“Romanticization” might be the wrong word, but you certainly run across the sentiment that the cartels really aren’t that bad. The worst instance of this I ever saw was in the comments to some ultraleft “Maoist” rag – I think it was the LLCO’s Monkey Smashes Heaven – where people were saying that Mexican drug cartels are “more revolutionary” than the DPRK.
I’ve never once seen leftist spaces “romanticizing” drug cartels. They’re capitalists and kulaks and trash.
“Romanticization” might be the wrong word, but you certainly run across the sentiment that the cartels really aren’t that bad. The worst instance of this I ever saw was in the comments to some ultraleft “Maoist” rag – I think it was the LLCO’s Monkey Smashes Heaven – where people were saying that Mexican drug cartels are “more revolutionary” than the DPRK.
Do you have a link to that? Sounds horrible.