You’ll see anarchists praising Rosa Luxemburg, who if they had actually read her writings – they would see that she was very clearly one of the “authoritarian” socialists that they rail against so much.
You see them praise the Black Panthers, who were supported financially by the DPRK and aligned themselves with the Juche ideology of Kim Il Sung.
They even praise Thomas Sankara, who purged anarchists and arrested syndicalists.
If these people had succeeded, i have no doubt in my mind that anarchists would call them “tankies,” they would call their experiments “capitalism with a red flag.” And I also have no doubt in my mind that if the October Revolution, Chinese Revolution had been crushed, they would hail Lenin and Mao as proletarian heroes.
I meant that they’re anonymously sourced, which is very often the case. It might be in the NYT, but it just says “anonymous sources say…”
Like we’ve all seen this one: https://www.newsweek.com/kim-jong-un-firing-squad-conductor-1590226
But the only source is “A South Korean newspaper”. When I tried to find the original article I wasn’t able to.
This random article I’ve found is full of sourced, factual statements. But all the sources are anonymous: https://www.donga.com/en/Search/article/all/20230612/4217131/1
“a government official” “a senior member”
I think you’d be surprise how far the CIA admits to extending. Radio Free Asia is often sourced in anti-China and anti-DPRK news, and they’re publicly linked with the CIA.