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What's the consensus on PSL? (The Party for Socialism and Liberation) (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Emmi@lemmygrad.ml to c/asklemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml

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Before discovering this community, I was in a different community that proudly calls itself leftist. I posted a documentary; Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang which was very eye-opening for me.

Anyway, posting that started to really upset people, saying that the documentary is PSL propaganda. That PSL is authoritarian, backed by a Chinese Maoist billionaire and that PSL is riddled with sex abuse scandals. That of course PSL would simp for DPRK because it's authoritarian. I was even called a holocaust denier for defending DPRK.

So is PSL bad? Where can I find better information on this? I've already tried looking into PSL and it all seems okay? The sex abuse scandals I am not sure about, is there more information on this? Am I being too critical on this?

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[–] amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago

On the podcast, is it by RedPylon? Blowback: Season 3? I did look more into Korean history after posting the video and yes it’s seriously horrible. I cried reading about what actually happened there.

I just checked and yeah, that should be the one I was thinking of. And yeah, it is a hard thing to learn about. 🫂 It's one of those things where, like... I don't know, it's hard to find the right words for it. Like it's important to learn about so we know better what's going on in the world and how things got to the point that they are, so we can contend with how it is now. But that doesn't make it hurt any less on its own. The world still needs liberation.

They also justified the sanctions and military actions on DPRK because the country stole a movie director from Japan? That they also killed Kim Jong-nam in Malasya back in 2017. What is the reality of that? I can’t find anything on this other than wikipedia links that they had posted on this. And after realizing just how much propaganda western media has, I am quite disillusioned on where to learn more. (I am so glad I found this place, seriously.)

I'm not informed on this specific incident myself, but hopefully someone else will know something and chime in. I just know the west has made up some really absurd claims about the DPRK over the years. Like saying they're killing somebody for listening to kpop or stuff like that.