FunkyStuff [he/him]

And the last time the KMT controlled anything even nearly ressembling what they claim to be the rightful rulers of was in the 40s.

So it’s cold-ish? I’ve never been to any Mediterranean coast so I don’t know what it’s like, not any time of year nor Winter. Does your family travel elsewhere a lot?

How’s the weather?

I think you might be thinking about things the wrong way if you’ve identified capitalism as a root problem and the solution is anything other than a revolution. How else are you dealing with it?

OTOH I agree with your main point that participating in the existing political system with cadre candidates is necessary. But their main purpose is to funnel people into revolutionary organizations, moreso than wielding power directly because we don’t expect the existing political system to be useful to that end.

What sources do you recommend on how the DPRK’s government works?

If you don’t want to take me at my word, I can provide one (dumb) piece of evidence, then you can try to find some evidence to the contrary. Here’s a video where some Aussies go get a haircut in NK where they echo a lot of what I’m saying: people are just living their lives, they never interact with the government during their stay. If you have a source that says something different and isn’t from an enemy of NK then I’ll check it out.

I don’t think “government criticism should be placed where due - even if that’s everywhere” is a very useful outlook for the world. I think we should first try to understand why countries are the way they are, and give our criticisms to the system that made them that way when appropriate. Again, think about the example of Palestine. Do Palestinian groups do things I disagree with? Absolutely. Is the way to tackle that situation to criticize them? No, because they’re already facing a war of genocidal extermination, so if you want them to do better, you should first try to remove the aggravating factors that are impeding democratic forces within their camp from winning over the reactionaries. It’s the exact same situation with NK: you don’t think their government is sufficiently transparent, it’s overly punitive, not democratic enough, etc etc? They won’t change those things as long as they’re under a genocidal blockade and the whole world wants them dead.

The big bourgeoisie are usually comfortable where they are. It’s the petite bourgeoisie that are squeezed between much larger and more powerful capitalists above them, threatening to swallow their market share, and workers that steadily gain more strength below them, threatening their bottom line.

There’s an interesting connection to antisemitism here. We’re very familiar with the antisemitic tropes of Jews controlling every big financial or media institution, which maps to the material reality of large capitalists always having the edge against small ones, but there’s also a lot of tropes about Jewish workers subverting their employers’ interests. This is related to cultural Bolshevism and similar narratives in the 20th century. Nowadays I think the closest analogue is the 4chan j**t meme against South Asians taking jobs in tech fields, or the anti-immigrant hysteria.

The point is that people in the middle of the class struggle are the most likely to be the base of support for fascism because they are the ones who stand to lose the most from socialist revolution (the ultra rich can just use their connections and capital to move to another country and still be ultra rich).

You’re mixing up a lot of different concepts.

“NK is not a free country” is a meaningless sentence. What does a free country look like? Is it a country where people may achieve their highest level ambitions regardless of who they’re born to, their identity, or any immutable characteristic? Because it isn’t that, and that doesn’t exist anywhere. Is it a country where the state ?mostly stays out of people’s lives and people are generally free to do what they wanna do as long as they aren’t destabilizing things? I believe it actually is, and I know you don’t think any serious person could think that way, but I’d invite you to show me a source that offers compelling evidence that the above is not the case and isn’t from the US State Department or Radio Free Asia.

Nobody in NK is being killed or prosecuted just for their beliefs. They don’t have mind readers. I also guarantee they aren’t throwing people in jail for saying bad things to each other. Think about how ridiculous this would be to enforce, if you could claim someone you don’t like told you, in private, that they disliked the government you could get them arrested. That’s absurd.

They don’t have free speech, though, because they’re… currently still officially at war and effectively under siege by the most militarized country on earth, and its vassal state that’s armed to the teeth. If you lived in NK, would you feel comfortable with lax free speech laws and all the other “freedoms” that would allow for the enemy to more effectively destabilize and fracture the country? Because that’s been a standard imperialist tactic since the coup against Arbenz in Guatemala about a century ago.

Moreover, if I had to draw an easy conclusion from this: you’re probably a westerner, and you might even be from the US or another country that supported the imperialist and genocidal invasion of Korea. If you can understand why it would be really stupid for an Israeli, or even an Israeli leftist, to tell Palestinians what they are and aren’t allowed to do to resist Israeli aggression, what’s so hard to understand about the idea westerners whose governments are still laying siege to the DPRK being the last people who should be criticizing it? Do you think the North Korean people are just mindless drones waiting for their western saviors, who need the western left to pressure their governments to sanction and blockade the DPRK even more, to free them from the “Kim dynasty”?

Sorry, then what are you saying? You accused us of supporting fascism, I asked you what fascism we support, and you’re just freespinning now. You can check my profile if you think I’m a bot.

You said that we support fascism, then you’re saying that there’s mass starvation for the elites and that’s what I assume you mean by fascism. If that’s not what you meant, then what is it that we support that you think is fascism?

That’s not what fascism is. Are you suggesting that fascism is when some people are well fed and others aren’t?

Sure, no whataboutism then: Why do you think NK is fascist in a vacuum? Why is anything perceptible if all things, at their purest forms, are isolated atomic objects that have no relation to the rest of the world?

can you show us where the support for fascism is?

And if you’re just going to say that the DPRK is fascist, what do you consider to be more fascist: an invasion and brutal war against a tiny country that kills 20% of its population, makes the remaining population live underground, relentlessly and indiscriminately bombs the country until there are no targets left; or the country that survives that war and refuses to play by the rules of the colonizers, imperialists, and occupiers who want them to be a capitalist country like the occupied south?

Anarchism Within One Person

Maybe you should lay out a 5 year plan for sockpuppet production and distribution across the anarchist comms on lemmy, get input on it from 4 other alts, then run a great purge where you ban 2 of them.

We all need to stop centering the egos of Marxists in everything we do.

buddy you have a triple digit number of sockpuppet accounts, I think the gravitational pull of that ego is clearly much more relevant

i’m an anarchist

you’re ziq lol

the ziqleeeeer

They are deeply unserious