Sufficient brain washing education by renowned state institutions will make you bark like a dog against strawmen and only be able to hear what conforms to those strawmen give you the information you need to discern those pesky authoritarians from spineless opportunist reformers real leftists!

And also it's worth giving them some critique anyway both for the purpose of benefiting their resistance and also just general human benefit (e.g. homophobia bad, though it doesn't invalidate the whole project because it is not inherent to the project)