsistence. the idea of a robust and large middle class is largely a product of industrialization and post ww2 order.
we are moving back into the historical norm of a subservient population who mostly exists to build the wealth of the elites with zero chance of ever obtaining any of that wealth themselves. and a lot of the tankies and other weirdos lean into this by mythologizing peasant/serf life as if it is so much better than modern middle class life. they claim they are going to bring in some utopia of utopia, but their vision ultimately will result in a highly unequal society that is more medieval than it is modern.
What the fuck are you talking about?