purpleworm

I appreciate your vigilance, but this is an alt for a different user. There are more things in Heaven and Earth than exist in prolewiki/lemmygrad drama.

I'm not like a Hoxhaist or anything, unlike Bland. I wasn't linking the article for the cursory defense of Albania, but the collection of direct quotes from official DPRK publications that directly contradict the most basic ideas of Marxism. Maybe I should have specified, but it just seemed to me like that aspect was obviously irrelevant.

I'm probably not helping your view of me, but I don't think the DPRK even counts as revisionist, because a revisionist is someone who claims the mantle of Marxism and involves specifically Marxist concepts, but also warps or contradicts basic premises of it. The DPRK more or less stopped claiming to be Marxist in the '90s and it's also very difficult to identify anything about them that is specifically Marxist (or even socialist, since they explicitly support the permanent perpetuation of class society) rather than a more generic national liberation project with certain strong progressive elements. The article goes over all of this in a way that is, as far as I can tell, pretty irrefutable.

It's not like I don't support them; I think that if they are able to keep surviving and their bellicose turn over the last few years (relative to the RoK, not Ukraine, though obviously the latter is motivated by the former) doesn't spell their destruction, they will probably represent a historically progressive force for the rest of my life, though that recent turn is kind of a distressing deviation from their entire previous history since the unofficial end of the Korean War. I could also make harsher criticisms, but they are off-topic because the subject at hand is materialism, and I only intended to address an inaccuracy and not disparage people who have been fighting for their lives as a geopolitically progressive force for 70+ years. If someone was repeating reactionary myths about them (for example, about Laura Ling or any of the ~5 American so-called "hostages" arrested since the war -- all blatant criminals) I would refute them just as readily, if not more so.

If you can educate me on this subject and show me the error of my ways, I would truly love to be incorrect. That said, I do have a real interest in the DPRK and am not just mouthing off because the Kims won't press the communism button.

Thank you for your service o7

A big company doing basic customer support via discord is wild. Talk about offloading expenses.

I think at that point in the Cold War, with the power of the global socialist movements, it would have been incorrect to basically kamikaze into (adequately strategic targets in) America, but it's not as unreasonable as it sounds out of context, and certainly not as senseless as the ideas of post-being-tortured-out-of-his-mind Posadas. If it actually worked, that's NATO being nearly caved in without a strong causus belli against the rest of the socialist world. The main issue is that it probably would not work.

I have no idea if he actually believed either version of what we said, I just think it would be more forgivable than it might sound, though still incorrect.

It wasn't adventurism in the formal term, Che by that point would never do something so frivolous after the experience of the Cuban Revolution. It was just not a great plan and didn't have enough support (though it certainly had some) and seemed to favor doing more warfare over the obvious task of nation-building that he absolutely could have continued with back in Cuba, and I think that last part is why it gets called adventurist, because there is a superficial similarity in terms of the vibe.

Juche is definitely not materialist. I support the DPRK having nukes and have the strongest condemnation for anyone suggesting disarmament, but I think it comes down to factors other than materialism that they have maintained the correct approach here.

I usually don't think this about footage from these rallies, but in this one in particular like half of the crowd looks distressed. Maybe it was from some element of social context that isn't obvious.

A huge scandal among the GOP is a benefit and an opportunity, so I don't think voting turned out to be a waste of time at all. Even if voting was all you did, you still helped.

"Do not be preoccupied about the day after the fall of the Islamic Republic" is the most perfect encapsulation of Radio Free Whatever-style agitation.

The party line that is being objected to is that we shouldn't participate, not that nothing will directly transpire from this. You're shadowboxing while insinuating that I am.

That's honestly kind of hilarious. I guess someone was looking to make a career off of getting clout from this and didn't realize how they come off when they just say that that's what they're doing.