Hey! I actually offered something different, namely an ironic take on ROK development in conjunction with DPRK development. But, nobody followed up on it.... Barkley Rosser -----Original Message----- From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Date: Saturday, May 27, 2000 10:27 AM Subject: Re: NK
>Brad De Long wrote:
>
>>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....
>
>Barkley, who seems to thrive on being contrary, says there's life in
>this thread yet, but I still see only the ceaseless reiteration of
>familiar positions. Let's put this one on the shelf for a while, ok?
>
>Doug
>