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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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[โ€“] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Side point but I'm like 80% sure PSL has nothing to do with that documentary.

It's a great documentary tho. Members / adjacent members of PSL have made their own really good short and long-form documentaries too, like gaza fights for freedom, how palestine became colonized, several great ones on venezuela.

You're likely just encountering the standard "communism and communist parties = bad" in a lot of english-speaking spaces.

PSL has been around a long time and it'd be insulting if anarchist and other ultraleft groups didn't accuse it of everything under the sun (that they usually accuse each other of also). But because it practices demcent, and isn't some trotskyite or anarchist sex cult, It's not been shown that national or even any branch supports abuse.

[โ€“] Emmi@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly, looking into the documentary. I am really having a hard time finding a connection on it with PSL. The only thing I can find is that PSL had a screening for it sometime after 2020~