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

  • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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    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.