@vanillaopinions But actually not like the royal family, because Il Sung freed North Korea and they do not steal massive amounts of wealth from the people.
@vanillaopinions There’s a legislative body and an executive branch in DPRK. They don’t “control” North Korea. Kim Il Sung was as if George Washington, Ben Franklin, JFK, and Rambo were all one person. They’re an extremely beloved family, much like the British royal family.
@samstein@kombiz It’s projection. This entire thing is about the greater Israel project. Israel wants the entire Middle East but the existence of Iran will always prevent that.
@Kaimandante Fascists use state power to violently enforce capitalism in a machismo way when the contradictions become too much to control with liberalism alone. How is an orphaned resistance group fascist? Do they have state power? Are they capitalists?
Iran is going to take this war to its existential end and the US is going to frame it as Iran waging war against us because Americans have the memory of goldfish and will have moved on to the next news cycle while Iran is still fighting.
@kombiz The regime may not have overwhelming support, but Iran is a very politically educated population with a long memory. A hamfisted American attempt to turn their ancient homeland into a quagmire will be met with massive popular resistance.
@punainenvarpu@plant_xbasedx@BolshevikBeyond I read Stalin: A Black Legend recently and it was a good explainer on a lot of trotsky’s relationship with Stalin, but the author is clearly on team Stalin so a Trotskyist would definitely argue against some of his points.