-----Mensagem original----- De: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]Em nome de Brad De Long Enviada em: sexta-feira, 26 de maio de 2000 22:09 Para: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Assunto: Re: NK
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> 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...
>Excuse me, but I think SK also used internal passport during dictatorship
years, so we cannot speak about freedom to trael 9althought I´m not sure on
my information sources...does someone knows about this?). As for freedom to
read it´s a bad joke since there was censorship. And I´m not uncertain if NK
workers was prohibited from changing jobs....So the only disputed right here
is freedom of travel...On your last phrase I agree 100% with you.
Alexandre