When i was in Catholic school they taught the idea that absolutely everyone needs to be empathized for, so much so that we had to go to Juvie eat with and talk with prisoners for the entire day, i was assigned with this one kid who beat a man to death and did not regret it lmao
Dangerously naive to act like all conflict must be communication problems, because when you try harder to communicate with someone malicious, all it achieves is teaching them how to be even sneakier and even more manipulative. Discernment and willingness to vilify are essential.
La TV china:
- Como científicos es tan esencial tener fe en el Comunismo?
- (...) Los occidentales siguen la ciencia por la ciencia en si, acaban trabajando por fama y fortuna. Nosotros investigamos para servir a la gente. Elegimos ser héroes anónimos en la sombra.
Marx and Engels were not saying every prostitute, homeless person, criminalized person, etc is inherently reactionary by nature. Their point about the lumpenproletariat was that it lacks a stable relation to collective production, meaning they often lack the shared structural…
one could argue that the fact that the North Koreans were able to develop nuclear weapons, survive for this long and now be industrializing again at breakneck speed under 73 years of total sanctions (which briefly China and Russia both adhered to during the 1990s) and still retain their indigenous culture intact as opposed to degenerate occupied Korea
that they are the greatest leaders of all time
South Korea's ruling class is mostly former Japanese collaborators during the occupation and their descendants
while North Korea's ruling class is mostly Righteous Army descendants (guerilla fighters in Manchuria against the Japanese) and their descendants
Inspiring. President Xi has great sorrow in his heart for the plight of the American worker, and wants to help industrialize the young, struggling nation.