I don't have all the links I had saved on reddit anymore so I'm trying to get ahead of the next struggle session and I think it would be beneficial for everybody if we planned it out ahead of time. We should at least figure out what it will be about and when it should start. Any ideas? I was thinking we should do something a little bit different than the usual.

    • Amorphous [any]
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      4 years ago

      No, that struggle session is just depressing. Crazy how many people still eat up the CIA line on that one.

      • spectre [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        If anyone still isn't clear on this, read North Korea: Another Country. It's by a lib U Chicago professor and was written in 2004 for context. The guy is a Korean history expert, and makes it clear that as much as he dislikes the DPRK, they have never been an unjustified aggressor or a threat, or much of anything that they are depicted as in the media (which takes some truths and makes them sound MUCH worse than they are while stripping it all of the context of ROK and USA aggression over the past 70 years.

        The DPRK, being an existing state, DOEs indeed have issues, but when it comes down to it at the end of the day the only really remarkable things about them are that they've successfully resisted Western aggression, and they have a kinda weird culture that's frozen in the 1950s.

    • glk [none/use name]
      1·
      4 years ago

      If Park Chung-Hee wasn't a leader of an anti-communist state leftists would stan him.