What do you mean by that? I live in the US, what could I possibly do to support the DPRK? And what does that have to do with the legitimacy of what I said, and the fact that there’s no credible evidence of Kippumjo?
It is just that there are lots of tankies on lemmy.ml and they worship Russia, China and the DPRK to an unimaginable degree where if you critize any of their actions they start ragequitting I asked mainly out of curiuosity. Sorry for bothering.
That isn’t the case, though. Communists don’t worship the Russian Federation, PRC, or the DPRK, and often do criticize them. The difference, is that communist critique is usually better informed both from a theoretical perspective, as we understand communist theory and history better, and from a practical perspective due to this study.
My comment was quite literally defending the DPRK against allegations of maintaining a pedophile sex ring for state officials, on the basis of said allegations being baseless and extraordinary evidence of the propaganda industry against the DPRK. This is often framed as dogmatic, uncritical support, or “worship” as you call it, but as we can both see I spent a good deal of time researching the topic of propaganda on the DPRK, its place in the world, and what it’s actually like. Thus, by many standards, this makes me a “tankie,” though I disagree with the notion that my analysis is dogmatic, unjustified, or otherwise akin to “worship.”
As a communist in the US, I can say I want to lift sanctions, and for the US Empire to leave Korea alone. I can say that the DPRK is extremely misunderstood in the west, and explain how and why. I can even organize in real life to help facilitate both. That’s the practical limit of what “support” I could ever hope to do, even if I did worship the DPRK. I simply have an extremely limited amount of influence on a country all the way on the opposite side of the world.
Since you are from .ml I just have to ask do you support North Korea?
What do you mean by that? I live in the US, what could I possibly do to support the DPRK? And what does that have to do with the legitimacy of what I said, and the fact that there’s no credible evidence of Kippumjo?
It is just that there are lots of tankies on lemmy.ml and they worship Russia, China and the DPRK to an unimaginable degree where if you critize any of their actions they start ragequitting I asked mainly out of curiuosity. Sorry for bothering.
That isn’t the case, though. Communists don’t worship the Russian Federation, PRC, or the DPRK, and often do criticize them. The difference, is that communist critique is usually better informed both from a theoretical perspective, as we understand communist theory and history better, and from a practical perspective due to this study.
My comment was quite literally defending the DPRK against allegations of maintaining a pedophile sex ring for state officials, on the basis of said allegations being baseless and extraordinary evidence of the propaganda industry against the DPRK. This is often framed as dogmatic, uncritical support, or “worship” as you call it, but as we can both see I spent a good deal of time researching the topic of propaganda on the DPRK, its place in the world, and what it’s actually like. Thus, by many standards, this makes me a “tankie,” though I disagree with the notion that my analysis is dogmatic, unjustified, or otherwise akin to “worship.”
As a communist in the US, I can say I want to lift sanctions, and for the US Empire to leave Korea alone. I can say that the DPRK is extremely misunderstood in the west, and explain how and why. I can even organize in real life to help facilitate both. That’s the practical limit of what “support” I could ever hope to do, even if I did worship the DPRK. I simply have an extremely limited amount of influence on a country all the way on the opposite side of the world.