• Ramsesder13te@feddit.org
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    9 hours ago

    To be fair none of these countries is socialist or even communist. And we hardly have accurate statistics about north Korea. Not that I disagree with the underlying point.

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      Both countries are run by ML parties following revolution and would therefore be designated both socialist and communist based on like 100 years of precedent.

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        The WPK is Kimilsungist-Kimjongilist, technically, though ML is accepted as the basis of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, just with the juche idea added on top.

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      Both China and the DPRK are socialist countries. Public ownership is the principal aspect of their economies, and the working classes control the state.

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          Doubt all you like, but both the WPK and CPC are overwhelmingly proletarian parties in states where the commanding heights and backbone of the economy are publicly owned at a minimum.

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        4 hours ago

        I did but i would be genuinely interested what you mean. Maybe I should have frased it as genuinely socialist or fully socialist I admit that.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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          Socialism is a transitional state between capitalism and communism, where the working class holds power in society but existing social relations have not been abolished. This is precisely what you have in China and DPRK. Both are genuinely socialist.