RE: Is it just me, or does Trump remind you of Kim Jong?
March 25, 2017 at 6:31 pm
(This post was last modified: March 25, 2017 at 6:49 pm by Fred Hampton.)
(March 25, 2017 at 5:24 pm)Isis Wrote:(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-344796060Not 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.
Where was Kim Jong Un educated? If you dont know that w/o Googling it, how can you know much about the DPRK? What was KJU's grandfather's role in creating the DPRK? Does the US frequently have multiple family members run for office?
I pretty much reject across the board any Western critique of the DPRK as they have a proven track record of zero objectivity. The West is severely anti DPRK or anything resembling socialism/communism.
Ok, the DPRK is not purely communist, there hasn't been any purely communist industrial society, although some of the Maoist communes achieved Marxist style communism, egalitarian, no use of $, etc. The DPRK is socialist, it has a State and like all socialists states, USSR, etc, does have a certain level of small more or less private enterprise. About all of the major industry and banks are State run.
But ideologically, Un is a Marxist/Maoist. Trump is not a Marxist. Trump is ideologically fascist/capitalist. Trump likes Hitler. Trump hired Steve Bannon as his "main man".
And dont worry, the DPRK is not attacking the US or anybody anytime soon. Thats all US propaganda. A few years ago Iran was going to attack US--oh wait, they were developing nuclear science. Now the DPRK tests a few missiles, is exploring more nuclear to defend itself against the overt threats from the US and so obviously they too "are going to attack the US", right? So goes the story. See, the UFSA does not like any country that does not agree to it's IMF, World Bank extortion racket, so it attacks them, systematically, in a variety of ways.
The DPRK has zero bases outside its borders. The US has ~115 bases/installations within a stone's throw in Japan, ~83 on the S Korean border, and a number in N Australia. I.e., they have the DPRK redundantly surrounded.
The DPRK was a colony of fascist Japan for nearly half of the 20th century, dont know if you realize that. Thats what the north/south thing stems from.
Any sovereign country, as per international law, has the right and duty to self defense and the development of nuclear science thereof. The entire non Western world is afraid of the USA, for obvious reasons.
And if you want to bow down and worship the UFSA millionaire/billionaire capitalist oligarchy--"inverted totalitarianism"--you are free to do so. I dont.
(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.
Fascism and communism are 100% antithetic, that is why the fascists are always fighting the communists and vice versa. Words mean things, hopefully.
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