The D in DPRK is also "Democratic". But when they have nothing but "Kims" leading ever, and for life? I have to question if that word is applied in the same way we understand it.

[–] RedDawn@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The DPRK is actually democratic though, did you mean to compare them to the comprador bourgeois dictatorship of “south Korea”?

[–] ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Nah, I didn't understand quite who I was talking to, and chose a frame a Liberal would take the way you're taking it.

But when you're talking about Democracy within a single party? An American isn't going to understand the party as a structure to unify all, they're going to take it as the domination of one Camp over another. And that's something I need Communists to take from that same statement.

An American is not going to see anything they recognize as Democracy in the DPRK. Especially when three leaders in a row are named Kim, we're going to see a Monarchy.

Is that reality? I don't have the access to know. But I have read enough Kim Il Sung to realize how much of their theory really isn't that different from anything else leftist, just presented in a way that fit the moment for the Korean people.

[–] RedDawn@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago

So you knew what you said was incorrect but said it anyway. You shouldn’t do that, it’s just going to cause confusion.

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