Sensible is when you believe that the DPRK is Mordor, Russian people are orcs who don’t know what toilets are, and genocide is only bad when it’s the orange man doing it
People support the DPRK in its struggle for similar reasons people support Cuba: they are socialist countries that have achieved remarkable results despite intense sanctions thanks to their systems. It isn’t “totalitarian,” such a term is meaningless to begin with, it’s a socialist state.
The reason Marxists don’t support Scandinavian social democracy is because it’s both capitalist and imperialist. Private ownership is the principal aspect of the Scandinavian countries, not socialism, and as such Scandinavian countries are neither democratic nor socialist. Instead, they plunder the global south to fund their safety nets while providing enormous profits to their ruling class.
Why can’t you people just vouch for Scandinavian democratic socialism? It’s clearly the only thing that’s working in this fucked world.
Probably because they fund their social democracy through pillaging the third world. Or the fact it does nothing to address the root issues of modern society (imperialism and the contradictions of capital). Among other issues.
Haha, sometimes I miss having the radlib blend of absolute conviction and absolute pigheaded ignorance. Have you ever been to Korea? Have you ever spoken to someone from the DPRK? Or do you “know” what you know about it in the same way you “know” what you think you know about every Designated Enemy country? Would you call Gaza an authoritarian Islamist shithole? Why or why not?
Sensible is when you believe that the DPRK is Mordor, Russian people are orcs who don’t know what toilets are, and genocide is only bad when it’s the orange man doing it
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People support the DPRK in its struggle for similar reasons people support Cuba: they are socialist countries that have achieved remarkable results despite intense sanctions thanks to their systems. It isn’t “totalitarian,” such a term is meaningless to begin with, it’s a socialist state.
The reason Marxists don’t support Scandinavian social democracy is because it’s both capitalist and imperialist. Private ownership is the principal aspect of the Scandinavian countries, not socialism, and as such Scandinavian countries are neither democratic nor socialist. Instead, they plunder the global south to fund their safety nets while providing enormous profits to their ruling class.
Probably because they fund their social democracy through pillaging the third world. Or the fact it does nothing to address the root issues of modern society (imperialism and the contradictions of capital). Among other issues.
Haha, sometimes I miss having the radlib blend of absolute conviction and absolute pigheaded ignorance. Have you ever been to Korea? Have you ever spoken to someone from the DPRK? Or do you “know” what you know about it in the same way you “know” what you think you know about every Designated Enemy country? Would you call Gaza an authoritarian Islamist shithole? Why or why not?