[lbo-talk] WWP/N. Korea

[Dennis Perrin]

> In a just world, white liberal yuppies would have to go to North Korea,
> Cuba, Guatemala, Colombia, Palestine and so forth and get down on their
> knees and beg the workers there for forgiveness for what they and their
> government have been doing to them.  I'm sure the Rothschild's usury in
> Europe had negative effects on the borrowers, but I wouldn't feel pleasant
> sitting among the Nazi high command and looking for the speck in the Jews,
> or the Russians eyes during the 1930s.  While you white yuppie liberals
> and "progressives" sit around wringing your hands about the WWP and North
> Korea, I'm going to go down and help them in their solidarity efforts to
> Colombia and other places.  You can sit on your asses and wring your hands
> and go on Fox News and criticize the people out doing something.
>
> Lance

Oh please. This posturing is as bad as the conduct you deplore. There are
many on this list who've participated in a number actions to help those on
the business end of the US barrel, esp those in Latin America and the Middle
East. How many death squad bullets have you personally taken on behalf of
the oppressed?

As for North Korea and the WWP, the main objection, at least to me, is that
when opposing US power, one should not celebrate the worst elements of those
in the cross hairs. It's one thing to oppose war on North Korean workers and
peasants, but it's quite another thing to embrace the corrupt state that
lords over them. The WWP ideologically identifies with an authoritarian
hereditary kingdom, which gives us some idea what their "vision" of a "just"
society is. They are perfectly free do this, of course, just as you are
perfectly free to join them, to chant Kim's name and praise his Correct &
Wise leadership.

DP