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Thread for news and discussions of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, its material conditions, the status and health of its socialist tradition, disproving common myths about it, etc.

Archive of the previous DPRK thread:
https://leftypol.org/leftypol_archive/res/12395.html
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>>2287850
>Unfortunately border is still closed but i've been thinking of taking a trip to DPRK when it's open again
you can travel from China.

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>>2287869
>being the only non-Muslim state that never recognized "Israel" in its entire history
>producing weapons used by the Palestinian resistance

Well-connected students use propaganda troupes to dodge N. Korean farm labor

https://www.dailynk.com/english/well-connected-students-use-propaganda-troupes-to-dodge-n-korean-farm-labor/

>With rice transplanting season underway at farms across North Korea, party committees at Pyongyang universities have been enrolling well-connected students in mobile artistic propaganda troupes to spare them from mandatory farm labor.


>“The propaganda troupe at Jang Chol Gu University of Commerce suddenly gained new members in late April on orders from party committee officials. Students view troupe membership as a privilege since members are exempt from farm work,” a source in Pyongyang told Daily NK recently.


>North Korean universities operate propaganda troupes that travel to farms, construction sites and major events throughout the year to boost worker morale through artistic performances, including songs and comedy skits.


>These propaganda troupes exist even at elite party-run universities such as Kim Il Sung University, Kim Chaek University of Technology and Pyongyang Medical University. Kim Il Sung University is considered one of the country’s top institutions, and its propaganda troupe is renowned for exceptionally talented performers.


>These troupes serve a symbolic role as the public face of their universities. To be selected, students are expected to demonstrate skill in areas such as singing, musical instruments, or public speaking.


>However, talent alone isn’t enough to secure a spot. Universities expand troupe membership when spring farm mobilization begins, and recommendation from the university party committee carries significant weight in securing placement.

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Watched this last night. It's set during the Korean war, where a motley crew of injured soldiers and volunteers have to band together in order to oppose a yankee paratrooper drop behind the line of contact.

A "complete" list of other dprk movies here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4D1A9E71A707338B

❤️❤️❤️🥰🥰🥰



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To the idealists on this site, violence does work. Despite how hard it is to believe this, African Americans have become the least likely people to experience police violence within the United States. Why? The reasons are complicated, but it boils down to face saving on the part of the us police force.
For those not aware of this, the US police force has faced legitimized defunding, riots, and has been blamed directly for insinuating dozens of race riots for the past century that have left upwards of hundreds of people dead. Regardless of your stance on American race politics and police violence, the US police force is ultimately blamed for most of this violence specifically because it’s the direct cause for most of this oddly specific form of it. The US federal government overtime grew increasingly intolerant of the US police force’s actions specifically because that behaviour of that institution does legitimately put the national security of the country as a whole st risk, and the US federal government cannot risk any more instances of mass violence breaking out in a time where the USA is weaker politically than ever. The fact that a single cop fucking up badly with showing restraint towards black Americans is enough to send the entire country in a frenzy is enough of a scare to the US federal government to mandate cops to just “fuck off and leave them be.”
Since the George Floyd riots, the US police force has seen funding cuts, some divisions entirely defunded, and many more reorganized specifically to avoid insinuating any more violence that could jeapordize the safety of the country.

Does this mean that the US police force has completely professionalized and stopped engaging in police brutality? No. Does this mean that us cops have suddenly become less racist? Sort of, but no. Does this mean that African Americans stopped being victims of police violence? To an extent, but a better answer is simply much less than before. And there’s a lesson to all of this.

Beating and terrorizing the ever loving shit out of people for messing with your life works.
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>>2290381

Individual Acts
1933

Many divergent positions have been taken up on the burning of the Reichstag by Van Der Lubbe. In the organs of the communist left (Spartacus, Radencommunist) it was approved as the act of a revolutionary communist. To approve and applaud such an act means calling for it to be repeated. That's why it's important to understand what use it had.

Its only meaning could be to hit, to weaken, the ruling class, the bourgeoisie. There can be no question of this here. The bourgeoisie hasn't been at all hurt by the burning of the Reichstag. Its rule hasn't in any way been weakened. On the contrary, the government has seized the opportunity to strengthen considerably its terror against the workers movement. The ultimate consequences of this have yet to be appreciated.

But even if such an act really did hit or weaken the bourgeoisie, the only consequence of this would be to encourage the workers to believe that such individual acts could liberate them. The great truth that they have to learn, that only the mass action of the entire working class can defeat the bourgeoisie, this basic truth of revolutionary communism, would be obscured from them. It would lead them away from autonomous class action. Instead of concentrating all their forces on propaganda within the working masses revolutionary minorities would exhaust their energies in individual acts which, even when carried out by a large and dedicated group, would in no way shake the domination of the ruling class. With its considerable auxiliary forces, the bourgeoisie could easily master such a group. There has rarely been a minority group which carried out such actions with the devotion, sacrifice and energy of the Russian nihilists half-a-century ago. At certain moments it even seemed that, through a series of well-organized individual assassinations, they would succeed in overthrowing Tsarism. But a French policeman, called in to take over the anti-terrorist struggle in place of the incompetent Russian police, succeeded with his Western energy and organization to annihilate nihilism in a few years. It was only afterwards, with the development of the mass movement, that Tsarism was overthrown.

But doesn't such an act have a value as a demonstration against the abject electoralism which serves to derail the workers' struggles? A demonstraPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2290698
I’m pretty sure a race riot wouldn’t register as an “individual act” you twat

>>2290684
Lone wolf and small cell terrorism can frighten the bourgeoisie into temporarily giving the working class some concessions. The same thing happened in Italy because of the Red Brigades. Temporary concessions are not socialist revolutions. People have been trying propaganda of the deed for almost 150 years and it never works.

>>2290731
>People have been trying propaganda of the deed for almost 150 years and it never works.
>Lone wolf and small cell terrorism can frighten the bourgeoisie into temporarily giving the working class some concessions
By your logic it works, just not “fully and permanently changing society on a societal level” works.

>>2290934
If your goal is succdem reforms it can work partially and temporarily. If your goal is helping the bourgeoisie justify suppressing proletarians before they're mature enough to handle that it can also work. If your goal is being a one man spark that lights the revolution, which is how potd is usually understood and promoted by people who fall for it, then you are an idealist and it cannot work. If your goal is to satisfy some moral impulse then you are an idealist.



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The most important discussion to face /leftybritpol/ yet continues.

So far we have uncovered that, yes, Hitler was in fact a racist.

> “The racist is immunized against all dangers: One may call him a scoundrel, parasite, swindler, profiteer, it all runs off him like water off a raincoat. But call him a racist and you will be astonished at how he recoils, how injured he is, how he suddenly shrinks back: "I’ve been found out".”
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>>2290168
>they still do it up here in the norf
KEEP THE CULTURE ALIVE!

>>2290693
Wait this is the one I remember from the meme where the guy bangs the garage door.

>>2290643
>AI Slop
Why are right wingers so obsessed with shitty products like this? I legit dont get it, AI is now the aesthetic of the right, why?

Is there anything more deranged than the Unherd comment sections? Just people declaring how the whites are about to rise up against Britain's islamic regime.

>>2291127
They won't do shit, just like leftists won't do shit no matter how bad housing gets and likewise no matter how bad demographic change gets.
If they were going to do shit they would have done it years ago when there was less migrants. They didn't.



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Add Wargoal Edition

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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine
https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
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>>2291007
>In Russia’s Bryansk region, terrorists have blown up a railway bridge just as a train was crossing. The train was en route from Moscow when the explosion occurred

>>2290985
Wow I wonder how he knew


>>2291087
one day

>>2291068
Tbh mate, I doubt any source exists out there to confirm or deny that the Soviet economy was good during the 1970s in the lead up to Perestroika, because the situation was ultimately down to oil suddenly not being a stable and therefore endlessly dependable commodity for trade as it had been prior, a revelation that affected the entire globe with the invariable kneejerk reaction was that collectivisation or nationalisation (depending on what side of the wall you were on) was something that needed to be funded, it was funded by oil, now oil isn’t totally dependable, all of the welfare and subsidies are unfunded and have to go.

Anyone looking for an argument about how Perestroika was made necessary by the Soviet economy in the 1970s are just looking for ideological differences to what happened in socdem nations in the 1970s, but there aren’t any, it was a global trade crisis that reactionaries made convincing but false arguments for scrapping the concept of society and retvrning to every-man-for-himself with the “entrepreneurs” making off like bandits buying up the subsidised shit to “privatise” and set a “market price” that was far more unrealistic than the subsidised costs they claimed were and causing the problem.



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>>2289232
yeah but those monopolies are private. the "process of mergers and acquisitions" in china is called nationalization

Article on China's post-93 health insurance reforms. Just the intro included here since it's too long to c/p.

https://www.eastisread.com/p/china-never-had-free-healthcare-before?
In-Depth Interview | The Onset and Breakthroughs of China's Healthcare Reform

>From 1996 to 1998, I served as Director-General of the Department of Income Distribution and Social Security under the National Commission for Restructuring the Economic System, while concurrently heading the Office of the State Council Leading Group for the Reform of the Employees’ Medical Insurance System. During this period, I witnessed firsthand the initial stages of China's medical insurance system reform.


>From 1998 to 2002, I continued my involvement in healthcare reform as the head of the State Council’s Inter-Ministerial Coordination Group for the Healthcare System Reform.


>During this period, I participated in drafting several landmark healthcare reform plans:


<The 1998 Employees’ Medical Insurance Reform Plan


<The 2000 Urban “Medical Services, Medical Insurance, and Pharmaceuticals” [the healthcare institution management system, the employees' medical insurance system, and the pharmaceutical production and distribution system] Reform Plan


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>>2289770
That's the flag of Varna - Bulgaria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Varna_flag.png
that man is Rumen Radev - president of Bulgaria and the account you posted is fake.
Checkmate ultras.

<TRAITOROUS EX OBAMA GEOSTRATEGIC PLANNER AND IR PROFESSOR WONK IS PARROTING XI'S TALKING POINTS
>>>/edu/24434



 

I’m doing it for real bros
Im organizing now, I’m fighting against fascism. For far to long I have been either doing minor stuff or wasting time but I’m done.
I’m dedicating my life to the revolution, I’ve read enough theory and now I’ll be applying the stuff I have learned with the local working class in my area. It’s time guys the conditions for our liberation are here
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>>2290528
Camatte was a retard who came to the conclusion that "civilization is the real problem" after the failed French riots of 68 and a party split, he literally became a misanthrope over a party split and some dumb fucking students protests, not by some concise analysis.

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>>2290649
Can relate.

>>2289899
Hell yeah bro
Id post an encouraging meme if i had one, instead ill just wish you well comrade

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>>2289899

Individual Acts
1933

Many divergent positions have been taken up on the burning of the Reichstag by Van Der Lubbe. In the organs of the communist left (Spartacus, Radencommunist) it was approved as the act of a revolutionary communist. To approve and applaud such an act means calling for it to be repeated. That's why it's important to understand what use it had.

Its only meaning could be to hit, to weaken, the ruling class, the bourgeoisie. There can be no question of this here. The bourgeoisie hasn't been at all hurt by the burning of the Reichstag. Its rule hasn't in any way been weakened. On the contrary, the government has seized the opportunity to strengthen considerably its terror against the workers movement. The ultimate consequences of this have yet to be appreciated.

But even if such an act really did hit or weaken the bourgeoisie, the only consequence of this would be to encourage the workers to believe that such individual acts could liberate them. The great truth that they have to learn, that only the mass action of the entire working class can defeat the bourgeoisie, this basic truth of revolutionary communism, would be obscured from them. It would lead them away from autonomous class action. Instead of concentrating all their forces on propaganda within the working masses revolutionary minorities would exhaust their energies in individual acts which, even when carried out by a large and dedicated group, would in no way shake the domination of the ruling class. With its considerable auxiliary forces, the bourgeoisie could easily master such a group. There has rarely been a minority group which carried out such actions with the devotion, sacrifice and energy of the Russian nihilists half-a-century ago. At certain moments it even seemed that, through a series of well-organized individual assassinations, they would succeed in overthrowing Tsarism. But a French policeman, called in to take over the anti-terrorist struggle in place of the incompetent Russian police, succeeded with his Western energy and organization to annihilate nihilism in a few years. It was only afterwards, with the development of the mass movement, that Tsarism was overthrown.

But doesn't such an act have a value as a demonstration against the abject electoralism which serves to derail the workers' struggles? A demonstraPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2289906
>>2289921
redditor crawls out of his cave, tragic!



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sorry, no goyim moneyshots allowed in my milking machine

🇵🇸 PREVIOUSLY ON THE HOLY LAND 🇵🇸

>>2279335

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🚨 Live Happenings/Updates 🚨
Sites that have active live-blogs:
• Al-Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/

• Middle East Eye: https://www.middleeasteye.net/israel-palestine-hamas-war-gaza-live-invasion

• The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories

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>>2290367
>no goyim moneyshots allowed in my milking machine

No. FUCK. I was about to post like 50 of them

right wing sperm squads

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RIP

Scuffles break out as Israelis march through occupied East Jerusalem

>Videos show right-wing Israelis attacking Palestinians, chanting anti-Muslim slogans and storming the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem on Israel’s “Jerusalem Day,” marking the occupation of the city in 1967.

https://news.antiwar.com/2025/05/30/trump-says-new-iran-deal-must-allow-us-to-blow-up-whatever-we-want/

Trump Says New Iran Deal Must Allow US To ‘Blow Up Whatever We Want’

>President Donald Trump argued that any revived nuclear accord with Iran should permit the United States to destroy the country’s nuclear infrastructure and send inspectors to Iranian facilities at any time.


>The president outlined his vision for a new agreement during a White House presser on Wednesday, calling for a “very strong document” that would effectively give Washington carte blanche over Tehran’s nuclear energy program.


>“I want it very strong – where we can go in with inspectors, we can take whatever we want, we can blow up whatever we want, but [with] nobody getting killed,” he told reporters. “We can blow up a lab, but nobody is gonna be in the lab, as opposed to everybody being in the lab and blowing it up.”


>He did not elaborate on those remarks, however, leaving it unclear whether Washington had actually pushed for such major concessions at the negotiating table. The Islamic Republic would be unlikely to accept a deal under those terms.


>Ali Shamkhani, a senior adviser to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, later denounced Trump’s comments in a social media post, suggesting his proposal would cross Tehran’s “red lines.”


>“Efforts to reach Iran’s nuclear plants and ‘blow up their facilities’ have been a dream of previous US presidents,” he wrote. “Iran is an independent state with a strong defense structure, a resilient people, and clear red lines. Negotiations are a means to progress and preserve national interests and honor, not submission and surrender.”

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Have any of you pretentious uyghurs even read this shit? You can not tell me with a straight face that this man is a Marxist. It‘s just nationalism, collaborationism and cultural idealism.

>>2291018
>You can not tell me with a straight face that this man is a Marxist. It‘s just nationalism, collaborationism and cultural idealism.
And?

read it again

None of those things are contradictory with Marxism

>>2291018
bro he's not trying to write capital, he's a head of state commenting on china's development in the current era

It's not a polemic



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If you 'denounce' the historical real socialism that existed and exists, you can't be a communist.
>but those were not real communism
Real communism is the movement which abolishes the current state of things (private property the alienation of species-being) and it is the expansion of worker association to international terms. To think 'communism' can be reduced to just a single historical act is silly. It is, after all, a process. Real socialism was one such historical act in a chain of many to come.
>okay, they are communist, but they are totalitarian! They are authoritarian!
Those are empty words liberal ideolouges use to justify equating the Soviet anti-colonial socialist project and the Nazifascistic colonial Lebensraum project, to keep the status quo of liberal representative democracy as the 'only democratic nonauthoritarian' society.
>what do you mean the soviet project is an anti-colonial project?
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/may/18.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/may/07b.htm
>I… I didn't know. I'm sorry. I will now study the history of the Soviet Union and build an antiimperialist socialist project on the Marxist-Leninist tradition. I will support the anti-colonial Palestinian people's struggle. I will globalize the intifada.
And you will defend the People's Republics of China, Vietnam, Laos, Cuba, Belarus and the DPRK. You will study Cuban agroecology and you will learn to live with nature. You will have Chinese high speed rails and high quality Belarusian agricultural machinery. You will be happy.

Any questions?
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>>2284340
>If you 'denounce' the historical real socialism that existed and exists, you can't be a communist.
I do not denounce the socialist states of the past, but the very same socialist states denounced thier own progress and reverted back to capitalism leading to the erasure of all socialist powers to this day. If you cannot acknowledge this fact you cannot be a communist today and infact only continue to propagate the revisionist lies that led to the retreat of socialism.

>>2290705
>principles

>>2290705
>Their big heroes Statin and Mao actively worked against and sabotaged other nation's communist movements out of chauvinism and nationalism
how about you actually read what Lenin and Stalin had to say about the national question and chauvinism? https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.htm
>and their messiah Lenin instituted a monumental terror surmounted only by his successor
revolutionary terror is good actually

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> As far as law is concerned, we with many others have stressed the opposition of communism to law, both political and private, as also in its most general form as the rights of man.

>>2288103
>Marxism isn't just opposing the West and supporting national liberation. It's about the class war of the international proletariat against the ruling class. Please remember that.

Trvke



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For one big example, Look at all that had to happen for the Bolsheviks to succeeded
>WW1
>Nicholas making the decision to go to the front line to lead the troops
>The February Revolution
>Kerensky re-entering Russia into WW1
>Kerensky's government collapsing because he tried to orchestrate a coup on himself and then double crossed the Army by arming red militias in petrograd
>The liberals giving the Bolsheviks(among other parties) guns to help stop the Army from overthrowing the provisional government.
>The other socialist parties(which were more popular) believing Lenin would reinstall the constituent assembly
>When the SRs did rise up they refused to execute captured bolshevik officers or do much of anything.
>When the Petrograd sailors rebelled they sat on their island printing newspapers hoping that the people of Russia would realize Lenin was a big meaniehead and get rid of him.

Obviously the future is not a wide-open blank slate where anything can happen. Even massive upheavals like the First World War had observable conditions. But the way it unfolded(with Belgium being invaded and Britain, followed by America, entering the conflict) was due to random chances and the decisions of a handful of individuals.
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>>2290636
>random chances and the decisions of a handful of individuals
all those were direct consequences of material reality and decisions made to respond to this reality that most people wouldve made. Bolcheviks were also very competent and dedicated and did all the right crucial choices. None of this was "random", some of it was unpredictable and yet they still reacted well and managed to seize complete victory from an incredible clusterfuck.
In fact, if you look at many communist victories, they often faced incredible odds and yet skill, dedication and the ability to act with pragmatism and focusing on material reality rather than on spooks gave them the win. The long march, the russian civil war, the cuban revolution, thats not simple luck, clawing out the win in those conditions demand above all dedicated and competent cadres.

>>2290752
There is a factor of luck as well as the skills and talents of individuals. If Lenin had not been a pragmatic man, the Bolsheviks would have lost. You also overlook the fact that the vast majority of Communist revolutions in Europe failed because they were too ideological, unpragmatic and lacked any kind of military plan.

>>2290689
there is a difference between opportunism and pragmatism. lenin wrote a lot about it

>>2290660
And you want bourgeois peace (even more brutal wars, in spite of not being labeled "regimes"), DOTP or bust uygha

America didn't enter ww1 by "random chance." Britain and France were on the hook for millions of dollars worth of loans that would have gone unpaid if they'd lost, for one.



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