>CB: Doug, are you saying there some personality cults that are not
>bizarre running some countries somewhere ? What would you call the
>British monarchy ?
A bizarre personality cult. An imperial contrivance perpetuated by the media. I'm sure one could make a longer list, but those would have to be high up on it.
>A non-bizarre ( non-exotic ? foreign ? ) personality cult ? Or is
>that adjective just a gratuitous exaggeration making North Korea
>worse than some straw country ?
I agree with James Heartfield's distinction - that imperialism made NK what it is, but it's no model of development.
>So, if you are against a small country disengaging completely from
>the outside world , are you for lifting the U.S. embargo and
>removing the troops ?
Of course. Did you think otherwise?
> or what. Are you saying North Korea should yield to the demands of
>imperialism in changing its system in order to engate the outside
>world ?
No. It should do something so its people don't have to eat bark, though.
>Are you saying you can't fulfill your wishes in changing U.S.
>policy, therefore, North Korea should change its system the way the
>U.S. and imperialist countries , and social democrats want it too ?
>Or that you wish NK would get rid of its "bizarre personality cult" ?
I wish it would. I wish the UK and US would shed their bizarre personality cults too. I used to be a member of the Patti Smith personality cult, but that was 20 years ago.
Doug