The liberal view of world affairs is beset with an incurable contradiction: that liberalism claims to represent the freest possible social order, yet in practice it consistently leads to scenarios that are objectively unfree. This has been true since liberalism’s inception during the transition from feudalism to capitalism, in which the bourgeoisie set up a form of “democracy” that had to be compromised in order for capital to function. Under capitalism, democracy has always only truly existed for the elites, while everyone else is excluded from participating to varying degrees. When capital has found itself in crisis, the illusion of democracy has been abandoned, and undisguised bourgeois dictatorship has taken its place. This has happened most infamously in Indonesia, Chile, Brazil, and the other places where the CIA installed military dictatorships throughout the 21st century.
  • whoami
    9·
    2 years ago

    I’d be interested in more knowledgeable people about the DPRK could discuss this:

    In the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Leninist state that’s furthest developed towards communism, the end goal of a progressively withering state has been getting realized for decades. Because Korean socialism is so well protected by its military-first and self-reliance policies, it’s been able to afford to incrementally decentralize its state authority. It’s done this first by abolishing the presidential-level office that Kim Il Sung held, then expanding the opportunities to participate in governance among increasingly broad parts of the population. Should international politics continue to grow more favorable for the globe’s revolutionary forces, this transition to statelessness within Korea will continue, and the other socialist republics will start to catch up to Korea.

    • cfgaussianOP
      7·
      2 years ago

      I would be interested in that as well. We definitely need some comrades from the WPK to link up with and learn from here in the west, there is so much we don’t know about the DPRK. I have learned a little about how enterprises are organized and run by workers there and know a little of the basics of their political system but i don’t yet have a clear picture of how it all fits together on the larger scale, how the individual pieces of the system interact with each other.

      But from what i have learned so far it does indeed seem like they are the most advanced along the socialist path of all AES states. I’ve said it before, there is a reason why the OG Black Panthers read Kim Il Sung and were so inspired by Juche.

      • TheQuokka@lemmy.ml
        3·
        2 years ago

        This would be really interesting.

        I think the fact that 1/4 of the entire population of the DPRK is a member of the WPK is very telling of their efforts to put control directly into the hands of the working class. It is the biggest portion of the population in the ruling party of any communist country that I’m aware of. Combine that with the continuous decrease in centralised power of their most powerful political figures, and you’ve got one hell of an example of the gradual process of withering away of the state. Even in times where the dictatorship of capital is still the status quo.