DPRK cont.

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Apr 26 12:38:55 PDT 2000


Sam Pawlett quoted Bruce Cumings:


>If East Asian development in recent decades has demonstrated anything,
>it is that rapid capitalist growth is not incompatible with strong
>central state power. Thus it was quite predictable that Kim Jong U told
>reporters that P'y6ngyang "would like to take Singapore as a model"; it
>combines, in his view, "great freedom in business activities" with "good
>order, discipline and observation of laws.

So many creative definitions of socialism these days. First China, now this...

Doug



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