I hate using language like this usually, but that line of thought of ultras is fundamentally un-marxist. The core idea of scientific socialism and marxism is that history and society don’t develop randomly, but are guided by certain laws and logics at certain stages of development. That makes capitalism predictable and study-able, because its internal logic makes certain developments a necessity.
But then why the hell does this supposed DPRK bourgeoisie in this Juche capitalism behave so fundamentally different to any other bourgeois nation? Why is it not subject to the same laws and necessities?
Because somehow this distinct phenomenon capitalism somehow for some reason behaves differently in one half of the Korean peninsula compared to the rest of the world? Or is it just simply not capitalism?
They never read Juche. If they did, they’re using a maoist source which usually uses misquoted soruces, such as stating that Juche is somehow expressing ‘limitations’ of Marxist theory.
Just wanna bounce off this and say that I recommend wholeheartedly every comrade read Kim Il-sung. I know from the outside looking in it can feel as if Juche is a distinctly Korean thing, but I believe there really is a beautiful philosophy underpinning it that can be extrapolated outward, if not necessarily universally. There is plenty of wisdom in it that can alter one’s personal mindset as well - no liberal or “apolitical” self-help book will ever affect me quite the way reading into Juche has.
Juche is less Marxism-Leninism applied to Korea than what is often referred to as “Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism”, which is functionally the “Stalinism” re: Korea, meaning simply Marxism-Leninism with Korean characteristics. Juche is its own, imo wonderful thing that underpins the revolutionary Korean social psyche that all revolutionaries could learn from.
Why would the bourgeois class of North Korea isolate themselves if Juche is meant to serve them? I don’t get how this makes sense to them.
I hate using language like this usually, but that line of thought of ultras is fundamentally un-marxist. The core idea of scientific socialism and marxism is that history and society don’t develop randomly, but are guided by certain laws and logics at certain stages of development. That makes capitalism predictable and study-able, because its internal logic makes certain developments a necessity.
But then why the hell does this supposed DPRK bourgeoisie in this Juche capitalism behave so fundamentally different to any other bourgeois nation? Why is it not subject to the same laws and necessities?
Because somehow this distinct phenomenon capitalism somehow for some reason behaves differently in one half of the Korean peninsula compared to the rest of the world? Or is it just simply not capitalism?
Bourgeois = anyone who doesn’t work in a factory I guess
They never read Juche. If they did, they’re using a maoist source which usually uses misquoted soruces, such as stating that Juche is somehow expressing ‘limitations’ of Marxist theory.
Just wanna bounce off this and say that I recommend wholeheartedly every comrade read Kim Il-sung. I know from the outside looking in it can feel as if Juche is a distinctly Korean thing, but I believe there really is a beautiful philosophy underpinning it that can be extrapolated outward, if not necessarily universally. There is plenty of wisdom in it that can alter one’s personal mindset as well - no liberal or “apolitical” self-help book will ever affect me quite the way reading into Juche has.
Juche is less Marxism-Leninism applied to Korea than what is often referred to as “Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism”, which is functionally the “Stalinism” re: Korea, meaning simply Marxism-Leninism with Korean characteristics. Juche is its own, imo wonderful thing that underpins the revolutionary Korean social psyche that all revolutionaries could learn from.