I think a lot of western leftism is less focused on building a movement and more on carving out little leftists enclaves where you can LARP like you're living in a post-capitalist society. And the thing is, it's easier to do that under a bourgeois liberal democracy than a AES state. The bourgeois don't care about your zucchini farming commune, have fun fuckers it's not challenge to our power. The Party Chairman who's survived 3 assassination attempts this year alone is maybe within his rights to suspect your utopian commune could become a CIA gun smuggling front and may shut it down.
Anyway that's why I think certain "anti-authoritarian leftists" defend western liberal democracy, internally they're a more welcoming space for social experimentation.
I don’t remember exactly but one guy wanted to use the patron money to start a brewery, don’t remember if he actually did it. I think the others released an episode or two where they talk about it. IIRC all the episodes are on archive.org somewhere
Literally a running joke in my town is the only time you have to lock your car doors is late summer because otherwise you'll come back from a store and one of your neighbors will have left 5 pounds of zucchini on your passenger seat.
Nah they just slurp up US state department propaganda thats served to them like it's candy. They really think AES states are indistinguishable from fascism and that the US is good but flawed and just needs some reforms.