hello everyone - you may know me as @[email protected]. just recently, i got banned from hexbear for “history of repeating US state department talking points, anti-socialism and zionism”, as well as possible “fedposting”.
let me clarify that although i strongly support socialism and the ideas of liberating people from their corporate overlords, i am still learning about this. if anything that i’ve said on hexbear are considered “us state department talking points”, as well as “antisocialism”, “zionism” and even “fedposting” by the hexbear mods in any way, i sincerely apologize.
i personally disagree with stalinism, i mostly prefer the more libertarian forms of communism (like council communism, for example), but i’m open to hearing any and all perspectives from all parts of the socialist spectrum, whether it be marxism, leninism, stalinism/marxism-leninism, trotskyism, de leonism, social democracy, democratic socialism, georgism, libertarian socialism, market socialism, syndicalism, anarcho-communism, and even maoism and the likes.
i myself support a fusion of left-libertarianism, market socialism, georgism and de leonism. i’m also NOT a federal agent, i do NOT intend on entrapping people, and i oppose the actions of ice agents, as they are using force.
to any hexbear admin or mod, i apologize for any comment that i’ve made that can be seen as “repeating US state department talking points, antisocialism and zionism”
i really hope this clears that up.
The reason is because you do things like list a bunch of contradictory positions you hold, and the extent of your analysis is “they sound good,” rather than a strong grounding in theory and learning from what actually works. This is on top of your demonization of Marxism-Leninism as “Stalinism,” and general opposition to actually existing socialism, which was repeated.
If you’re genuine, I made an introductory Marxist-Leninist reading list. Check out section 0a, it will give you an excellent primer on why we Marxist-Leninists support Marxism-Leninism and actually existing socialist states, and don’t just add a bunch of contradictory positions to our shopping carts and form a brand new ideology.
china: technically state capitalism, but their brand of market socialism is good - beautiful scenery
north korea: juche, very isolationist
laos: pretty good, beautiful scenery
vietnam: also pretty good
I don’t think your current strategy of just throwing together whatever sounds good to you at the time has any chance of working in real life.
Actually existing socialism refers to places like the PRC, Cuba, former USSR, Vietnam, Laos, DPRK, etc, where public ownership is the principle aspect of the economy. The PRC has markets, but as public ownership is the principle aspect and the working class is in control of the state it is a socialist country. State capitalism would be more like Singapore, or the ROK.
Videos generally aren’t the best. There are often audiobooks that are helpful.
well i think i DIDN’T put anything in my comments that resemble opposition to actually existing socialism - the dprk is very authoritarian and isolationist, but china, cuba, vietnam, laos and such are pretty good countries (beautiful scenery and such). north korea’s scenery is also pretty beautiful, especially mount paektu.
the reason why i called china state capitalism is because much of the economy is state-owned and since the late-1980s runs on a market economy.
The DPRK is “authoritarian” against capitalists and landlords, and is incredibly demonized by the west. China having markets does not make it state capitalism, state capitalism refers to economies where private ownership is the principle aspect and the state dominated by capitalists, with strong state control over the economy. China is socialist.
what about the cult of personality of the dprk towards the ruling kim family?
There isn’t one. The Kims are revered due to the role Kim Ik Sung played in kicking out the Japanese imperialists and leading the WPK, but that isn’t wrong or a sign of anything nefarious. That’s like asking about the cult of personality around the Clinton family or Bush family.
i think the reason why north koreans were crying over the deaths of kim il-sung and kim jong-il is simply because they were forced to, i think
This is wrong, though. People from the DPRK cried all over the world like in China, and were observed to be doing so, or generally were quite sad. They weren’t forced at gunpoint to cry.
The following is not a perfect article, but it goes into quite a bit of detail answering that question.
https://leftistcritic.wordpress.com/2018/02/17/the-myth-of-the-kim-dynasty-the-reality-of-democracy-in-juche-korea/
there is democracy, NOT “autocracy”: north korea did have multiple political parties such as a social democratic party and even a buddhist party, but those parties are in a coalition called the “Fatherland front”
i said “cult of personality” because they treat the kim family (including current supreme leader kim jong-un) as if they were royalty - i think choe ryong-hae (the chair of the presidium) should’ve stayed recognized as the head of state after 2019, and he can be recognized as real royalty. seriously!
Are you making these points as arguments with me or with the table of contents on the article I linked that you didn’t read? Because I didn’t make any claims, I just quoted the section titles to make it clear the link was directly answering the exact question you asked Cowbee.