I think people get tangled up by two primary factors here:
They correctly identify that the origins of the uprising were heterogeneous and they don't consider the way that the movement was co-opted by fascists and reactionaries because, essentially, they aren't approaching this very rapid political development from a dialectical perspective. (And they accuse tankies of uncritically accepting anything that comes draped in a red flag yet they'll see some progressive or arguably revolutionary forces and just assume that the entire uprising is therefore inherently good.)
The naive, dogmatic adherence to a sort-of "It is right to rebel" line. Westerners seem to have a single-pointed focus on the act of rising up as the embodiment of revolution. While this isn't entirely untrue, just because people are rising up doesn't mean that therefore the revolution is on their side. (Building up to a revolutionary moment and setting about the long, arduous task of socialist construction are just as important to the revolution as the moment when the revolution proper kicks off.)
It's easy to side with the rebels in any given situation, especially when they are positioned as being anti-[whatever bad stuff that exists in the moment]. It takes hard work to figure out what a group of people are fighting for and to assess how they're going about it and the broader implications of this.
I think people get tangled up by two primary factors here:
They correctly identify that the origins of the uprising were heterogeneous and they don't consider the way that the movement was co-opted by fascists and reactionaries because, essentially, they aren't approaching this very rapid political development from a dialectical perspective. (And they accuse tankies of uncritically accepting anything that comes draped in a red flag yet they'll see some progressive or arguably revolutionary forces and just assume that the entire uprising is therefore inherently good.)
The naive, dogmatic adherence to a sort-of "It is right to rebel" line. Westerners seem to have a single-pointed focus on the act of rising up as the embodiment of revolution. While this isn't entirely untrue, just because people are rising up doesn't mean that therefore the revolution is on their side. (Building up to a revolutionary moment and setting about the long, arduous task of socialist construction are just as important to the revolution as the moment when the revolution proper kicks off.)
It's easy to side with the rebels in any given situation, especially when they are positioned as being anti-[whatever bad stuff that exists in the moment]. It takes hard work to figure out what a group of people are fighting for and to assess how they're going about it and the broader implications of this.
This impulse is kinda Sex Pistols politics imo.