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+Henry Hein "You think that a politician should be revered like a god"Dearest, no, The Respected And Supreme Leader Marshall KIM JONG UN is a god! Or at least will be one  after He passed away and got mummified like His Father and Grandfather.. (Of course, that The Marshall ever will die is merely theoretically. For the time being He is immortal.)  

Nope, he didn't even take the poster down! Good on him, how dare you sickening bastards try to trample our rights to satire! What you call a "malicious assault on the dignity of [north Korea]" is what everyone else would call freedom of speech! Your viewpoint is truly sickening. You think that a politician should be revered like a god, yet you no doubt are still stupid enough to think that nk is a democracy or something. 

Not far as fine as the hair cut of the German chancelloress Angela Merkel.

+hesoyam1331 that would be the "North Korean" embassy

The DPRK embassy in London is a converted house in a suburban street. I have actually drove past it and didn't for one second think it was an actual embassy as it looks like a regular house. All other embassy are far more visually obvious.

+Gertrude Perkins Still, this guy practically claimed that the DPRK invaded his barber shop.

+Artimus Gray One can get arrested for inciting hatred against people of religious faith, but we have a proud history of challenging religion over the past 100 plus years, such as Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion and his subsequent TV documentary, the work of Professor Stephen Hawking, the late Dougas Adams, etc.As for giving away information, the KGB and the Stasi, amongst others compiled information on and spied upon Soviet citizens.  It is not libel to mock somebody's haircut.And Kim Jong Un and his entire family are assholes!

Which is why we living in the UK can be arrested for upsetting religious feelings, why we sell all Briton's information to the US, freedumb.Sure, he was in his legal right to mock the leader of the DPRK (unless you fit a libel charge in there), but he's still an asshole.

+John McFarfignoogin What about internal resistance, cultural baggage and economic dislocations? Those aren't factors?What you also didn't explain is how you are going to prevent a steady slide toward corruption and power abuse in both the civilian, collective sector and the government, managerial sector.After the "revolution" where all the hype and fanaticism has peaked into a frenzy of ideological dogmatism and leader worship, you do know that society and how it functions will eventually die down into a normal everyday routine don't you? What are the solutions then for the simple petty greed of government officials that can't be held accountable and the slide into collective free riding and blame shifting of ordinary workers?Socialism slides into unaccountable dictatorship at one end and collective laziness at the other end for a reason and minor leadership personalities guiding the whole thing are not significant. Let me repeat that so you and other people reading this understand it. The direction and tendency of a society in what it will most likely end up as is far more significantly influenced by the social institutions it has than by the leaders within those institutions. This should be anarchy 101 theory. It's basic social theory stuff.

+technatezinMost attempts at socialism have been built on the Bolshevik model in part because the west does everything within it's power to sabotage, undermine and overthrow any and all socialist nations so the authoritarian model has been embraced. Just PART of the reason socialism will have to arise in the west or in an advanced capitalist nation such as modern China but even then a global turn towards socialism will be necessary. I dont even want to get into this. I'm tiered of explaining things on youtube. It's pointless. And never ending.

+John McFarfignoogin"Juche/Songun/Stalinism isn't a video game. It's a reactionary ideology masked as "socialism" and has been one of the biggest deterrents or roadblocks to actual socialism mankind has ever seen."Duly noted. However, the reason why I mentioned the Civilization series of video games is because the government model particular in it's 4th edition is modeled after real world governing systems. Of course it's not an entirely accurate model since it's just a game and some real life features would have to be pared back to increase playability, but the point is still valid nonetheless.What you have in the situation of North Korea is a Hereditary Rule power system combined with Nationalism as a domestic system, state property as a ownership system and possibly either serfdom or slavery. The civilians are clearly not emancipated and it is clearly operating a militarized police state.Also, you have to ask yourself why it seems that all previous attempts at socialism have devolved into this. This is NOT a coincidence. Political system such as Socialism collapse and devolves into something different from it's intended goal because the institutions it advocates follows a particular logic like a software program follows an algorithm. Cosmetic and insignificant changes in leadership figures and policy direction makes no difference as to what it has to logically end up as.

+technatezinJuche/Songun/Stalinism isn't a video game. It's a reactionary ideology masked as "socialism" and has been one of the biggest deterrents or roadblocks to actual socialism mankind has ever seen. Probably even worse than capitalism itself. Then this guy gets on his youtube here and parades it around as some ideal representation of socialism. What a rebel. I'm not sure why I post here. The who's, why's, where's and what's of even the "mainstream socialist movement" are so absurd these days I'm not even sure why I bother with any of it. This is a sort of "Jerry Springer" section of the socialist tradition here. Like watching a car accident. Rubber necking on the freeway. Even that in and of itself is tacky. My voyeurism. My criticism itself is absurd.  I'm tacky for even posting this as it's an admission I take these videos seriously enough to type this out. There is no hope. All is lost on youtube.

It's all about control of power...

Perhaps it's just cynical old me, but any system could be manipulated in any way, shape or form to fit the preferences of those at the top who command it as if it's a preference on a luxury car. If you can pick and choose to have a hereditary rule political power system running with a state property ownership system, you can basically pick and choose anything you like for your political system of government. Play some civilization simulation games such as "civilization" to see what I mean.

"Any true communist would understand we dont need a personality cult built on a hereditarian Stalinist military bureaucracy."Just so it is!