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NK heir reiterates goal to feed people
I think this is a positive step for North Korea, yet I applaud Kim Jong-un as that must be a herculean task to accomplish. also, highlighted is a quote I found interesting by a defector
Rather pathetic really. Who wants a bleedin politician coming into your house uninvited and inspecting the contents of your pantry. Keep them out along with the other assorted opportunists/door-to-door salesmen trying to flog you tat. Next they'll start kissin your baby and promising you heaven on earth. Urgh!
If they could grant me food and a peaceful living, hell, why not? lol
Well my advice in that case would be dont fall for the salesman patter! And remember - its the workers that produce all the food. The politicans just get fat on the promises that they can deliver the food they had no hand in producing in the first place. All of them seem to suffer from an inflated sense of their own importance to the rest of humanity and some of us, poor souls, seem to just go along with this crap
Workers have to grant themselves those things by taking the power, not rely on some "God, Caesar, or Tribune" to deliver them.
This bizarre hope for the "benevolence of the heir" once again illustrates the basically autocratic character of North Korean statehood.
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Given all the nasty circumstances with North Korea, and all of the likely outcomes as to how this regime could turn out, I'd say this is a pretty good development for the people of North Korea.
Seriously, with all the pressure from South Korea and the US, the propaganda , and the enormous military making genuine socialism impossible at the moment, this seems to be about as best as can be hoped for.
How exactly is this news? A politician discovers a shocking new revelation: it's better to eat than to starve.
I mean, populist rhetoric reveals fundamentally nothing whatsoever about what his actual plans are. I mean, I suppose it's a baby step in the right direction that the latest state rhetoric has gone from "YOU HAVE SO MUCH FOOD BECAUSE KIM JONG IL IS GOD" to "I'm going to TRY to feed you."
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fka Commissarusa
Well if he does inherit super powers from his father and grandfather, then this goal should be easy.
I think he should go right ahead and start focusing on food supply and production, right after he builds a gargantuan monument of course.
There's a difference between an annoying salesman trying to get your money and a representative of state power making sure to keep in touch with the needs of the people thereby making sure that the state serves them
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Yeah I think I'd be quite flattered if David Cameron waltzed into my house to check how I was doing, obviously I would prefer Kim il-Sung because I'm rather a big admirer of his but I think it's quite a nice gesture.
Sure there's a difference - in the scale of the lies they tell and in the effrontry with which they utter them. At least a double glazing saleman is only trying to flog you a window. In the case of the politician the contrick is all the more transparent and ambitiously self serving. Only a sucker would seriously believe these political salesmen exist to serve "the needs of the people"
If Kim Jong-un doesn't turn things around and fix his father's fuck ups then North Korea will be fucked. I don't know if I have much hope for him though.
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my point in highlighted text is that Kim Il Sung is so beloved in North Korea with geninune effection that even a defector agrees that he is admirable.
Cause this ain't got shit to do with the self-emancipation of the workers?
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Nobody mentioned Deng Xiaoping yet in this thread?
"A new centrist project does not have to repeat these mistakes. Nobody in this topic is advocating a carbon copy of the Second International (which again was only partly centrist)." (Tjis, class-struggle anarchist)
"A centrist strategy is based on patience, and building a movement or party or party-movement through deploying various instruments, which I think should include: workplace organising, housing struggles [...] and social services [...] and a range of other activities such as sports and culture. These are recruitment and retention tools that allow for a platform for political education." (Tim Cornelis, left-communist)
Yes and what of it? Im sure he is. This does not make glorifying and prostrating yourself before the Great Invincible Ominiscient Leader any the more desirable. Im sure the volk in 1930s Germany thought precisely the same of Hitler or Russian workers of Stalin.
It is time to get off our knees and stop this sickening fawning and start behaving like responsible adults. All this placing your faith in this or that leader is one of the reasons why the world is in such a mess as it is today
The very same thing happens in Western governments too i.e. look at Obama when he was first elected...
His people? If he wants "his people" to truly be free and live good lives, why not set free the working class? Oh thats right, because his little family would lose all their precious power. Fuck NK and fuck their leaders.
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there was me thinking it was due to capitalism
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