https://hexbear.net/post/244410 from this post which had good faith questions about some possible racism/homophobia in instances of reporting from the DPRK, all well and good. Then a few people in the comments thought to let their liberal demons out and accuse the DPRK of somehow being a monarchy. Pure ideology. No real Analysis.
The DPRK is a Dictatorship of the Proletariat, a democracy. Stop being a liberal idiot and read some actual theory before defaulting to your corporate media propaganda.
I thought this site was better, but perhaps this is an isolated incident.
Edit: now the same people seem to be saying that the DPRK is Anti-Communist
Isolated.
I'm not gonna say that it doesn't have its problems, and that I think the expression of the Kims holding the same role for so long due to cultural reasons is a bad look. But it's absolutely true that it is not a monarchy.
I thought the recent Deprogram episode on cults of personality was pretty good. Basically, personality cults aren't great, but having one around revolutionary leaders helps maintain confidence in the government for people having their first experience of democracy. Hopefully they can avoid the worst downsides by phasing it out over time.
I agree, that episode touched on some really good points. They also said that there comes a point where the myth of the person becomes more powerful than the person themselves, so it is hard to break down those :brainworms: where the organization of the party/country starts believing that there's nothing they can't do without X person in power, or without a legendary figure at the helm, for that matter. See: Stalin trying to step down and the whole politburo just overriding his will.
I agree.