Banking on name alone to get him where he needs to be.

Amerika loves political dynasties, but I don't think they love em that much so as to elect a guy who doesn't say shit about his actual plans and beliefs.

Though sleepy Joe got elected pretty much entirely on the basis that he ain't Trump, so who knows.

A paragraph or two... I mean, I can give you a couple of examples I suppose.

Kim Il-sung is called the "Eternal President" not because of some esoteric, Oriental mysticism that posits that he is still president of the DPRK, but because he was the first and last president of the DPRK. He is the eternal president quite literally, and it's fucking weird how much western media obsesses over this as if northern Koreans believed his spirit still ruled over them or something.

The DPRK never "abandoned" Marxism-Leninism or socialism in favor of "Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism" or Juche. The WPK are scientific socialists, and honest science necessitates changes in understanding and practice. Juche is not an economic system, Juche is a sociopolitical ideal intended to rectify the contradictions between the self and the other, between the individual and the community, between the proletarian, the professional and the intellectual. Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism could be read more closely as Socialism with Korean Characteristics, if one would want to. It is not deviation or abandonment.

"Supreme Leader" is a term often weaponized to evoke that same sense of Oriental mysticism and brainwashing.

The DPRK's parliament is called the Supreme People's Assembly. The WPK leads the SPA. What do you think the chairman of the WPK (a position which Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il, and Kim Jong-un were all elected to) would be called?

I am unsure what else to say. DPRK is great on disability rights. A majority of the country has a mobile phone. There are video games in hospitals. People eat groceries. Kids go to school. The beaches look wonderful. Pyongyang has a fantastic public tram service.

Any time a news outlet claims DPRKorea said something negative about other "races" (notably in that shitpile "The Cleanest Race") they are deliberately mistranslating the word "nation" or "nationality" in order to construct the narrative they desire. Any specific questions?

I want to respond to this comment telling you that you should be killed for something you said, to make a point, but I won't because it's gross. You're a human being, I'm a human being, and neither of us are fascists. It would not be fun for either of us to receive a reply, ostensibly from a 'comrade', that us and our kind deserve to be exterminated.

It seems to me Monsieur is immature and uneducated, especially if they are equivocating critical support for Russia to fascism, or even accusing Russia of being a fascist state when compared to, idk, any other European nation. They need to log off and reflect on the way they interact with others.

Not tasteful? He told a communist user directly that they needed to be killed.

If not a fascist, if not a liberal, just a fucking moron. Regardless, a provocateur, and he deserves ceaseless mockery.

The fact that Popper is the one constantly cited re: the paradox of tolerance almost makes me immediately dismiss anyone who brings it up, even if the point is there.

Popper was an anti-socialist hack with very little useful to say. Unfortunate that he had that one good thing to say.

I know plenty, including family members.

look at em go

We have seen this wet dream realized in Yugoslavia. Remind me how that's going?

Libs be like commies are fascists and then go on to constantly propose breaking up socialist countries into literal ethnostates

Strange that this ostensibly weak and unstable nation has such a strong intelligence agency so as to be able to pay us to defend them online.

FWIW I'm a broke statesian. Here's the thing as well, you parrot propaganda and then disengage when it is examined critically and thoroughly, something many of us have devoted literal days of our lives doing.

I am more aware of the inner workings of the DPRK state than any bourgeois "journalist". Many of us are. If you'd like to learn with us, I'd suggest not implicitly accusing us of being bots or paid actors.

Yeah, they don't really need any excuse whenever they've already manufactured an imaginary enemy out of us. Regardless of how, idk, normal and sane or whatever we all tend to be (because we're human fucking beings), to them we are

1. warmongering Putin stans
2. LGBTphobic (hilarious given our demographics)
3. basically Nazis, maybe even worse
4. Sinophiles and Islamophobes
5. literal bots
6. terrorists

on and on and on. Reading those comments is simply a sight. There is no conversation to be had.

The thing that bugs me the most is the admin worship. I'll be the first to say as a regular user here, any of you admins start doing silly shit I won't "respect your decision", I'll criticize your asses for it. I know you'll listen, though, because you're not petulant liberals who throw tantrums when presented with the mildest criticisms.

Dotworld really does seem to be becoming just like reddit. I thought the whole appeal was decentralization and community building, but I guess it's really just an ego-fluffing project.

The DPRK has only existed as a political entity for 75 years. Kim Il-sung is their founding father. He died in 1994.

Do you expect them to not venerate him to some extent? The WPK ejected the Japanese and Amerikan imperialists who raped and murdered millions of Koreans -- who stripped them of their national and cultural heritage, their language, their names, their fucking humanity. The WPK brought that all back. Kim Il-sung was chairman and president. The last president before the position was abolished, hence the title "Eternal President".

Kim Jong-il was his son and helped manage to maintain Korean sovereignty in the face of the collapse of most of the socialist world, in the face of the west turning its guns towards the now destabilized smaller socialist nations. He died in 2011. He was general secretary of the WPK.

If Abraham Lincoln died 12 years ago, how do you think Amerikans would treat his memory? If George Washington died 30 years ago...

I do not know why I waste my time. Maybe for those reading this actually interested in learning, for those reading this that are not so horribly racist as to utterly dehumanize an entire people. Your complete ignorance of the ways Amerikan civil religion permeates this nation is very telling, as is your abstraction between Amerikan and Other civil religions.

I live on Washington street. It borders Monroe street and Jefferson street. All literal slaveowners. Yet you take umbrage with a nation's reverence for the man who helped lead his people in liberating themselves from people with mindsets just like yours... in living fucking memory! Those poor, brainwashed Koreans. They just need to be Westernized/Japanized/liberalized/vaporized/insert-whatever-racist-bullshit-you-believe-here, right? Not like they're human beings with the agency to make their own fucking choices. Fuck you.

https://dprk.quora.com/DPRK-Master-Post-No-1

read up

Watch In The Name of the People.

It's a Chinese cop show, but instead of poor black people like in Amerika, they hunt down corrupt party officials and bourgeois scum circumventing Chinese law. It's amazing and available for free with English subs on YouTube.

Admin/moderator of r/AgainstHateSpeech, or whatever it's called. They are almost hilariously infantile, yet it is in no small part their fault that reddit quarantined r/GenZedong after they brought the sub under further scrutiny during the apex of the Uyghur genocide discourse.

Of course, us commies were deemed genocide deniers (I mean, you got me there I guess) and anti-Uyghur racists for criticizing violently Sinophobic myths and exaggerations, and then quarantined. I'm sure there are other reasons, but IIRC the quarantine is primarily the result of BardFinn's efforts.

Otherwise, they are the archetypical :: moderator. Language policing, banning any and all dissenters, stirring shit up. Probably a fed.

HAHAHAHAHA

SHUT THE FUCK UP SO WE CAN GO BACK TO BRUNCH

same my fuckin wisdom teeth hurt

Yeah, iirc he made mention of Farrakhan having some good ideas and having been inspired to read the Quran after getting out of prison. I made mention of Malcolm X and he said he'd look into him. Every time the question of fully blown segregation came up he 'Ahuhuah, I'm not like, totally racist or anything but you gotta admit that black people racist nonsense racist nonsense racist nonsense."

Something something black people for black people white people for white people, with extremely little interaction between them and like, 'peaceful coexistence' as separate ethnostates?

I think I remember pressing him quite a bit on shit, but he changed the subject when it became too critical or intense, and put up walls at certain points, "we've gotta defend our people" ??? who are our people? whites? Muslims? American whites only? Fuck, this shit is so incoherent. Defending 'our people' was a non-negotiable starting point.

Like I said, wasted, so I let it be and went on talking about our favorite cigarette brands or whatever. But I won't ever forget it, and I won't be so utterly stumped the next time I encounter political ideals in such eclectic and fucked up forms. That interaction inspired me to read the (an anglicized version of the) Quran, and as is common with religious texts -- especially the high quality poetry as seen in the Quran -- I found the meaning I wanted out of it, and that meaning was mostly quite lovely.

He, from my perspective, was projecting his fear and hatred onto Islam and the Quran and abusing them to solidify and justify his prejudices. He sought affirmation of his hate and he found it.

I once had a coworker fucking uno reverso card me when he started talking some weird white Islamo-nationalist shit and then went onto some really racist tirade against black folk.

He kept talking about the need to defend ones' own people, so I brought up the Black Panthers and what they stood for, what they did in service to not only black people but for the people entirely. I told him they protected their own and that our state killed them for it.

He brought up Hitler. He said "just like Hitler, he was protecting his own"!

I don't even remember what I said after that, I was flabbergasted and almost certain we were both wasted.

It is far better, I think, to be specific on the work of history or theory you're advocating for than to tell others to read a book/learn history/etc. Many such works are integral to destroying the braincage of, for instance, Amerikan exceptionalism.

In a hypothetical conversation wherein I am trying to dissuade someone from engaging in Amerika apologia, I would recommend Rogue State and Killing Hope by William Blum before anything else, while giving them my own thoughts and opinions regarding Amerika's crimes.

Were the issue, say, unconditionally defending the traditional family structure, I would cite Engels' The Origin of the Family. The necessity of the state and the banality of most "anarchism"? On Authority and Anarchism or Socialism? by comrade Ioseb. I would also direct that someone to read these works.

And other works, depending on specificity of issue and political learnedness of the individual being engaged with. If there is a point to my rambling, it's that literally saying "read theory", while potentially a funny (and fair) meme to throw at trolls and bad faith actors, doesn't do much for educating anyone. What theory? I think that's important.

We should be able to understand that theory and history well enough to put it into digestible reality for the working class, of course. But directing others to that theory only strengthens communism's presence in political thought. Those who become educated in said theory will tell others who will tell others. This is good.

And I guess, for honesty's sake and for anyone reading who potentially does the same, I have told others, in the past, to "read theory" without diving into specifics because I did not heed my own advice and thusly could not actually give them specifics. I was being hypocritcal in my posturing, at the time.

It's definitely important to read and understand. It's also incredibly important to treat others with empathy and as fully cognizant beings capable of rational thought, who when guided towards genuine education and not hit with directionless platitudes may actually change their understandings of the world. For the most part, anyway.

It's worth noting that no one expects you, the reader of this, to know everything, nor do you have to. We strive to learn as much as we can, and that is a worthwhile endeavor. Just as worthwhile is putting that knowledge into action.