Re: [Marxism] The DPRK (north Korea) ends truce with ROK (south) over souther...

[Intense Red <intnsred@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 > Look at Seoul and look at Pyongyang both economically, socially and
 > politically and tell me that state capitalism, or whatever the hell North
 > Korea was, did a better job of building productive forces than a
 > state-regulated bourgeois accumulation.

   A valid point. But don't forget to factor in the role the US played in that 
development. Post-WWII, the US, as the world's leading capitalist power, has 
had a policy of lowering tariffs and allowing preferential trade to 
specifically bolster key cold war hot spots. In Asia South Korea, like 
Taiwan, benefitted a great deal by these policies -- policies that are, in 
effect, a transfer of wealth to the target nation from the US.

   One could argue that the USSR had a somewhat similar, though less overt, 
policy with its allies, but the USSR had much less economic power and wealth 
to work with, and did not engage in hyper-exploitation in other areas of the 
world to help balance its net loss to targetted countries like Korea.

-- 
"The world's 500 richest people have more money than the annual earnings of 
the poorest 3 billion." -- George Monbiot.

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