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?

  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    PSL has been great in my experience. They do receive funding from a singaporean billionaire but I genuinely believe he is a class traitor

    • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 months ago

      To add on to this point for clarity: revolutionary efforts have to be bankrolled from somewhere and there’s nothing glamorous or pure about poverty. “Receive funding from” is not always the same as “working for the class interests of.” Class traitors are a thing, as you say, and as far as I know, PSL behaves like an organization in the interests of the working class and the colonized, imperialized, etc. If it were to start acting in openly imperialist ways and funding pointed to a bunch of billionaires and filling its ranks with capitalists, that would be a different story.

      One guy isn’t representative of the capitalist/imperialist class as a whole.