| PRK chose communism but they've got dictatorship now - insane, totalitarian dictatorship. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_Korea... Excerpt of the aims: "... guaranteed basic human rights and freedoms, including those of speech, press, assembly, and faith; universal suffrage to adults over the age of eighteen; equality for women; labor law reforms ..." Sounds pretty good. Many in the North probably would love communism (or anything!) in preference to what they have. The communists didn't hold the North, the PRK was killed off quickly, the Kims soon took over as dictators - Wikipedia says the suggestion to have a "trusteeship" was from USA, that then put the Kims in power ... An ignorant reading of this would be "USA saves communism from spreading by installing evil dictators instead". As a child we got our share of USA propaganda - in UK - the hated commies. Except now it seems they were hated because they form a challenge to the rich capitalists. If workers demanded the profits from their labour in other countries, and the rich lost their places of power, then why wouldn't US Americans do the same? Is that why USA has been at war against communism? To protect the positions of the wealthy elite over their own countrymen? Am I wrong? |