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Is North Korea a communistic State?

Is North Korea communistic?


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Wake

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On another thread about children suffering and dying in North Korea, I was told North Korea isn't communistic.

I then searched "North Korea" and "communism" on Google and found thousands upon thousands of hits.

I am pretty it is based on my history books.

Is North Korea communistic or not?
 
depends on your definition of communist.

There are also some who argue that the current North Korean regime is also somewhat fascist in nature.

Reality isn't black and white, and it sure as hell shouldn't be based on a google search. I searched "boobs are gross" and got 26 million results...doesn't make it true.
 
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There are also some who argue that the current North Korean regime is also somewhat fascist in nature.

Well, it's definitely got the leader worship part right but their economics are all wrong.
 
Just because you googles it and you got hits means it's actually communist?

"America" "communist"

About 64,300,000 results (0.10 seconds)*

In actuality there has never been a true communist state on this earth, but you'd know that if you did research, if you actually understood was communism was, instead of seeing through your one size fits all, cold war era, red scare mentality.

Oh and by the wake.

"wake" "communist"

About 12,800,000 results (0.18 seconds)*

;)
 
Officially, NK is a Socialist Republic. It fits closer as a Totalitarian Dictatorship. It's not communist.
 
As a proponent of asking deep questions and knowing that there are no absolutes, I find it strange that Wake would ask such a question before examining the issue himself (and by examining i mean not just seeing how many google hits you get).
 
In actuality there has never been a true communist state on this earth, but you'd know that if you did research, if you actually understood was communism was, instead of seeing through your one size fits all, cold war era, red scare mentality.

To be fair, North Korea started out as a Marxist revolution. They're just the first people on Earth to successfully screw up a Communist revolution. It's like trying to fix yourself a bowl of breakfast cereal and somehow starting your kitchen on fire.
 
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NK is a communistic fascist regime. If Kim Jong Il gives the throne to his son, it will be history's first communistic fascist dynastic regime.
 
I don’t know what that place is.

To me, it is an example of what one can possible expect when attempting to usher in an age of communism, so in that vein, communists have to accept it as a plausible mutation.
 
Is North Korea communistic or not?

Yes, Wake, nK is commie. So is Mao, Pot, Stalin and Hitler. Don't be a commie.
 
Yes, it is communist. If you want to make a more specific term for what they are, sure.
The term communism has become much more broad since the late 1950s, not just Carl Marx's/etc. specific plan.
 
North Korea has a command economy, but it shares nothing else with communism. The USSR could at least pretend to be the transition to a stateless society, but North Korea is basically a monarchy run by a kingpriest.
 
North Korea is nothing at all like communism as Marx described it, or really any of the socialist thinkers. It has a lot in common with Soviet style socialism, but the important bit there isn't the socialism, it's the brutal police state.
 
Yes, Wake, nK is commie. So is Mao, Pot, Stalin and Hitler. Don't be a commie.

Yeah, Hitler was a communist. That's why when the Reichstag building was burned down, he blamed it on them, and then used that as an excuse to ban them as a political party.
 
But no objection to Mao, Pot or Stalin. Hmm...
 
But no objection to Mao, Pot or Stalin. Hmm...

I'm not talking about the things they did. You're just using the term wrong. Mao, Pol Pot, and Stalin at least described themselves as communists, even if they had pretty much nothing in common with Marx.
 
North Korea essentially has a single successful company. The owners are doing very well. Kind of like Ford was when it had its own police force etc. Definitely not communistic, much worse than that.
 
Well, it's definitely got the leader worship part right but their economics are all wrong.

Oh give me a break, Karl Marx was the biggest shill for bull**** that ever lived. None of his theory would ever work. Not ever!
 
Redress said:
Officially, NK is a Socialist Republic. It fits closer as a Totalitarian Dictatorship. It's not communist.

Totalitarianism is a myth, a fantasy used for propaganda purposes.

Viktyr said:
To be fair, North Korea started out as a Marxist revolution.

No it didn't...

celticwar17 said:
The term communism has become much more broad since the late 1950s, not just Carl Marx's/etc. specific plan.

Sure, it's come to mean whatever people want it to mean. After all Obama's even a communist, right?

ecofarm said:
But no objection to Mao, Pot or Stalin. Hmm...

Mao was a peasant guerrilla and a bureaucrat. Pol Pot was a primitivist and a bureaucrat. Stalin was an opportunist and a bureaucrat.

North Korea essentially has a single successful company. The owners are doing very well. Kind of like Ford was when it had its own police force etc. Definitely not communistic, much worse than that.

State capitalism theory is a joke.

American said:
Oh give me a break, Karl Marx was the biggest shill for bull**** that ever lived. None of his theory would ever work. Not ever!

Do you ever post anything of substance or just stick to trollish one liners?
 
Good question! And good poll topic too. You know..... it is but it sure doesnt seem like it is. They crap on their citizens much more than other communistic countries so it seems.
 
It is ruled by the WKP which is a communist party with their own flavor. I voted yes, however some of their actions aren't in line with pure communism.
 
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