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?
From a quick search, I’m not finding anything indicating such, but PSL was apparently a split from the Workers World Party in 2004 and the WWP was (in the 50s) a split from the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party as a result of that party’s opposition to the Soviet Union. So some Trotskyist roots if you go back decades, but, as far as I can tell, roots which were split away from precisely because of those roots being considered Trotskyist in a bad way.