North Korea talk and mad lefties....
Jan 30 2007 17:57
Hey all,
Ok ok, dont slaughter me straight away but....
A friend of mine has a contact who's been to North Korea and she'd love to talk about it in London. Im guessing she'll be a socialist nutter who's been shown what the regime want to show and now believes N.Korea to be some classless utopia.
She keeps bugging me, so does anyone know any psycho authoritarian commie/socialist organisations I can put her in contact with in London who might want to hear bullshit about N.Korea?!
Ok, slaughter me now....
Cheers.
Jan 30 2007 18:50
#2
New Communist Party, has to be mate.
They do an AMAZING paper called The New Worker.
An ultra stalinist split from the CP(whatever) not explicitly maoist or or owt, just totally fucking up for it stalinists in their 80's.
One of my fave left groups. I ran up to them on a STW demo going 'Nice one, its the NCP! Gissa a paper, i love this thing! You lot are wicked!' in a blatantly silly way. They put 'youth were literally running up to buy The New Worker on the demo'in the next issue.
Jan 30 2007 20:20
#3
these guys sound like a good time
Jan 30 2007 20:29
#4
There are a ton of psycho authoritarian communist parties in this country. Looking on the sites of the communist parties in the UK (A struggle if there ever was one) it looks like the CPB (ML) are quite into North Korea, their article about them seems pretty biased towards them http://www.workers.org.uk/news/news_1106/korea.html
But the CPGB (ML) are even more mental and many members of that party are also part of this group called the stalin society. The last group i mentioned had some slight bias for north korea, this one goes and totally supports them
CPGB (ML) wrote:
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) sends its heartfelt congratulations to the peace-loving people of the DPRK for the successful nuclear test conducted by the Korean People's Army on 9 October 2006.
The link was too long, you can find it on their site though. I think the RCPB (ML) also like them too, but i cannot find any articles proving this yet. Your friend has plenty of choice when it comes to psycho commie parties.
Jan 30 2007 20:37
#5
Didn't NK officially repudiate Marxism-Leninism in the 70s? You'd think that would be a wakeup call to Marxist-Leninists.
Jan 30 2007 20:44
#6
Looks like it according to wikipedia
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the WPK claims to have its own distinct ideology (Juche) which it considers to be superior to Marxism-Leninism
Jan 30 2007 22:25
#7
Surely the Sparts would love to have the person?
Jan 31 2007 01:50
#8
yeah go for the sparts.
Jan 31 2007 09:07
#9
There's a mental website of a UK group who try to push North Korea-style "juche thought" over here, but I can't find it. 
Jan 31 2007 09:12
#10
they censored their own website, juche-style.
Jan 31 2007 09:19
#11
Their "programme" is fantastic -- UK out of the EU, withdraw from any international treaties. IIRC, the CPB (ML) used to push that line as well.
Jan 31 2007 09:22
#12
so isolation is part of juche-thought then? and there was me thinking kim jung-il was a bit of a mentalist with no friends
Jan 31 2007 09:28
#13
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Juche literally means "main body" or "subject"; it has also been translated in North Korean sources as "independent stand" and the "spirit of self-reliance".
Jan 31 2007 10:12
#14
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The core principle of the Juche ideology since the 1970s has been that "man is the master of everything and decides everything"
'man' meaning 'kim jung-il', presumably
Jan 31 2007 10:28
#15
the button wrote:
There's a mental website of a UK group who try to push North Korea-style "juche thought" over here, but I can't find it. :(
I think i've found it http://uk.geocities.com/juche007/ You're right, it is really mental, even more so than the CPGB(ML) You can even join their group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Songun/
Jan 31 2007 10:41
#16
they translate it as 'army first', a nice euphemism for military rule - but it's fun!
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The Army-First/Songun idea is now gripping the world with excitement.
Jan 31 2007 10:49
#17
Hopefully they'll spot that we're linking to their site, and come over here. 
Jan 31 2007 10:56
#18
i hope so, i'm gripped with excitement.
Jan 31 2007 10:58
#19
*clicks link repeatedly*
Jan 31 2007 16:53
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Jan 31 2007 19:09
#21
A couple of years back I ran across a Juche study web-board where their leader was analyzing the relevance of Makhno's Platform for North Korea...
Jan 31 2007 19:24
#22
Kim jung-il & the platform: united against imperialism! 
Jan 31 2007 20:15
#23
years ago i worked on an "alternative weekly" that had reciprocal arrangements with papers all over, inc. the pyongyang times. all that seemed to happen in NK was that foreign leaders came to praise the Great Leader, who spent the rest of his time approving of what industrious korean workers did. i remember one statement, "It is the party's teaching to put the right crop in the right soil."
Feb 1 2007 17:20
#24
they're attacking their food problem:
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=2837880&page=1
i can't decide if this is sensible, ridiculous, or sad.
Feb 1 2007 19:49
#25
newyawka wrote:
they're attacking their food problem:http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=2837880&page=1
i can't decide if this is sensible, ridiculous, or sad.
i think its cracking, but i'd be surprised if there was a relatively obvious food source short-cut that the west had just been ignoring for years.
This:
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that attache's convoy of Mercedes S-Class limousines
is sad.
Chronic food shortages and limousines. Gotta love Communism.
Feb 2 2007 00:39
#26
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i think its cracking, but i'd be surprised if there was a relatively obvious food source short-cut that the west had just been ignoring for years.
why?
I mean, they ignored all the others.
Feb 2 2007 21:03
#27
OliverTwister wrote:
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i think its cracking, but i'd be surprised if there was a relatively obvious food source short-cut that the west had just been ignoring for years.why?
I mean, they ignored all the others.
like what? GM?
NO WAIT
Mar 9 2007 18:05
#28
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Samsung develops machine gun sentry robot costs $200k. November 3, 2006 http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/samsung_develops_machine_gun_sentry_robot_costs_200k.php
Seems like the Koreans are the only ones:
Israel unveils portable hunter-killer robot. Thu Mar 8, 2007
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070308/ids_photos_wl/r3854243318.jpg
Don't let John Reid hear about this...
Since you use the word slaughter ... reminds me to post a link from Defy-ID list about a robot that has been designed by Samsung to sit on North/South Korea border. They seem to have got a little way beyond TVs and mobile phones. Be afraid.