Phil The Cat (192 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Nov-26-10 01:13 AM
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1. Are we on the wrong side in Korea?
The SoKo government appears to be a RW capitalist money grubbing corporatist puppet!
Meanwhile, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea HONORS working men and women!
http://asiamatters.blogspot.com/2009/10/north-korean-co...
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Article 4. The sovereignty of the DPRK shall be vested in the working people, which include workers, farmers, soldiers, and working intellectuals. The working people shall exercise their sovereignty through their representative organs -- the Supreme People's Assembly and the local people's assemblies at all levels.
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Article 8. The social system of the DPRK is a man-centered social system whereby the working popular masses are the masters of everything, and everything in society serves the working popular masses. The state shall safeguard the interests of, and respect and protect the human rights of the working people, including workers, farmers, soldiers, and working intellectuals, who have been freed from exploitation and oppression and have become the masters of the state and society.
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Article 17. Independence, peace, and friendship are the basic ideas of the DPRK's foreign policy and the principles of its external activities. The state shall establish diplomatic and political, economic, and cultural relations with all the countries that treat our country in a friendly manner, on the principles of complete equality and independence, mutual respect and noninterference in each other's internal affairs, and reciprocity. The state shall unite with the peoples of the world who espouse independence and shall actively support and encourage the struggle of the peoples of all countries to oppose all forms of aggression and interference in others' internal affairs and to achieve the sovereignty of their countries and national and class liberation.
Phil The Cat (192 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Nov-26-10 01:47 AM
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28. I'm not saying North Korea is Heaven
Especially after years and years of attack and oppression from the capitalists!
But their constitution is an amazing piece of work in defining and protecting socialist workers' rights!
More from the Constitution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea:
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Article 47. The state shall educate all students free of charge and give scholarships to students of universities and technical schools.
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Article 56. The state shall consolidate and develop the system of universal free medical care and strengthen the district-doctor system and the preventive medicine system to protect the lives of people and improve the health of the working people.
Article 57. The state shall draw up environmental protection measures before production, preserve and develop the natural environment, and prevent environmental pollution, thus providing the people with a modern and hygienic living environment and working conditions.
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Aren't these the exact things that progressives in the west are fighting for?
Again, it's not perfect, but look what they have been struggling against! American imperialism, saboteurs, counter-revolutionaries, Moonies, etc!
Phil The Cat (192 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Nov-26-10 01:31 AM
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15. More from the DPRK Constitution
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Article 19. The DPRK shall base itself on the socialist production relations and the foundation of a self-supporting national economy.
Article 20. In the DPRK, the means of production are owned by the state and social cooperative organizations.
Article 21. The property of the state shall be the property of all the people. There shall be no limit to the property which the state can own. All the natural resources of the country, railways, air transportation, telecommunications and postal organs, as well as major factories, enterprises, ports, and banks, shall be owned solely by the state. The state shall protect and develop on a priority basis the property of the state, which plays a leading role in the economic development of the country.
Article 22. The property of social cooperative organizations shall be the collective property of the working people belonging to the organizations concerned. Such property as land, farm machinery, ships, small- and medium-sized factories, and enterprises may be owned by social cooperative organizations.
The state shall protect the property of social cooperative organizations.
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Article 25. The DPRK shall regard it as the supreme principle of its activities to ceaselessly improve the material and cultural living standards of the people. The increasing material wealth of the society in our country, where taxes have been abolished, shall be used entirely to promote the welfare of the working people. The state shall provide all the working people with every condition for obtaining food, clothing, and housing.
Article 26 . The self-supporting national economy provided in the DPRK is a firm foundation for the happy socialist lives of the people and for the affluence and prosperity of the fatherland. The state shall adhere to the socialist line of building a self-supporting national economy and accelerate the chuch'e-orientation, modernization, and scientification of the people's economy to turn the people's economy into a highly advanced chuch'e-oriented economy, and shall struggle to build material and technological foundations befitting a completely socialist society.
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No bloated pink-skinned fat cat Right Wing capitalists stealing the people's resources in North Korea!
Kim Jong Il may be a bit ecccentric, but the DPRK constitution has a lot more protection for the common, law-abiding man and woman than our own! He, like President Chavez, stand WITH their people and AGAINST corporatism and personal greed!
(CWIS is a ship-based enclosed gatling gun on a rotating platform that spits out 1000 5-inch rounds a minute for about five minutes to cut down an incoming missile before it hits the ship)
:lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
DUmmies are funny when they act like they know something about military hardware.
Phil The Cat (196 posts) Fri Nov-26-10 02:49 AM
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63. Let's start right here in America
Tens of millions of people homeless, starving, dying of ailments they cannot afford to have treated!
The DPRK provides free education and health care, and guarantees a job!
The profits of their enterprises are owned by the people, for their welfare and defense! They are not given to a few rich bloated RW stockholders!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9632273
This is either a mole or, this guy is completely nuts.
In the interest of fairness not one of the other goons agrees with him in this thread about NK being a paradise.
A typical post from Phil:
He punctuates each and every one of his sentences with an exclamation point. Personally, I don't think he's a mole, he seems to really believe this shit. We've seen the communists come out of the woodwork there.
Some of the DUmmies say "NK give socialism a bad name!" Ya think?
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34. I will say this again Phil
but the SOVIET constitution, which this is based on, was also a wonder... in paper.
The problem is not that in theory is a bad one... but that it has never been implemented. And you can blame the Capitalists for all you want but it is not.
People starve in the DPKR.
Yes "socialism" works... but it does in a mixed economy... where there are heavy regulations and things like living wages and all that. I suggest you read Adam Smith, who got it... not those who claim to know the holy book but never read it. In fact Consumerism is not Capitalism nor is our emphasis on Monopolies,
But hey, whatever, given the RECORD you are going to get few people listening to you. Like the Soviet Constitution this one hits all the right points. It don't deliver. It is a piece of paper.
Hits all the talking points: Socialism/Communism has never really been implemented, it works it just has to be done a certain way, etc...
The problem is even if it starts out the right way, it'll end up being the USSR or the DPKR. The shortsightedness, stupidity, and immaturity of the primitives doesn't permit them to see beyond "it hasn't been done the right way."
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Yes "socialism" works... but it does in a mixed economy... where there are heavy regulations and things like living wages and all that.
:lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
DUmmies are funny when they act like they know something about military hardware.
The problem is not that in theory is a bad one... but that it has never been implemented.
Phil The Cat (192 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Nov-26-10 01:47 AMSuch a classic display of ignorance in this post. Socialism = Fail.
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28. I'm not saying North Korea is Heaven Especially after years and years of attack and oppression from the capitalists!
But their constitution is an amazing piece of work in defining and protecting socialist workers' rights! More from the Constitution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea:
Phil The Cat (192 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Nov-26-10 01:13 AM
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1. Are we on the wrong side in Korea?
The SoKo government appears to be a RW capitalist money grubbing corporatist puppet!
Meanwhile, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea HONORS working men and women!
(http://www.atr.org/userfiles/korea-by-night.jpg)