• GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    The DPRK is socialist and not a hereditary autocracy. It has been the consistent direction of the head of the executive branch to diffuse authority to other offices, but nearly everything you have ever heard about this country was a lie.

    • gowan@reddthat.com
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      1 year ago

      It literally has handed power down from father to son twice. That is a hereditary system. As the citizens cannot advocate for a change in leaders, a change in direction of the party or an entirely new political system they are authoritarian.

      DPRK is a hereditary autocracy.

        • gowan@reddthat.com
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          1 year ago

          I didn't do that. I explained how the top authority has been handed from father to son in a single family and then demonstrated how they are authoritarian. You might be able to be authoritarian and socialist but you cannot have a hereditary power structure and attempt anything looking like socialism.

          Just because you don't like facts doesn't change them. If that was possible communism would have been achieved multiple times

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        It literally has handed power down from father to son twice.

        It has had sons win elections and then hold the office twice. We can call it dynastic in a sense similar to US political dynasties, but that's different from being literally hereditary.

        As the citizens cannot advocate for a change in leaders, a change in direction of the party or an entirely new political system

        Citation needed

          • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            Their elections have been observed many times by different external bodies and are an example of consensus democracy.

            • gowan@reddthat.com
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              1 year ago

              Do you have a source for that claim because I have only seen the opposite from elections experts. The fact that almost every single person votes is of course a MASSIVE red flag.

              • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                I believe participation is mandatory, like in Australia, and given the travel limitations (the part of a percent that doesn't vote are usually people traveling), it makes sense that it would be so high. Of course, since we have a wonderful freedom of speech in this country where the rich are free to buy media companies and promote the stories they want to promote, the idea of actually investigating the elections for a purpose other than vilification is hardly going to creep into search engine results. Here's a compilation of sources that attempt to explore it from that angle:

                https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/socialism_faq.md#is-the-dprk-a-fascist-monarchy

                Archive of a dead link: https://archive.ph/aMJCI