North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has lauded what he called his country’s fight against a U.S.-led military threat and vowed to turn North Korea into “the best socialist paradise in the world."
Decades of sanctioning and warmongering by the US and its allies has kept a small country like the DPRK on the defensive, which isn’t ideal if you want a thriving nation, regardless of its ideology.
The DPRK and South Korea are like 1984 and BNW next to each other.
In the DPRK, at least the repression is clear.
In South Korea, it’s drowned in a sea of consumerism. You have to pay premiums for healthcare, housing issues exist, and so on.
The answer is therefore, anarchocommunism; as it combines freedom of speech with freedom of life standards effectively.
Communism has always been the ideal. However, we have to take into account that we do not live in a bubble insulated from everyone else. We are facing the real, global and continuous threat of imperialist invasion by the capitalist forces. See Cuba and Venezuela, for instance.
It’s really hard to not be an ultra-militaristic society when the CIA and the enemies of the proletariat are always lurking in the shadows and looking for any miniscule gap to breach socialist countries from within. Regardless, we need to diffuse a proletarian, anti-bourgeois culture among the masses in order to inhibit the possibilities of foreign intervention.
I think it is possible to establish a society that is not militaristic. It must always be prepared to combat fascism and capitalism; but it must also have freedom of speech.
An anarchocommunist society must prevail through the full liberation of all people; it must mean that basic needs are taken care of, and that all can discuss freely without hatred, without fear of state repression. It must mean that corruption and oligarchism is nonexistent.
I do not believe in a society where everyone lives in fear; I believe in a society where everyone lives in joy for the next day.
Unfortunately when people criticize socialist countries for the lack of “free speech,” even if with good intentions, they are usually parroting the talking points of Western, bourgeois media and only serves as to justify imperialist intervention against them.
These criticisms however derive from an ignorance of the way politics work in such countries whose only perception comes from behind the iron curtain and only through the lens of fascist and capitalist media.
In historically socialist countries, democracy had always been principally practiced on the local and communal stages, where individuals had the most capacity to take decisions regarding their daily lives and the situation of their neighbourhood, locality or commune. I highly recommend reading on this topic:
Decades of sanctioning and warmongering by the US and its allies has kept a small country like the DPRK on the defensive, which isn’t ideal if you want a thriving nation, regardless of its ideology.
The DPRK and South Korea are like 1984 and BNW next to each other.
In the DPRK, at least the repression is clear. In South Korea, it’s drowned in a sea of consumerism. You have to pay premiums for healthcare, housing issues exist, and so on.
The answer is therefore, anarchocommunism; as it combines freedom of speech with freedom of life standards effectively.
I will never not read it as arachno
Communism has always been the ideal. However, we have to take into account that we do not live in a bubble insulated from everyone else. We are facing the real, global and continuous threat of imperialist invasion by the capitalist forces. See Cuba and Venezuela, for instance.
It’s really hard to not be an ultra-militaristic society when the CIA and the enemies of the proletariat are always lurking in the shadows and looking for any miniscule gap to breach socialist countries from within. Regardless, we need to diffuse a proletarian, anti-bourgeois culture among the masses in order to inhibit the possibilities of foreign intervention.
Brah, no one buys your online roleplay.
I think it is possible to establish a society that is not militaristic. It must always be prepared to combat fascism and capitalism; but it must also have freedom of speech.
An anarchocommunist society must prevail through the full liberation of all people; it must mean that basic needs are taken care of, and that all can discuss freely without hatred, without fear of state repression. It must mean that corruption and oligarchism is nonexistent.
I do not believe in a society where everyone lives in fear; I believe in a society where everyone lives in joy for the next day.
People are stupid. Look at the United States. The only way to rule these people is through fear.
Unfortunately when people criticize socialist countries for the lack of “free speech,” even if with good intentions, they are usually parroting the talking points of Western, bourgeois media and only serves as to justify imperialist intervention against them.
These criticisms however derive from an ignorance of the way politics work in such countries whose only perception comes from behind the iron curtain and only through the lens of fascist and capitalist media.
In historically socialist countries, democracy had always been principally practiced on the local and communal stages, where individuals had the most capacity to take decisions regarding their daily lives and the situation of their neighbourhood, locality or commune. I highly recommend reading on this topic:
Local Communities, a Yugoslav Take on Direct Democracy.
Soviet Democracy by Pat Sloan.