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[TerraPublica]

I wouldn't ever lump in Venezuela with Syria or North Korea. In Syria, there are no good guys. And North Korea isn't doing the left any favors. I can't in good conscience support dictatorship, even in opposition to neoliberal capitalism.

They are all bad regimes .

Not Venezuela. It's one of the most democratic countries in the world. The reports of media crackdowns and government corruption are hugely exaggerated.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/oct/03/why-us-dcemonises-venezuelas-democracy

EDIT: It's also the happiest country in South America: http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/the-americas-blog/you-probably-didnt-hear-that-venezuela-was-again-ranked-the-happiest-country-in-south-america

[TerraPublica]

No, most dislike North Korea, myself included.

What sane person doesn't dislike North Korea?

Precisely.
EDIT: There is Dennis Rodman...

[Pacifornia]

No, most dislike North Korea, myself included.

What sane person doesn't dislike North Korea?

The North Koreans who love their Dear Leader? Salvador Allende is a hero to me

[Esperantujo 2]

Altough I'm Libertarian Socialist i can't stand with some " communist " when they winning about After Stalin dead the Revesionism began , we should support regimes likes Venezuela,Syria and DPRK because they fight Imperialism or the ones who claim to be communist but they vote center-left/center or center-right if that means the right-wing one don't win.

Your last point is probably right. An example is the Egyptian Revolutionary Socialists, who supported Morsi, although they only did so on the second ballot, and if I were in Egypt, I would have been tempted to do likewise.
However, your second point is completely mystifying. What do Venezuela, Syria and North Korea have in common, other than being on the same planet? Venezuela is a social-democratic mixed economy. Syria is in the midst of a civil war between two religious sects. North Korea is a dictatorship with an ideology remotely rooted in Stalinism.

[Bloco De Esquerda]

Altough I'm Libertarian Socialist i can't stand with some " communist " when they winning about After Stalin dead the Revesionism began , we should support regimes likes Venezuela,Syria and DPRK because they fight Imperialism or the ones who claim to be communist but they vote center-left/center or center-right if that means the right-wing one don't win.

Your last point is probably right. An example is the Egyptian Revolutionary Socialists, who supported Morsi, although they only did so on the second ballot, and if I were in Egypt, I would have been tempted to do likewise.
However, your second point is completely mystifying. What do Venezuela, Syria and North Korea have in common, other than being on the same planet? Venezuela is a social-democratic mixed economy. Syria is in the midst of a civil war between two religious sects. North Korea is a dictatorship with an ideology remotely rooted in Stalinism.

They are anti-usa/imperialism that's their common ground .

[Esperantujo 2]

Your last point is probably right. An example is the Egyptian Revolutionary Socialists, who supported Morsi, although they only did so on the second ballot, and if I were in Egypt, I would have been tempted to do likewise.
However, your second point is completely mystifying. What do Venezuela, Syria and North Korea have in common, other than being on the same planet? Venezuela is a social-democratic mixed economy. Syria is in the midst of a civil war between two religious sects. North Korea is a dictatorship with an ideology remotely rooted in Stalinism.

They are anti-usa/imperialism that's their common ground .

If the USA buys its oil from the dictatorship that's arming the al-Qaeda rebels in Syria, rather than from democratic Venezuela, it's the USA's fault, not the Venezuelans. In case you misunderstand me, I don't support the Assad regime either.

[The Parkus Empire]

No, I support a global classless structure without a bourgeoisie preempting 99.9% (that's a global estimate, it's more around 90% in the U.S.) of the wealth of workers' production for their own luxury and power.

What you support will turn in to a global version of North Korea .

No, North Korea is in shit because it's isolationist. So that makes no sense. As for the repressing of speech and forced labor, that's not communist.

[The Parkus Empire]

Well China has successfuly fighted poverty in the last years... funny sidenote: since Deng Xiaoping

Was smart enough to get rid of communist economic theory.

Mao didn't just use communist economic theory, he added his own icing like forcing people into jobs they weren't trained or interested in and deciding to manage all sorts of shit he had no clue about.

[Leningrad Union]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSKrBX_F ... e=youtu.be

I like that video. I don't like Capitalism or America.

[Pacifornia]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSKrBX_FA-g&feature=youtu.be

I like that video. I don't like Capitalism or America.

Dude that's my national anthem! I loved it too haha

[Leningrad Union]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSKrBX_FA-g&feature=youtu.be

I like that video. I don't like Capitalism or America.

Dude that's my national anthem! I loved it too haha

I actually just found it off of your sig on my thread about morality in porn. I honestly want a Communist to get in charge of America and just take the world over.

[Arumdaum]

No, most dislike North Korea, myself included.

What sane person doesn't dislike North Korea?

I don't dislike North Korea...

[Pacifornia]

Dude that's my national anthem! I loved it too haha

I actually just found it off of your sig on my thread about morality in porn. I honestly want a Communist to get in charge of America and just take the world over.

Hopefully one day we can wake up and vote one in!

[Divair]

Mao or Stalin?

Choose one.

Bob from down the hall.

[Arumdaum]

No, I support a global classless structure without a bourgeoisie preempting 99.9% (that's a global estimate, it's more around 90% in the U.S.) of the wealth of workers' production for their own luxury and power.

What you support will turn in to a global version of North Korea .

You... don't know anything about North Korea or communism, do you?..

[The Parkus Empire]

What sane person doesn't dislike North Korea?

I don't dislike North Korea...

You don't dislike theocracy, starvation and totalitarianism?

[Arumdaum]

I don't dislike North Korea...

You don't dislike theocracy, starvation and totalitarianism?

There's more to North Korea than that, and you know it.

[4years]

I don't dislike North Korea...

You don't dislike theocracy, starvation and totalitarianism?

Does a personality cult really count as theocracy?

[4years]

You don't dislike theocracy, starvation and totalitarianism?

There's more to North Korea than that, and you know it.

A shit healthcare system, neo-feudal property relations, a de facto cast system, an excessively large military, juche ideology, and a dynasty of absolute rulers.

Still not seeing much to like.

[Arumdaum]

You don't dislike theocracy, starvation and totalitarianism?

Does a personality cult really count as theocracy?

There's been reports by some Christian groups of the attribution of supernatural powers to them, but these are largely unfounded.

[Arumdaum]

There's more to North Korea than that, and you know it.

A shit healthcare system, neo-feudal property relations, a de facto cast system, an excessively large military, juche ideology, and a dynasty of absolute rulers.

Still not seeing much to like.

Over 24 million individuals with their own human feelings and emotions, including a large portion of my relatives, naengmyeon, other food that I like, funny-looking traditional hats, poetry, history, nice architecture, the landscape during the winter and during the spring, the sound of cicadas during the summer, its general interestingness, and more.

Because y'know, nothing exists in a country other than the government. Yup.

[Escasia]

You don't dislike theocracy, starvation and totalitarianism?

There's more to North Korea than that, and you know it.

Yes, but it's an extremely authoritarian country and makes a mockery of socialism. The few things that North Korea does right are outweighed very heavily by the huge amount of things they do wrong.

Every day that North Korea remains this way is another slap in the face of every liberal leftist around the world. Deformed workers' states like NK have made dirty words of socialism and communism.

A shit healthcare system, neo-feudal property relations, a de facto cast system, an excessively large military, juche ideology, and a dynasty of absolute rulers.

Still not seeing much to like.

Over 24 million individuals with their own human feelings and emotions, including a large portion of my relatives, naengmyeon, other food that I like, funny-looking traditional hats, poetry, history, some nice architecture, the landscape during the winter and during the spring, the sound of cicadas during the summer, its general interestingness, and more.

Because y'know, nothing exists in a country other than the government. Yup.

Yes, and those 24 million individuals are living under the boot of a totalitarian state which claims to be socialist. Most of the positive aspects of its culture which you have mentioned come from a time before the revolution. Disliking the DPRK does not mean disliking everything about North Korean culture.

[The Parkus Empire]

You don't dislike theocracy, starvation and totalitarianism?

Does a personality cult really count as theocracy?

They're devoted to a deceased "eternal leader" to the point that it's nationalistic ancestor worship.

[The Parkus Empire]

You don't dislike theocracy, starvation and totalitarianism?

There's more to North Korea than that, and you know it.

Sure is. What's your point? If you support North Korea, then you're no friend of communists.

[The Parkus Empire]

A shit healthcare system, neo-feudal property relations, a de facto cast system, an excessively large military, juche ideology, and a dynasty of absolute rulers.

Still not seeing much to like.

Over 24 million individuals with their own human feelings and emotions, including a large portion of my relatives, naengmyeon, other food that I like, funny-looking traditional hats, poetry, history, nice architecture, the landscape during the winter and during the spring, the sound of cicadas during the summer, its general interestingness, and more.

Because y'know, nothing exists in a country other than the government. Yup.

I wasn't aware that there was a "North" Korean cultural heritage.