Blogger’s Note: I am not a pedlar of fanatical adherence to other systems. Why? Well, each region, locale, and circumstance vary in dialectical reality. This is the product of quite different and distinct historical pathways that have developed in the past, and flowed into the present. North Korea is North Korea and I doubt much of what that country does today – has much relevance to the contemporary state of “bourgeois” Great Britain (other than in the broadest, inspirational sense). A Socialist Revolution “here” – will NOT be anything like a Socialist Revolution “there” (despite each perhaps sharing certain key elements). This does not, however, deny the reality that “Socialism” is required in not only both places – but all places (this is why each section of the Proletariat can “learn” from the leaders of other Proletariat groups). A Socialist Revolution is marked by the working class seizing control of the means of production and the forces of production – but this is NOT “Socialism” – it is the path leading to Socialism, and it is a path that must be followed from the victory of the overthrow to the establishment of Socialism. Even China has not yet achieved this – as such a transformation generally evolves around a dramatic economic development a consequential passing-on of this benefit to the people. The bourgeois (capitalist) powers know this (they have studied their Marx and Lenin) and they prevent this by severely “sanctioning” each individual country – so that each Proletariat nation is permanently isolated from any benefit that might be provided through trade with the capitalists.
Cuba is a telling example of this – North Korea is another – but there has been endless Central and South American countries destroyed by the US, as was Malaya and Kampuchea. The post-1956 USSR was brought-down by the Trotskyites at the behest of the US capitalists. This took just 36-years (1956-1991) – a phenomenal investment (and relatively “quick” process) of spending US tax-dollars! China was a “mistake” made by the Clinton Administration in the early and latter 1990s. Bill Clinton falsely thought that if the PRC was granted the coveted “Favoured Nation Status” (he even “shared” early internet technology – which the PRC accepted – before “banning” the Western internet from all areas of Chinese sovereign control) – its people would become drunk on capitalist profit and eventually overthrow the Communist Party of China (CPC). Even Margaret Thatcher was recorded stating that a China that engaged capitalist market forces – cannot remain shackled to Socialist ideology and economic-developmet models (just prior to falling-down the steps of the “Hall of the People”). As China became ever-more affluent during the 1980s – the masses took this as a dramatic success achieved by the CPC – which, of course, it was. The CPC simply renamed capitalist market forces as “Socialist market forces” – and away the national economy galloped!
The point is, as Marx continuously emphasised, the dialectical reality of each region will require a localised “balancing-up” before a genuine “International” Socialism is achieved. An added problem is that the 1917 Socialist Revolution has suffered many defeats, set-backs, and eradications by the reactionary (Trotskyite) forces of the capitalist world. The US is currently the strongest manifestation of the bourgeois revolution – the rich farmers and merchants who managed to detach themselves from their poor and politically powerless peasant foundations – gaining their own money, political power, and weaponry, etc. The “bourgeois” always mimicked their social betters (the “Aristocracy”) – at the same time seeking to usurp bourgeois political power – whilst maintaining bourgeois attitudes and traditions. This is the base-hypocracy that the bourgeois (as a class) perpetuates. Whilst continuously destroying regimes for alleged Human Rights violations, for instance, the US has continuously violated Human Rights, and so on. North Korea is currently a victim of this US duplicity – but its people may be fully respected for the manner in which the Korean Proletariat (in reality – there is NO “North” or “South”) confront this process. We do not need to dress like a North Korean to recognise these facts. We do not need to congeal around a pseudo-support network outside of North Korea – a support network that the North Koreans neither acknowledge or support. Al we have to do is be good Proletariats. ACW (27.11.2024)
One day in January 2015, the respected Comrade Kim Jong lUn visited the Ryuwon Footwear Factory.
He appreciated that the factory made great achievements in implementing the Workers’ Party of Korea’s policy on realizing the diversification and multi-coloring in the footwear production. He also acquainted himself with the development of new products at the factory.
Saying that all consumer goods are directly related to the people’s living, he added that to fully supply quality consumer goods is not merely an economic and technical affair but an important matter of valuing and defending our own things and demonstrating the advantages of our social system.
He stressed the need for industrial establishments to put production on a normal footing and steadily improve the quality of products so that the people can benefit from them, not content with the production and display of samples.
His instructions clearly indicate the criteria of thinking and practice of officials who are directly responsible for improving the people’s standard of living. (End)
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