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

[Intense Red <intnsred@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 > Incidentally, Cuba also lives under a horrific embargo from the US, but you
 > don't see the the Cuban government going about abducting civilians from the
 > US, do you?

   Bad analogy. It's one thing to commit crimes against Japan, whose military 
is defensive in nature and has only a limited ability to react militarily. 
It's a completely different thing to commit a crime against the world's 
strongest imperial nation who would see the crime as a valid reason to invade 
you and which has a military which specializes in offensive operations.

 > There is something rotten about the North Korean regime. 

   No doubt. I hardly think Marx, Lenin or Trotsky (etc.) had North Korea in 
mind when theorizing how the science of communism would evolve.

   The question I would have is similar to that of the USSR. Are the 
country's "deformities" (for lack of a better word) a result of Marxist 
theories, or is it a result of various pressures of being isolated and under 
siege -- in many, many ways -- by larger, stronger, and more developed 
capitalist powers? My thought is that it is the latter, combined with the 
respective country's own history and cultural quirks and tendencies.


-- 
Fascism is: "A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the 
extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business 
leadership, together with belligerent nationalism." -- The 1983 American 
Heritage Dictionary.

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