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A community about anything related to Korea, such as news about the countries (DPRK and south), discussion, photos and videos, the language, etc.

See also: [email protected], which is intended for memes rather than serious discussion of these topics.

The picture of this Lemmy community is magnolia (목란), the national flower of the DPRK. The background picture is a scenery of Pyongyang.

Rules:

  1. No imperialist apologia. The DPRK didn't start the war. US imperialist invasion was not justified. Neither are their army bases in south Korea. The sanctions were and are not justified.

  2. Be respectful. The imperialist media likes to describe the DPRK people as completely brainwashed, and that it'd be fine to completely destroy that country in an invasion. Don't act like the imperialist media.

  3. Be skeptical of your sources. Don't trust the media that has been known to report many falsehoods about Korea already. (You may still link to them if they write something interesting / worth reading, just be careful.)

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If North Korea is undemocratic, what is the USA? (lemmygrad.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You misread my point. Authoritarian systems with democratic checks n balances (One party, governed by the working class) is a concept that is fundamentally incompatible with liberal democracy as you view it since it operates under the basis of exploitative capitalism.

It is not the "authoritarian system" that deprives an individual of power but rather the economic system fostered and used by the state in acts of violence. In a democracy, power can easily be coopted by that economic system so one must be constructed to prevent a take-over. That requires authoritarianism. What form? Can vary and depend.

We have found a way. It's communism. China and Cuba are socialist. In the brief period of their existence they are more successful comparatively. Even the USSR had a similar caloric intake to the average American and had a higher home-ownership rate. What does that tell you?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean an authoritarian system does deprive people of power. By definition only a few people have power in authoritarian system.

You can have corruption in governments that aren't capitalist. It's just a matter of knowing what people want and how to manipulate them.