u/Outside_Bug6347 - originally from r/GenZhou
Got banned from other subreddits for this but here I go again. I consider myself a socialist, very pro Cuba, Vietnam and Laos, highly critical of Stalin and Moa but sympathetic to modern day China. Even though I have qualms with Moa (cultural revolution was a bit of a flop but I know that wasn’t his fault entirely and it had positives) and after reading a lot of work in the gulags Stalin did seem to be overly authoritarian though he did raise quality of life for many people. My main problem with this sort of modern communist Reddit community is the defence of North Korea. I do not think North Korea is defensible, South Koreans enjoy a quality of life that is clearly higher and it’s almost impossible for me to wrap my brain around anyone defending that regime. Thoughts?
u/pope-ron-paul-II - originally from r/GenZhouIf the crazy stories about NK are 90% false and the other 10% is true, how then would we judge the US which still has a torture camp in Guantanamo, and recently killed over a million people in Iraq and Afghanistan? If NK had a prison population how then do we judge the US, which has the largest prison population on earth?
u/Outside_Bug6347 - originally from r/GenZhouThis is kind of a deflection I obviously do not like the US
u/pope-ron-paul-II - originally from r/GenZhouit’s not a deflection it’s just asking to compare states and the relative context by which we judge them. if the US is basically a nazi monster, then what’s the point of trying to theoryflect on North Korea and whether or not it’s “Good enough” for western leftist people online