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[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Fascism is defined by the destruction of capital in non-military sectors, the dominance of some sectors of capital over others (beyond as laid out in imperialism to the point of contravening the typical form of the dictatorship of capital)and imperialist policies like forced labor being directed inward to compensate for a decline of empire.

Given that DPRK has industrialized throughout its history, has taken steps to shrink its military expenditures in comparison to the rest of the economy, has no dictatorship of capital within the country, doesn't use slave labor and is a historically imperialized nation as opposed to a former imperial power, I do not see how you can define the DPRK as fascist.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Eh....

The Psychological Impact of Slaughterhouse Employment: A Systematic Literature Review

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10009492/

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Are you using the formal or informal definition of imperialism here? Because I don't see how it meets the formal definition based on my understanding of the underlying economic mechanisms. For example, if they were engaging in imperialism why would Tibetan's own their own homes instead of the land being taken over and the average peasant being proletarianized/forced into urban centers or large scale production agriculture to work?

Why would them taking over Tibet be expansionist? Tibet has been part of China for hundreds of years, only breaking off during instability caused by foreign imperialist powers.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

A munch is just a social. People chat and stuff, kinky things don't happen, and it is generally discouraged to use the space for cruising. Different munch dress codes vary from "be very normycore inconspicuous" to "be decent"

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Ah, a YouTuber named "habitual linecrosser". Perhaps the "source: it came to me in a dream" commenter was too generous.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Are you claiming you know this from classified information?

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Could you cite this please?

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

What are you talking about have you never heard of ~~emperor~~ Comrade Puyi?

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Really good book! A little bit inaccessible in the first two chapters though.

Jokes aside, a good start is to join a socialist org, participate, and start developing yourself politically. I believe cowbee has a good reading list.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (7 children)

But only if you're doing what needs to be done.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could you cite that please? It isn't that I don't believe you I just want to know where you learned it.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

“Pogrom” was coined in Russia and became well known largely because of the Russian Civil War.

Weird I distinctly remember reading about pogromists being one consideration for the bolsheviks in how to participate in the 2nd Duma and that was before the Civil War.

 

Hello! I can feel a new hyperfixation coming on, does anyone have any recommendations for books about ww2 written by Marxists, preferably MLs?

 

Press Statement by Spokesman for DPRK Ministry of National Defence Pyongyang, December 2 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Ministry of National Defence of the DPRK released the following press statement "Any attack on space asset of the DPRK will be deemed declaration of war against it" on Saturday:

The brigandish nature of the U.S., which regards it as its main lever for realizing its hegemonic wild ambition to commit outrageous and unlawful military intervention against sovereign countries, has been brought to light more clearly, occasioned by the DPRK's reconnaissance satellite launch.

An official concerned of the U.S. Space Command recently spouted rubbish hinting at a military attack on the DPRK's reconnaissance satellite, saying that the U.S. can decrease the enemy country's outer space operation capabilities by employing diverse "reversible and irreversible methods".

American military affairs experts comment that the U.S. Space Force can physically destroy not only opponent's satellite and satellite earth station but also get rid of enemy state's space force through jamming and virus-using cyber attack.

The U.S. Space Force's deplorable hostility toward the DPRK's reconnaissance satellite can never be overlooked as it is just a challenge to the sovereignty of the DPRK, and more exactly, a declaration war against it.

Article 8 of the "Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies", the main international outer space treaty, stipulates that any object launched into outer space definitely falls under the jurisdiction of the launcher state and the ownership of it never changes no matter it remains in outer space or returned to the earth.

This means that the reconnaissance satellite "Malligyong-1" is a part of the territory of the DPRK where its sovereignty is exercised.

Furthermore, reconnaissance satellite is not regarded as a space weapon by international law for its technical features aimed at observation.

If the reconnaissance satellite of the DPRK is regarded by the U.S. as a "military threat" that must be gotten rid of, countless spy satellites of the U.S. flying above the Korean peninsula region every day, exclusively tasked with monitoring the major strategic spots of the DPRK, should be deemed the primary targets to be destroyed by the armed forces of the DPRK.

By openly unveiling its aggression scheme to mount a military attack on a space asset of other sovereign country, a part of its properties and territory, the U.S. has proved itself its true colors as the chief culprit of evils seeking to realize its wild ambition for dominating the world by turning outer space, common wealth of humankind, into a theater of war.

It is the mission of the armed forces of the DPRK, specified by its constitution and other laws, to exercise their war deterrent to protect the state sovereignty and territorial integrity in case a lethal military attack is carried out against the country's strategic assets or it is judged that such attack is imminent.

In case the U.S. tries to violate the legitimate territory of a sovereign state by weaponizing the latest technologies illegally and unjustly, the DPRK will consider taking responsive action measures for self-defence to undermine or destroy the viability of the U.S. spy satellites by exercising its legitimate rights vested by international and domestic laws. -0- www.kcna.kp (Juche112.12.2.)

 
 

Some U.S. officials are frustrated at the pace of Ukraine’s counteroffensive, which has gained less than 100 square miles of territory.

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