RE: Is it just me, or does Trump remind you of Kim Jong?
March 25, 2017 at 6:56 pm
(This post was last modified: March 25, 2017 at 8:42 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(March 25, 2017 at 5:30 pm)Alex K Wrote: I don't find the Trump Kim connection very compelling beyond Trump's similarity in character to any other megalomaniac out there. But slapping the label "Communist" on Kim to dismiss any comparison just out of principle, seems very simplistic. We all know that fascism and communism can become pretty much the same thing dressed up differently.
Kim is actually not really communist, not even just a self described one. The Kim family moved away from othrodox Marxist communism, the Marxist Leninist variatiom of the cold war soviet communist block, as well as the Maoist agrarian variation of Marxism, in the late 1970s. In fact, North Korea has explicitly removed references to communism and Marxism from its constitution. It's constitution now explicitly exhort a Kim derived, explicitly anti-Marxist ideology called Juche, which calls for a form of autarchic, ethnonationalistic, militaristic national defense state. In this sense, the ideology pursued by North Korea is actually close than usual to many of the minor fascist regimes of 1930s.
