North Korea

[Dharma]

What is North Korea's economical system and governmental system referred to by revolutionaries?

[Pogue]

Depends. To some its state capitalism, to others its socialism, for others its adegenerated workers state, to others still its an authoritarian dictatorship, etc etc.

[Pogue]

I think the most realistic analysis is that its an authoritarian state capitalist system.

[Dharma]

Thank you man.

[Pogue]

edit - did thank me :D ty

[Pogue]

oh nvm, you did thank me, cheers :D

[Omi]

Juche, is the official state ideology. It is not merely authoritairian state capitalism, because they have created a whole mythology/some sort of twisted religion around it. I would almost call it a theocraty wrapped in wierd ultra-authoritairian socialist propaganda. But I would never call it communist, and it's also far from anything socialists aspire to.

[KurtFF8]

It's hard to call it socialist in my opinion. There's quite a good documentary on it called "North Korea: A Day in the life" that has an interesting view of a textile factory and the factory meeting that happens after. While technically it seems that workers have an input, they are basically put in a position to blame themselves for failures and have to rehearse their hatred for America before they start the meeting.

Al Jazeera has a condensed version and it can be seen on youtube:
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I believe the full version is on google video/torrent/dvd

[Robespierre2.0]

Officially, Juche, meaning 'Self-Reliance'.
Juche is a revisionist offshoot of Marxist theory, as it is based around idealistic concepts such as 'man being the master of all things', and the Kim cult. It's interesting, and I love the culture that came out of it, but it is not 'correct' Marxism. However, they have a revolutionary government with mass support, and collective property is the dominant form of property in the DPRK, so therefore, technically, we could call it socialist.
Check out this thread:
http://www.revleft.com/vb/understanding-north-korea-t57722/index.html?s=bc17c810fa02f456b60a5dfdbbb86ee7&s=2e f9e7660fd8ef86246a174994243c39&t=57722

[Qayin]

Kim Is a piece of shit and all leftists should denounce him for his weird theocratic-authoritarian-dictatorship hes got going on

I mean the cult of personality and how so many starve to death in gulags hes no better then a fascist.