Antiwar movement procustean bed

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Tue Oct 30 12:53:21 PST 2001


Thomas Seay>...That's right, Chuck. After all, they support just another type of repressive regime. The American capitalists cry about socialist regimes, like North Korea...and the WWP cries about capitalism while supporting North Korea.

http://www.google.com/search?q=Aquariums+Pyongyang The Aquariums of Pyongyang

North Korea is one of the last bastions of hard-line Communism, and its leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party regime. Until recently, no one ever managed to leave the country. Kang Chol-Hwan was interned in a North Korean work camp at the age of nine along with other members of his family. He grew up in the North Korean work camps but escaped to South Korea and documented his experiences. This book is the first testimonial to the hardships and atrocities that several hundred thousand people living in the gulag must endure every day. Chol-Hwan’s account reveals the life and death conditions of the camp, the forced labor, the mental repression, the organized famine, the farcical trials, and the daily "political training" that followed twelve hours of physical labor. Part historical document, part memoir, and part political tract, this book brings together unassailable first hand experience, setting one young man’s personal suffering in the wider context of modern history.

Co-author Pierre Rigoulot is a contributing author to The Black Book of Communism.



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