“look, I know I live in a propaganda bubble, but you’d have to be brain poisoned to not believe in said propaganda”
The entire southern half of the peninsula may still be occupied by a regime originally imposed by a foreign power and run by groups who consistently advocate for the destruction of the entire economic and political structure of the DPRK. They may still be allowing said foreign power that has shown itself to be incredibly hostile towards any form of socialism or communism to host tens of thousands of military bases on the peninsula and conduct constant drills with the ROK where they act out fantasies of a renewed war with the North. They may engage in constant acts of sabotage, espionage and propaganda against the DPRK and its citizens. They may be aiding the brutal economic blockade of the DPRK that has been at the root of its issues with poverty since the collapse of the Soviet bloc. But have you considered that maybe the DPRK should just give up? The poverty and corruption in the South might be bad, but is preventing your country from being exploited by capitalism really worth the cost of not having a capitalist party to vote for? The US soldiers might rape local women at alarming rates, but is denying them a victory over your country really worth not having a McDonalds in Pyongyang? Obviously the DPRK is just an irrational dictatorship with no clear motives other than hanging onto power, and the only reason the people haven’t risen up against them is because of magic communist brainwashing.
INCREDIBLY funny to me when western “socialists” act like MLs are a “cult” that live in a “different reality”, as if MLs aren’t the largest group of socialists worldwide and the only actual successful socialists in history.
I’ll be real, I don’t like lenin and view him as a result of fascist ideas influencing marxist ideals in a way that defeats the entire fuckin’ point by reintroducing all that fascist strongman shit.
I’m not in the habit of resting on my biases though, most of this impressionbwas fir ed through discussion outside of the ML circles and I’ve never directly talked to an ML to get their explanation of their whole deal.
what’s the deal? why is this so popular, and if it’s something you can answerx why is there such a common accusation of fascist ideology against your platform?
take your time to respond, time isn’t real and I like treating the internet more like longform letter writing than a direct conversational medium these days.
You’re so completely wrong about Lenin and everything he ever said wrote or did that it doesn’t even merit debunking. You might as well have said “well I don’t know anything about this Lenin fella, but I sure don’t like his vibes! Prove me wrong!”
