u/Rosa_RedPanda

Hello everyone. The mod team of r/theredleft would like to warn about a recent statement made by a moderator of r/movingtonorthkorea.

Just to preface this, It is their subreddit and they can do what they want on it, so long as it is within reddit TOS. This is purely coming from the standpoint that this is wrong from a socialist perspective, and socialists/leftists shouldn't participate there. Do not send any hate, troll or do any brigading. Any such reports of brigading will get banned here and probably in r/movingtonorthkorea and reported to Reddit, thank you very much.

There recently was a post about Yeonmi Park made by an ACP sympathiser shared in r/movingtonorthkorea, with the endorsement on a mod team member. Said video was one made by infamous ACP adjacent account (not sure if he's an active member) MidWesternMarx. We view this with a lot of concern, as legitimizing a social chauvinist party which actively harms minorities, puts them on a backpedal, actively uses bigoted language is dangerous to many members of our community and possibly theirs too assuming they house LGBTQIA+ members or women. Haz Al-Din, one of the main ideologues if not the main ideologue of the party has, in the past, also mentioned the party should be run like a business and made a video about how 'Stalin and Mao are the real libertarians'.

Needless to say, the ACP is a bad thing to promote and legitimize as a source for any leftist/socialist news, opinions, organization or politics.

This is especially concerning due to the fact the ACP is known to target and hijack already existing socialist/leftist spaces online to legitimize their ideas, infiltrating mod teams to achieve this. Previously they've done this very directly but in many cases this has failed, with r/AskSocialists becoming filled with trolls and probably not their exact desired outcome, and most importantly, the coup attempt on r/tankiethedeprogram which absolutely was a disaster due to the open and direct nature of it. We are afraid this is a new tactic of slow legitimization by allowing the ACP bit by bit on a case by case basis when the point made is "acceptable", slowly sneaking in ACP rhetoric as normal among the left wing, even if problematic.

We do not wish to see the mod team of r/movingtonorthkorea become this, nor the subreddit in general. If this is not the intention of the moderators, we hope you can reverse course on this and take more harsh action on this to protect the left wing space from right wingers co-opting what socialism is and reactionaries which are harmful to minorities and women. If you are fine with this, we repeat that this is your choice and we will not dictate how you moderate your subreddit. This is simply a genuine critique if you want to remain a socialist hub and a safe space.