Got it from here: https://twitter.com/Juche_Gang/status/1359480539166740484
This post made me curious, so I went and checked out a middle school history textbook from my country and Jesus fucking Christ it's all propaganda LOL. An entire chapter dedicated to fellating the US. Complete erasure of USSR's contributions to WW2. They're calling the October Revolution a fucking coup d'etat :agony-consuming:
(looking at a school) Wait, it's all propaganda?
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Always has been.
Lol and the US constitutional convention never gets called a coup, even though that is really effectively what it was. Madison and a few others wrote the whole thing without permission, got a couple big states to agree before the other delegates showed up (or weren't showing up, like Rhode Island did not want any changes to the articles of confederation so they didn't send any delegates) and was like "accept it or else" when they did.
Huh I'm almost 30, took all the AP history courses in my American schooling, and just learned that for the first time today. Neat, thanks america
Yeah at best you can call it an "extra-legal" change of government.
In my country I learned in school I was told about WWII as the story of a small occupied nation heroically resisting Nazi occupation. I learned that the resistance movement, the British and the US were the good guys. Not a word about the USSR, not a word about the Pacific theatre, not a word about how local collaborators massively outnumbered the resistance, not a word about Nazi persecution of leftists, LGBT people, Roma people or anyone else than Jews (and very little about them).
Lol pretty much same here. It was ""the Allies"" that freed the camps and ended the War, and ackshually our country was with the good guys the whole time. Not a word about how were hanging Jews and Roma from meathooks, not a peep about how we were one of the biggest contributors to the Holocaust and one of the closest allies of Nazi Germany, we were just uhhhhhhhhhhh temporarily confused and we wanted to fight the evil Bolsheviks! Promise!
They actually found the exciting parts of history.
Personally, I'd like to see the North Korean position on the Iranian revolution, considering their opposition to religion.
Yeah. The only center of worship in the DPRK is only available to foreigners.
It teaches almost exactly nothing of what I was taught in school.
I would take this course in a second. DPRK middle school, here I come!
This is super cool and surprisingly (to me) comprehensive. Does anyone know what kind of timeframe this is taught over? When I was in middle school I was taking my 4th American History course which was just the briefest possible overview of 1600 to 1948 only getting into the details of "why both sides were wrong" in the american civil war.
uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire
Jesus, so absolutely fucking based. Was just posting about how at high school level in this area History has now become optional in favor of social media etiquette or something.
There is the potential for glorious bits here, or at least an amazing zoom lecture series.
I would straight up study this curriculum.
It's actually very cool that the US civil is taught in continuity with the formation of the US. Like, here we almost view the founding of the US and the civil war as two unconnected events, but in reality they are absolutely linked. Civil war was the natural result of founding a hyper-capitalist bourgeoise democracy that was absolutely dependent on slavery.
That's amazing, shame I can't read Korean, but the English textbook is interesting
Already did another post on main, didn't ask for translators though
Post it like 3 times, we need more Juche shit on main. Especially with the liberal pandemic we currently seem to have.
Why is Zhou dynasty not referred to as a "slave state", but its contemporaries in Egypt and India are?
seems like weird colorism, but maybe it's just a strange translation?
Egypt wasn't really a Slave state either in the Greek/Roman sense, though it's a common misconception. It had the lowest rate of slavery of any major bronze age power. Slaves were mostly restricted to War Captives and high-ranking Palace Servants until Ptolemaic times.
The Zhou by contrast practiced open serfdom, which Egypt only had briefly during the collapse of the Old Kingdom.
I didn't know that about egyptian antiquity, was it waged labor that created the pyramids then? Or some other system?
It's interesting examining the crosscultural biases of education systems.
Yes, it is pretty much widely accepted that the pyramids were built by renowned, highly-skilled masons who were paid well and supplied with housing, food, and beer during construction.
Wow, yeah that makes sense.i had no idea though. do you know where i can get more information about the topic of ancient egypt?
was it waged labor that created the pyramids then?
Yup, working on the Pyramids was considered prestigious work. The people who worked on them actually had something of a proto-labor union. One of the first labor strikes in recorded history was Pyramid builders setting down their tools because their pay hadn't been increased to match a sudden inflation in food prices.
It was a combination of highly skilled craftsmen from all levels of society, "Cadets" from the upper middle classes undergoing national service, and (well paid) taxation labour from peasants granted the privilege of working on the pyramids rather than the standard road and irrigation work.
Some also think that foreign war captives were used on the early stages, but that's far from certain as there's no on-site evidence of artifacts from Punt or elsewhere.
This is a good overview, though I quibble with bits, mostly an over-reliance on Middle Kingdom social relations to explain Old Kingdom finds.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303875906_Labor_and_the_Pyramids_The_Heit_el-Ghurab_Workers_Town_at_Giza
Surprised all of that fits in less than 110 pages to be honest.
they left out the actual korean war interestingly enough. maybe they study that separately? I can't imagine they'd try to cover it up since it's so foundational to their country's existence
This is probably a world history course, for example in my schooling those were different subjects.
Any 100 level college world history professor could just copy this middle school syllabus from the DPRK for like both semesters
