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[Brad De Long]

>
>        Of course, all through this period the ROK was no democracy
>in any way shape or form.  The only areas where it was arguably
>more "liberal" than the DPRK was in freedom of religion, and
>for those who love capitalism, existence of private property.

Freedom to move...
Freedom of occupation...
Freedom to quit your job...
Freedom to travel...
Freedom to read...

There is a very wide gap between a garden-variety dictatorship and 
North Korea under Juche, and there is a wide gap between the 
relatively soft rule exercised by really existing socialism in 
post-WWII eastern Europe and what we *think* went on in North Korea. 
God-Kings are not one of the more pleasant forms of rule that humans 
have invented....

Brad DeLong, looking around for Hannah Arendt...