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?
Because your definition of authoriatarian is “anyone who is against western hegemony”
No. Nowhere in their post did they define authoritarianism. That’s a strawman. Engage with the content, don’t deflect
Read their post you will undertsand their entire ideolgy
Can you provide a single example of non-authoritarian country that’s against Western hegemony?
There’s literally never been a non-authoritarian country in the history of humanity.
Being authoritarian is not a preclusion for being anti-western hegemony.
So, no, you can’t.
If every state that opposes Western hegemony gets labelled as “authoritarian” in practice, then I fail to see the distinction.
It’s only in a purely hypothetical fantasy that you can imagine a state that opposes Western hegemony that you wouldn’t call authoritarian. As soon as that state actually came into being, you’d fall for propaganda about it, and it would have to engage with real world challenges with countering foreign subversion that y’all don’t like to think about.
At best, the only anti-imperialist projects that “anti-authortarians” seem to support are the ones that fail, or last for about a week, because then they can be imagined as being perfect.