(November 26, 2016 at 6:47 pm)Bella Morte Wrote:(November 26, 2016 at 6:36 pm)abaris Wrote: What many people fail to realize is that Kim's realm isn't even communist in the sense of the old regimes. It's a classic absolutistic hereditary monarchy, drawing heavily from Korean mythology to justify it's existence. The Juche-System, which is at the base of the Kim's rule, doesn't even have ties to Marxism. It's something entirely different and - if anything - remotely comparable to our feudal systems of old. Probably a bit closer to ancient asian kingdoms.
Most of us know North Korea isn't really communist.
But Kim Jong-un, his family and all the higher-ups working with him are still assholes.
Yea that is like arguing who was worse, Hitler or Stalin. Yea, China doesn't really like North Korea as much as they used to but NK acts as a buffer to South Korea so they put up with them. But the other reason the put up with NK is that they don't want a North Korean refugee problem if there were a war. North Korea is not communist, it is it's own brand of totalitarian state.
As with Stalin and Castro, North Korea, even with their different styles are still authoritarian states, but Hitchens did rightfully point out that the god character of the bible was a "celestial dictator'. So when western theists claim atheists love these monsters, that is simply absurd. Stalin and Castro and North Korea are simply different worships of a state, their own religions, of party and or family.
