Yeah that’s cool. Which is part of why I don’t get why North Korea gets any fucking love. I mean, times are hard for everyone I’m sure but aesthetics aside they don’t seem any more “socialist” than the “national” socialists. Even in all the dubious circumstances where a communist country had a presidential effectively served for the length of his natural life, aside from a brief interlude by Raul Castro none that I can recall have shown dynastic tendencies.
The DPRK is socialist, public ownership is the principle aspect of its economy. It’s no utopia, but it’s far from the dystopian hellworld the western media makes it out to be. It’s entirely different from the Khmer Rouge and Shining Path. Additionally, socialist countries haven’t been “dynasties.”
Okay cool.
So I’m sure there’s good evidence somewhere that that NK isn’t a cult of personality built around eternal president Kim Il Sung and the Kim family.
Nodutdol, an anti-imperialist group of Korean ex-pats, released a toolkit for better understanding the ROK and DPRK, as well as Japanese colonization and the US Empire’s role. There’s good resources there for beginners. Kim Il Sung is highly revered, and the Kim family is respected and loved. It isn’t a “cult of personality,” though, that’s a misframing of how the DPRK functions.
Yeah that’s cool. Which is part of why I don’t get why North Korea gets any fucking love. I mean, times are hard for everyone I’m sure but aesthetics aside they don’t seem any more “socialist” than the “national” socialists. Even in all the dubious circumstances where a communist country had a presidential effectively served for the length of his natural life, aside from a brief interlude by Raul Castro none that I can recall have shown dynastic tendencies.
The DPRK is socialist, public ownership is the principle aspect of its economy. It’s no utopia, but it’s far from the dystopian hellworld the western media makes it out to be. It’s entirely different from the Khmer Rouge and Shining Path. Additionally, socialist countries haven’t been “dynasties.”
Okay cool. So I’m sure there’s good evidence somewhere that that NK isn’t a cult of personality built around eternal president Kim Il Sung and the Kim family.
I’m here for it. Lay it on me.
Nodutdol, an anti-imperialist group of Korean ex-pats, released a toolkit for better understanding the ROK and DPRK, as well as Japanese colonization and the US Empire’s role. There’s good resources there for beginners. Kim Il Sung is highly revered, and the Kim family is respected and loved. It isn’t a “cult of personality,” though, that’s a misframing of how the DPRK functions.