Crazy things to say about a country that’s also building 50,00 units of entirely free housing in its capital.

Is the article in the post the only thing you can see about NK?

Where are you getting these ideas from?

Is it conspiratorial to suggest NK isn’t exactly a ‘‘free’’ country with free speech? That it’s an authoritarian regime? I thought this was common knowledge.

The irony is that NK is known for its repression of its people.

It’s certainly amongst the worst if you’re not pro-authoritarianism.

Yeah, authoritarian… no thanks.

Besides war, fascism is known for it’s crackdown on opposing thought. Banning of factions like you said, is one red flag. He created a single-party state.

Then there’s the suppression of opposition along with massacres in the Red Terror. Then you have the ‘‘war communism’’ he instated from 1918-1921:

The system has often been described as simple authoritarian control by the ruling and military castes to maintain power and control in the Soviet regions, rather than any coherent political ideology.

And this guy is lauded as an anti-imperialist figure?

I’m familiar with the horseshoe theory. I am not against being far-left.

But from my [limited] understanding of the figure, he did a u-turn on his policies the minute he came to power, and became the thing he was supposed to destroy [fascism, dictatorship] instead of actually applying communism/socialism the way it was intended (i.e. to liberate the working class from the social elites and restore the means of production back to them).

CMIIW.

see my other comment in this thread

I’m commenting on NK in general, not just what this article is talking about. NK is the capital of some of the worst human rights abuses, torture, lack of transparency and free press in the world. It’s an authoritarian regime that controls its populace through fear and capital punishment.

It’s not exactly ‘‘goals’’ as a country.

Just because we cannot currently categorize the output does not mean the thoughts exist in the supernatural plane.

You cannot assert they are material, either. It’s about observation, though, not merely categorization.

This just means we likely won’t know everything, not that there is something we cannot know, period.

If you can’t know everything, there’s at least something(s) you can’t know.

It does not. Matter continues to change. Water can boil and return to liquid over and over again.

And because these processes are occurring, they could not have arisen from an infinite loop, because that would suggest infinity had passed for them to occur, which is impossible.

Brainwaves and activity are not thoughts. We cannot actually directly ‘‘observe’’ the thoughts themselves. We can’t look at someone in a lab and be like, ‘‘ah yes, he really wants to go play football right now’’, that’s not something we can observe.

How so? What stands beyond the possibility of knowing, if not the supernatural alone?

Human limitation, for one. We are not omniscient or omnipotent, nor will we ever be. We’ll never have the full picture of the totality of reality, even if progress can be made. Our limitations are inherent to us, limitations in our mental ability, perception, senses, etc.

This doesn’t follow, though. The point isn’t for it to be completed. Infinity as a concept exists, even if we never reach it in reality, the capacity for always increasing does.

It follows necessarily. If it’s not completed, no process or matter can arise. Because we know these processes/matters exist, they can’t be coming from an infinite loop.

Square circles and married bachelors also exist as concepts.

There’s really no good image-discovery social media platform like X/Insta. I’ve tried a few, and they either lack algos, or have negligible user base, either of which make them useless.

You believe the propaganda because you’re comfortable enough to not care to question it. But when things get bad, when quality of life is in the shitter these methods will not be that effective.

I mean just how bad does it have to get for people to wake up? Look at America, ICE, the anti-women, anti-trans, anti-gay policies he’s pushing, deportations, etc.

Social media often spreads anti-capitalist messaging, even if it’s censored, simply due to people feeling the need for it due to capitalist decay.

Can you explain?

Eh?

Is China being used as an example of valid communism/socialism? Isn’t Chinese Communism (i.e. the form practiced by the CCP) completely off?

leftist doesnt mean communist

NK isn’t exactly a haven though.

How do you know thoughts aren’t outside the material world if they cannot be observed?

This doesn’t mean everything will be known, just that it can be.

This is still an unproven assertion; it is not necessarily true.

I don’t see what you mean by an “infinite regress” here.

If anything has to form through a process where it has to pass through an infinite number of processes or forms of matter, it should never arise, because infinity can never be ‘‘completed’’.

Evil here just means apathy; the reason could be literally any thing? I.e. they would need a reason to care.

Why was having prisons a necessary step?

It’s more reasonable when contextualizing the population transfer to recognize it as a mistake, but not one made out of a supernatural “evil,”

What is colloquially referred to as ‘‘evil’’ can be explained in plain material terms: people in power often do not care about the ethical or human consequences of their actions, and so they do not have reason to prioritize the health and wellbeing of their victims.

Not well-read on communism, why is Lenin often cited in marxist discussion; wasn’t he a terrible person who created fascist rule?

I’m not typically inclined to the metaphysical, but consciousness is the rare case where I am. How do you explain consciousness in a materialist worldview? Just random processes and atoms that evolved for us to be able to be self-aware and alive? Not very compelling, I suppose it doesn’t register experientially, for me, at least. This would also apply to mental illness and how people can literally die of a broken heart [I’m referring to heart conditions, not suicide, here]. Though I’d like to hear if there’s more.

Other issues:

The 3rd premise of Early Materialism here is very much an unproven assertion, not much unlike those of Idealism. The 3rd premise of Dialectical Materialism (under moving from metaphysics to dialectics) implies an infinite regress, which fails to explain how anything exists, because if an infinity has to pass before the current process/matter can exist, it should never exist.