Wow, a whole press release with zero evidence, a couple pictures of soldiers holding DPRK flags that are obviously freshly unpackaged, not captured from a battlefield, and a bunch of unrelated videos.

Quality piece of news they are using to justify all their racism!

Just another day on .world, I suppose.

WTF is this social credit score nonsense? This is AMERICA. Keep that stuff in communist CHINA.

Joke is on us, they got us all to read the WSJ!

The whole time I was reading that I was like, "this has to be a bit right? It's a bait and switch...here comes the switch...here it comes...wtf, it's not coming!"

It's not like I don't expect racism, but how can you seriously write something like this? How can people relate to this? This guy has some serious issues all over the board. Checking all the fucking boxes! He needs an intervention and reeducation before he acts on these thoughts. Shit is coming soon.

The definition of Imperialism you are working from is not the same as those replying to you. You are working from the non-Marxist definition of imperialism while others are working from the Marxist definition. From Prolewiki:

Lenin is often credited for having synthesized a Marxist analysis of imperialism with the publishing of his pamphlet Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism in 1916, most notably on the foundation of the earlier work of John A. Hobson entitled Imperialism: A Study. Beginning with the first paragraph of his pamphlet, Vladimir Lenin wrote that rapid growth of industry and concentration of production in growing enterprises represent the key characteristic of capitalism.[1]

Multiple theorists have updated, deepened, developed or critically engaged with the classical analysis of Imperialism. Other theorists developed different conceptualisations, including most notably Kwame Nkrumah, remaining situated within the framework of scientific socialism. Most recently, the concept of neoimperialism has emerged in the work of Cheng Enfu.

The development of imperialism in the global economy also reinforces a dialectical relationship between core-periphery countries, mainly dependency and subordination of underdeveloped countries to imperialist economies. In conjunction with these developments, new theoretical models were proposed to understand developments, such as dependency theory and world-systems theory.

Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism for more information.

They will be the death of attack helicopters.

Damn, can't argue with the quality of this rhetoric. Guess I'll just have to support the genocide.

Which do you prefer: the New York Crimes or the Failing New York Times?

Personally, I'm all about "that bourgeois rag."

Do you understand why the firewall exists?

If you're not aware of how democratic centralism works, may I suggest reading Chapter Three of Anna Louise Strong's "This Soviet Life." My issue with your comment was not about the election in Taiwan, but your use of the word totalitarian.

If you think getting a mere 40% of the vote (of those who participated) and then being allowed to dictate to 100% of the population is unquestionably the best only form of democracy, then I strongly recommend you read that chapter. It's quite short and easy to read.

As to how this is related to owning the means of production, maybe this will help you understand how who owns the means of production plays a major role in how a country and elections are run. It's a matter of who has the power to give authority, not who has authority to use that power. Representatives who were voted in by <40% of the population and whose actions are not beholden to even those 40% sounds a lot more totalitarian to me.

It gets worse than this.

Not only does most scientific instrument software become abandonware, but there are companies that sell instruments that use the exact same components as they did 20 years ago. The only difference is now they swapped the stainless steel parts for plastic and charge luxury car prices for what will be a piece of garbage in 3 years. These pieces have nothing to do with chemical compatibility and everything to do with increasing the frequency of maintenance that the older models never needed.

Geopolitical Economy Report recently put out a great video examining the economic growth of China and how Deng Xiaoping Thought played a role in their economic growth.

Your comment did a great job at introducing the topic, and there is so much more to the story. Hopefully comrades will enjoy learning more about the topic as well. China has truly become one of the most successful countries of our time and it's a real shame how much sinophobia has distracted discourse on the subject.

Thankfully it seems only the imperial core continues to willfully ignore their successes.