States of repression
The only thing "new" in North Korea's new year is that their hell is under new management. "The great leader," Kim Jong-il, has been replaced by Kim Jong-un, "the great successor," but the state that causes incomprehensible misery for its unfortunate inhabitants continues tyrannically along.
Under communism, the state is supposed to wither away; instead, it becomes ubiquitous. Why? The answer is economics.
Frederick Engels, who should know a thing or two about communism, wrote, "the state is only a transitional institution ... as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the state as such ceases to exist."
The reason Karl Marx and Engels believed this is because they saw all preceding history as one of class conflict.… Seguir leyendo »