(March 25, 2017 at 5:08 pm)Fred Hampton Wrote: Trump is a fascist/capitalist. Kim Jong Un is a Communist. So no, I don't see any resemblance in the two.
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Is he really though?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-34479606
Quote:That assertion of private action is happening in lots of ways. After the famine in the 90s, the economy started to change. Starving people found ways of growing their own food and then trading it - private markets helped relieve a problem of life and death. Once invented, these markets have refused to disappear. They are now tacitly acknowledged by the authorities. On top of that, some enterprises behave like capitalist organisations, offering managers the ability to keep profits - they get a private cut and the state gets its public cut.
Quote:A kind of creeping capitalism is occurring in North Korea.
That means there is money there - some money for some people. As well as a changing way of doing business internally, a porous border with China to the north means all kinds of goods are entering. In the department stores of Pyongyang, products are available for those who can afford them (the crucial caveat).
Not very "communist" of them. They use a system called Juche, which is allegedly inspired by socialist ideas, but the reality is a lot different. Private enterprise and smuggling is tolerated and the assholes at the top are rich while the poor suffer.
Please don't tell me you're an apologist for North Korea.
