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?
Unfortunately the existence and hegemony of the US in the previous century has de-facto meant that yes, you need an iron Fist to fix things and to maintain such things. The question is who wields this fist. In capitalism, the bourgeois wield it, they exercise this violence everyday (e.g. half a million murders yearly through economic sanctions by the US and EU alone). In socialism, it’s the working class who wield it against capitalists, and you’ll never forgive them for doing so.
I support the system that feeds the children and kills Nazis.