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Ocean Seal
13th May 2012, 19:27
Or at least that's how revleft sees it. The point that I'm trying to make is why does it seem that the majority of posts about the DPRK on this forum are generally trollish semi-racist one liners which get ~10 thanks and a minority of posts generally say something like DPRK is a workers state, its the best, or at the very least its fighting off imperialism.

But I don't think that anyone makes any effort to understand the situation in the DPRK. Leftists will go to the end of the world to fight capitalism, everywhere except the DPRK. We will go to the authoritarian 'socialist' state of China, to the belly of the beast USA, to the places with the highest living standards like the Nordic Countries, to places where the cops beat the workers, where they shoot the workers, where the workers are starving, where the workers are well fed, where communism is a sin, where religious fundamentalism reigns, but not North Korea. Not even theoretically?
But I ask why not?

North Koreans deserve socialism as well.

So lets at the very least entertain a strategy for improving the situation of workers in North Korea.

Lets Look Through a Few Topics
1.) Unions
2.) Communist Propaganda
3.) Combating Militarism
4.) Cutting back the benefits of the party members
5.) The strike, the riot, and so on

What can be done, what can't be done.

IF ALL YOU HAVE IS A ONE LINER ABOUT KIM JONG UN BEING FAT PLEASE DON'T POST.

Homo Songun
13th May 2012, 19:37
How about:

0.) expel the United States and their nuclear weapons from the lower half of their country.

Ocean Seal
16th May 2012, 16:34
How about:
0.) expel the United States and their nuclear weapons from the lower half of their country.
Hard to do from within North Korea. Fighting US imperialism is a given, but how about fighting Kim Jong Un.




Stuff
Okay but how do we attack the revisionist strain that is Juche. Ideologically, materially. Has the DPRK really had its bourgeois democratic revolution? Its on par with some of the poorest countries in the world and certainly doesn't resemble Cuba/Qaddafi's Libya in terms of freedom of capitalist development and high development.

TheGodlessUtopian
16th May 2012, 16:45
Thread split and off topic posts deleted.

Anarcho-Brocialist
16th May 2012, 17:07
You've got to remove the complete control of government there (They need a central body because they'll be invaded if not). Allow the workers' to organize and discuss how they can provide for their communities. Abolish protectionism, start trading with the world.

It's all implausible, though. Too much power will be in the hands of the people instead of the central government, and they won't allow that.