RES: a trip to North Korea

[Jacob Segal]

>>>> Jacob Segal <jpsegal at rcn.com> 04/23/00 01:32PM >>>
>Interesting too for Yoshie to compare the cult of personality in North
>Korea to the cult of the Founding Fathers in the US, but I do think that
>the cult in North Korea is of a seriously greater intensity and allow for
>no dissent at all.
>
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>CB: How about the slaves the Founding Fathers like Jefferson and
>Washington owned ? Did they have any power to dissent ? How about the
>Native Americans ?  Did the Founding Fathers allow them to dissent ?  How
>about the all of the white women who couldn't vote ?
>
>How ridiculous to claim that a genocidal,slave , male supremecist system
>allowed more dissent than N. Korea 2000.
>
>CB

Surely it is obviously I meant contemporary US society.  Clearly, the US as
a slave society and genicidal towards native-Americans was much worse than
Communist North Korea.

Question for Charles Brown:  When you speak of Cuban democracy it seems to
me that the "Cuban people" become a homogenous groups without internal
disagreements and division.  Democracy without disagreement is no democracy
at all, which is the problem with US democracy, as you correcly point out.
The construction of a Cuban people this way reminds me of the jinogistic
assertion of the will of the American People, again understood as a single
entity.

Jacob Segal