On the 24th of July I arrived in Pyongyang in a travelling party with five others, including Dr Tim Anderson, lecturer in Political Economy at USyd. At the jet bridge we were greeted by Tammam…
that line made me smile. Western imperialist nations have regular housing crises that crash the whole economy and here's the DPRK using an actual common sense solution.
the only way to fix housing is by removing its commodity status
but the thinking here is a bit flawed as the latter doesn't necessarily lead to the former, the housing sector was an especially problematic part of the USSR and china (again, less so than in any capitalist country as people weren't homeless - my issue is with this impression that moving around becomes easy once you socialize the sector and that's just not true)
i think in the DPRK's case it worked because they were the industrialized part of korea, even after all the destruction from the war they were still way ahead of the occupied part of the peninsula
so i suppose the construction sector was pretty good already
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that line made me smile. Western imperialist nations have regular housing crises that crash the whole economy and here's the DPRK using an actual common sense solution.
DPRK: Not left, not right, but forward!
the only way to fix housing is by removing its commodity status
but the thinking here is a bit flawed as the latter doesn't necessarily lead to the former, the housing sector was an especially problematic part of the USSR and china (again, less so than in any capitalist country as people weren't homeless - my issue is with this impression that moving around becomes easy once you socialize the sector and that's just not true)
i think in the DPRK's case it worked because they were the industrialized part of korea, even after all the destruction from the war they were still way ahead of the occupied part of the peninsula
so i suppose the construction sector was pretty good already
incredibly based