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?
Ok but it’s fucking ridiculous to criticize China’s foreign policy as aggressive and then defend Israel.
Marxist criticism of China is they aren’t aggressive enough! (I don’t necessarily agree with that)
Okay, I didn’t really want to get into it, but since you seem to take Riverside’s statement as fact, let me put the actual facts straight: It definitely can’t be said that the party “supports Israel”. Their official position is to stop all arms sales to Israel, sanction them and to officially recognize Palestine as an independent state. They actively participate in protests for Gaza etc, as you can read about here. The statement that Riverside referred to was a response to party members going “too far” with their criticism in the minds of the leadership, by denying Israel their right to exist. Criticism of Israel in Germany is often more careful and muted than elsewhere. Surely, you can see why that’s the case in the country that murdered 6 million Jews. They have a fine line to walk.
It’s definitely a topic you can have a discussion about. But bringing it up in this thread only served to derail the discussion. And the way they phrased it to make the party appear like they’re supporting the genocide was just plain manipulative.
The Germans murdered tens of millions of communists in the same war, why not tread carefully in their criticism of communists?