The leader is very unpopular, his approval rating is currently 20% approval, 71% disapproval according to Morning Consult, reaching lows of 18% approval, 75% disapproval.
Also there have been strikes against neoliberalism, US robbing the country, anti-war protests and getting the president to resign. Ryomyong.com covers resistance to him. http://ryomyong.com/index.php?page=south
As for a SK communist party, there’s http://pdp21.kr/ but it’s small, there’s also Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front which is an underground DPRK org in SK.
As for a SK communist party, there’s http://pdp21.kr/ but it’s small
For reasons relating to South Korean Law, there are no communist parties in South Korea. Any political party in the south should not be colloquially called a communist party.
The People’s Democracy Party of South Korea for example calls itself a progressive party that calls for pacifism, increased national autonomy from American interference, women’s rights and liberation, and a more democratic government that better represents the hard-working citizens and agricultural specialists of South Korea.
So let us be respectful of the PDP and South Korea’s laws by not calling any progressive party a communist party. Because that would be illegal.
Communitarianism is the goal and democracy is the means and method. The goal of the People’s Democratic Party is a world of community where everyone lives equally well, and in order to realize this, the entire people, including the working class, must increase their role as owners. Human society progresses from a community society to a non-community society and then back to a community society. If a community society without military occupation, political domination, or economic exploitation is the first positive stage in a society that reflects the archetype of human independence, we are scientifically convinced of the dialectical process that goes through the negative stage and then again to the negative negative stage. In Choi Chi-won’s Nanrangmi Preface, “Gukukhyeonmyojidowalpungryu,” that is, “There is a mysterious way in this land, and it is called Pungryu,” we confirm that there is communality at the root of our nationality. . We oppose the social democratic concept of publicness and emphasize the communalistic concept of commonality
Literally describing the transition of humanity from primitive communism to communism with a lot of winking.
Were I to discuss the party in the future, I’d follow your suggestion regardless, but are the words of anglophones on the internet really what is keeping the occupation government from killing the PDP?
This is more to help keep unnecessary active awareness of non-state actors away from our work whenever members of the PDP travel abroad, in addition to avoid the stigmatization that comes with Koreans being communists in a world where the DPRK exists as one of the most propagandized AES states on earth.
Imagine being a Korean, and when telling someone about your ethnicity they without fail in the first sentence ask “North Korean or South Korean?” or some variant along those lines. Other than that being a part of my and many korean-american’s lived experiences, it serves as a constant reminder that Communist Korea exists as a constant in the minds of nearly everyone in the West. It does pay to be careful sometimes lol.
Does Korea have their own “Vietcong”? By “Vietcong”, I meant the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam that was extremely popular with the South Vietnamese populace, especially in the countryside.
Without a “Vietcong”, I can’t imagine any way that DPRK is going to unify Korea.
The leader is very unpopular, his approval rating is currently 20% approval, 71% disapproval according to Morning Consult, reaching lows of 18% approval, 75% disapproval.
Also there have been strikes against neoliberalism, US robbing the country, anti-war protests and getting the president to resign. Ryomyong.com covers resistance to him. http://ryomyong.com/index.php?page=south
As for a SK communist party, there’s http://pdp21.kr/ but it’s small, there’s also Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front which is an underground DPRK org in SK.
For reasons relating to South Korean Law, there are no communist parties in South Korea. Any political party in the south should not be colloquially called a communist party.
The People’s Democracy Party of South Korea for example calls itself a progressive party that calls for pacifism, increased national autonomy from American interference, women’s rights and liberation, and a more democratic government that better represents the hard-working citizens and agricultural specialists of South Korea.
So let us be respectful of the PDP and South Korea’s laws by not calling any progressive party a communist party. Because that would be illegal.
It signs solidnet.org statements.
Those are all ML parties:
Worker’s Party of Korea in the DPRK
Workers party of Bangladesh
Workers party of Belgium
Russian Communist WP
Workers party Ireland
Still not a communist party.
It participates in the WAP as well which only has Marxist-Leninist parties.
obviously not because it contains Marxist-Leninist parties, and one progressive party.
it’s 100% communist internally
They quite openly declare they are not communist internally or externally, because communists are illegal in Korea.
They call themselves “communalist” ;) ;) and reject social democracy http://pdp21.kr/?p=116863
Literally describing the transition of humanity from primitive communism to communism with a lot of winking.
Were I to discuss the party in the future, I’d follow your suggestion regardless, but are the words of anglophones on the internet really what is keeping the occupation government from killing the PDP?
This is more to help keep unnecessary active awareness of non-state actors away from our work whenever members of the PDP travel abroad, in addition to avoid the stigmatization that comes with Koreans being communists in a world where the DPRK exists as one of the most propagandized AES states on earth.
Imagine being a Korean, and when telling someone about your ethnicity they without fail in the first sentence ask “North Korean or South Korean?” or some variant along those lines. Other than that being a part of my and many korean-american’s lived experiences, it serves as a constant reminder that Communist Korea exists as a constant in the minds of nearly everyone in the West. It does pay to be careful sometimes lol.
Thank you for the explanation, that makes sense.
Does Korea have their own “Vietcong”? By “Vietcong”, I meant the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam that was extremely popular with the South Vietnamese populace, especially in the countryside.
Without a “Vietcong”, I can’t imagine any way that DPRK is going to unify Korea.