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Rowan Valvona explores the validity of the accusations of monarchical rule in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

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

    • keepcarrot [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      I have a friend who spent a semester in North Korea. I could ask her to write about it.

    • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      the only info you have available are all approved by the state but no one to verify it in the modern day.

      Not to mention that the info we have on other AES countries gets twisted and used against them all the same, no matter their transparency, so there is really no incentive for the DPRK to open up about their inner political workings. It is frustrating to me because I think it is important for other nascent movements to learn the material realities of political organization in others that have existed for a while, but the DPRK has been under siege for a long time, so their approach to diplomacy and their ideology largely reflects the priorities of a country focused on surviving despite outside pressure..