I am being deprogrammed…
Nodutdol just released a toolkit on Korean reunification, going over the background of the division, its history of Japanese colonialism, and demystifying the DPRK. Seems to do a good job of going over the western framing of Korea from a Korean leftist perspective.
It’s called 4.3 in here South Korea. Fascist pesident Syngman Lee, backed by the US army, committed genocide in Jeju. The army was ordered to consider anyone in the island, including children, as riots. The reason of this genocide was that Labor Party of South Korea was popular in Jeju. The fascist leading opposition People’s Power still claim that it was a communist riot.
Novel prize recipent Han Kang’s novel <We Do Not Part> well describes this event.
Nobel prize recipient
Why even bother mentioning this? Nobody cares about the opinions of some crusty old imperialist fuckheads. They are clearly deeply unserious in their prize selection process.
I also recommend Han Kang’s Human Acts, going over the Gwang-Ju Massacre by the butcher Chun Do-Hwan.
Yeah but I was told that it’s hateful to call a fascist a fascist, so…
Guess we’ll just have to live with the coming bloodshed. I can’t wait to be told to “get over it.”
The RoK put communists in concentration camps and it is ignored as often as those who died in Hitler’s camps
Title very misleading
A general strike was later organized by the Workers’ Party of South Korea (WPSK) from February to March 1948.
Yes but then
The WPSK launched an insurgency in April 1948, attacking police and Northwest Youth League members stationed on Jeju who had been mobilized to suppress the protests by force.[
Not justifying a crime like this, just setting the record straight
Yes, because the dictator Rhee Syngman was slaughtering communists and labor organizers, as well as just random civilians.
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Damn… everyone in S.Korea except the far right hates Rhee… including liberals… We actually learn at school that Rhee was a dictator.
Are you really coming to the defense of the dictator Rhee Syngman just because leftists hate him? The WPSK started fighting against the dictatorship because it was a merciless dictatorship slaughtering communists, trade unionists, etc. Rhee Syngman was a butcher, he slaughtered countless Koreans even below the parallel. One of the more famous instances was blowing up the Hangang bridge while civilians were still on it, just to save his own skin.
You’re outright defending Korean Pinochet.
I’m not defending anyone, I’m saying that it’s unsurprising that the title is a part-truth given the instance.
It’s also unsurprising that you get attacked for pointing out that the victims weren’t entirely innocent: a general strike and a revolution are not the same, regardless of the cause, because the full, accurate, truth is discouraged here even when it paints the same picture you were originally trying to.
I still see no issue with the title. The troops were sent in to suppress the strike with force. Whether or not the fascists in charge tried to spin it as the strikers getting violent isn’t really relevant.
You’re complaining about the lack of justification for Rhee Syngman’s butchery of Jeju Island in the post title. The victims were largely innocent, the fact that some villiages in Jeju took up arms against Rhee Syngman’s dictatorship was used as justification by Rhee Syngman to slaughter 10% of Jeju Island. It’s said that the bloodbath was so significant that the waters around Jeju ran red. This is on top of the fact that armed resistance was fully justified, and intensified after Rhee Syngman started slaughtering innocent villagers.
Truth isn’t discouraged here, what’s discouraged is caping for fascist dictators by trying to say the slaughter was justified. You had a knee-jerk reaction because leftists correctly pointed out an example of the ROK’s dictatorship slaughtering civilians, something it did on countless occasions in its early years and continued even decades later such as the Gwang-Ju Massacre.
You realise you’re not helping your image by attacking viewpoints I don’t even hold, right?
I responded to a comment asking why the post asking why details were omitted when the truth was on your side anyway, and you instantly take that as an attack on your beliefs, because posting the full truth or in any way acknowledging shortcomings of your comrades is actively discouraged, as you’re very kindly demonstrating for me.
For full clarity, the actions of the old RoK government were inexcusable. The actions of the protesters were excusable given the context, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t happen or that we can call them something they weren’t.
The headline also omits that Rhee Syngman was a puppet placed by the US Empire specifically to slaughter communists and labor organizers after the US Empire outlawed the PRK and divided Korea. It’s a headline, not a comprehensive overview, and you complained about it not including that there was armed resistance against fascism, using that as a springboard to complain about leftists. What purpose does this serve, if not to cape for Rhee Syngman?
“for the crime of organising a general strike”
It wasn’t for the general strike, it was following violence against the regime who tried to suppress the general strike.
Once again, the violence was completely excusable given the circumstances, but to say that the regime’s actions were even mostly due to a simple general strike is incredibly disingenuous.
I’m not looking to villify the workers, I’m saying that tankies have a long history of hiding parts of the truth that show any form of wrongdoing by leftists, even when that wrongdoing was excusable or necessary, and that doing that is worse for your image than accepting history as it happens.
Mods should indeed consider banning you from the server for spreading disinfo. They are far too lenient.
