The Kim family has outsized influence, largely because Kim Il Sung is still seen as a vital contributor to the establishment of the DPRK. Further, the “Eternal President” title is an honorary title still held by Kim Il Sung, as the presidency position he held was abolished after his death and decentralized. Kim Jong-Un is the General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the President of the State Affairs Commission, but these are not “head of state” positions as Kim Il-Sung had.
I’m not sure how you can claim I’m a clown, I’ve clearly done my research on the topic while your only point is “tourists can’t take unapproved pictures.”
I’m not sure how you can claim I’m a clown, I’ve clearly done my research on the topic while your only point is “tourists can’t take unapproved pictures.”
yeah, a lack of transparancy reveals how honest the “research” you’ve done is. good luck leading the armed revolution to install the next authoritarian communist regime that will lead to a workers paradise, instead of a stagnant totalitarian state!
Careful that they don’t send you to the gulag in the next purge.
Where’s my lack of transparency? I linked my sources. If you mean preventing tourists from taking photos willy-nilly, the DPRK is still at war presently, and still has instances where the US millitary murders their civilians. The rest of your comment isn’t even a point, it’s like a bingo of tired tropes lacking in any investigation.
To the contrary of your claims of “totalitarianism,” socialist states have brought dramatic democratization to society. First-hand accounts from Statesian journalist Anna Louise Strong in her book This Soviet World describe soviet elections and factory councils in action. Statesian Pat Sloan even wrote Soviet Democracy to describe in detail the system the soviets had built for curious Statesians to read about, and today we have the aforementioned Professor Roland Boer’s Socialism in Power: On the History and Theory of Socialist Governance to reference.
When it comes to social progressivism, the soviet union was among the best out of their peers, so instead we must look at who was actually repressed outside of the norm. In the USSR, it was the capitalist class, the kulaks, the fascists who were repressed. This is out of necessity for any socialist state. When it comes to working class freedoms, however, the soviet union represented a dramatic expansion. Soviet progressivism was documented quite well in Albert Syzmanski’s Human Rights in the Soviet Union.
On the whole, soviet prisons and the justice system itself were more progressive than their peers, Mary Stevenson Callcott documented it quite well in Russian Justice. The soviet union, despite having a progressive legal system, was in a state of constant turmoil caused by pressures both external and internal. They couldn’t simply delete all previously existing ruling-class people and ideology, class struggle continues under socialism. Further, pressure from the imperialist west, invasion both in threat and in action, and intentional sabateurs meant that the prisons certainly weren’t empty. The soviet union never had a single year of normal, stable growth, free from intense opposition on the outside and counter-revolutionary forces on the inside.
I know what the word “era” means, I’m a Statesian communist, not Russian. I cite historical books on the systems of democracy in socialist countries. You didn’t counter any of what I said, you just said “no.”
Awesome! Authlefts aren’t authoritarian, in fact, Cuba and the DPRK Love freedom! Look at how much freeze peach our forum has as an open place to discuss ideas!
Dbzer0 doesn’t claim to be “freeze peach.” The political compass isn’t real, and even if it was, there’s no way in hell Cuba and the DPRK could be considered right-wing. You never discussed anything either, you just repeated dogmatic tropes with no investigation nor consideration for the sources and arguments I brought.
You’re also complaining about “freeze peach” while on Lemmy.world, which is defederated from communist instances and thus not “freeze peach” either, and you only had comment(s) removed, not even a temp-ban, and this was because of your vaguely racist comment.
The Kim family has outsized influence, largely because Kim Il Sung is still seen as a vital contributor to the establishment of the DPRK. Further, the “Eternal President” title is an honorary title still held by Kim Il Sung, as the presidency position he held was abolished after his death and decentralized. Kim Jong-Un is the General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the President of the State Affairs Commission, but these are not “head of state” positions as Kim Il-Sung had.
I’m not sure how you can claim I’m a clown, I’ve clearly done my research on the topic while your only point is “tourists can’t take unapproved pictures.”
yeah, a lack of transparancy reveals how honest the “research” you’ve done is. good luck leading the armed revolution to install the next authoritarian communist regime that will lead to a workers paradise, instead of a stagnant totalitarian state!
Careful that they don’t send you to the gulag in the next purge.
Where’s my lack of transparency? I linked my sources. If you mean preventing tourists from taking photos willy-nilly, the DPRK is still at war presently, and still has instances where the US millitary murders their civilians. The rest of your comment isn’t even a point, it’s like a bingo of tired tropes lacking in any investigation.
To the contrary of your claims of “totalitarianism,” socialist states have brought dramatic democratization to society. First-hand accounts from Statesian journalist Anna Louise Strong in her book This Soviet World describe soviet elections and factory councils in action. Statesian Pat Sloan even wrote Soviet Democracy to describe in detail the system the soviets had built for curious Statesians to read about, and today we have the aforementioned Professor Roland Boer’s Socialism in Power: On the History and Theory of Socialist Governance to reference.
When it comes to social progressivism, the soviet union was among the best out of their peers, so instead we must look at who was actually repressed outside of the norm. In the USSR, it was the capitalist class, the kulaks, the fascists who were repressed. This is out of necessity for any socialist state. When it comes to working class freedoms, however, the soviet union represented a dramatic expansion. Soviet progressivism was documented quite well in Albert Syzmanski’s Human Rights in the Soviet Union.
On the whole, soviet prisons and the justice system itself were more progressive than their peers, Mary Stevenson Callcott documented it quite well in Russian Justice. The soviet union, despite having a progressive legal system, was in a state of constant turmoil caused by pressures both external and internal. They couldn’t simply delete all previously existing ruling-class people and ideology, class struggle continues under socialism. Further, pressure from the imperialist west, invasion both in threat and in action, and intentional sabateurs meant that the prisons certainly weren’t empty. The soviet union never had a single year of normal, stable growth, free from intense opposition on the outside and counter-revolutionary forces on the inside.
Do you have any real points?
yeah, that you never cite any actually eras that democratic, left wing, actually free countries had.
What do you mean by “eras?”
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I know what the word “era” means, I’m a Statesian communist, not Russian. I cite historical books on the systems of democracy in socialist countries. You didn’t counter any of what I said, you just said “no.”
Awesome! Authlefts aren’t authoritarian, in fact, Cuba and the DPRK Love freedom! Look at how much freeze peach our forum has as an open place to discuss ideas!
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Dbzer0 doesn’t claim to be “freeze peach.” The political compass isn’t real, and even if it was, there’s no way in hell Cuba and the DPRK could be considered right-wing. You never discussed anything either, you just repeated dogmatic tropes with no investigation nor consideration for the sources and arguments I brought.
You’re also complaining about “freeze peach” while on Lemmy.world, which is defederated from communist instances and thus not “freeze peach” either, and you only had comment(s) removed, not even a temp-ban, and this was because of your vaguely racist comment.
Calling out the people sending you cheques isn’t racist. I’m calling out your lack of intermediate English skills.