If you really think about it, many leaders from socialist countries have used cults of personality to make themselves above everyone else. Isn’t this basically how capitalists use their own image as a way to convey power.
If you really think about it, many leaders from socialist countries have used cults of personality to make themselves above everyone else. Isn’t this basically how capitalists use their own image as a way to convey power.
Average socialist leader: pulls country out of feudalism, greatly increases life expectancy, makes higher education accessible, rallies people to the defense of the nation and beats back genocidal invasions
The people: we greatly appreciate your efforts comrade, you are a hero and a role model to future generations
People on the internet (usually westerners, sometimes descendants of genocidal invaders): 😱 😡 is this a cult???
It’s so unserious. I think it’s a case of people who spent their entire lives under the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie being unable to conceptualize having leaders that genuinely fight for the interests of the working class and therefore secure the loyalty of the people through their deeds. And coincidentally, being very concerned about people in AES countries liking their leaders too much and explaining it away as nefarious cults is something that benefits the imperialist plunderers of the planet.
This just shows, time and again, how Westerners truly do not have a toolset that enables them to think about and understand the world beyond just simply taking any event, stripping away all of its many relationships and connections to other historical processes, and categorizing it away with the most superficial abandon. I wish it was a common mentality in the West to speak only after investigation had been thoroughly done.
That’s exactly what it is.