slowly walking towards the sign waving “anti-imperialist” DSA, checking for kneejerk reptilian brain reactions 👁️
It’s not a good rule of thumb because most people are misinformed in about a million different ways. Partially deprogrammed people are not CIA sleeper agents, jesus.
Also I’d assume intelligence assets know enough to pretend to be pro-DPRK to the right people.
The only thing a person’s reaction to juche is useful for is whether they have a decent understanding of imperialism and capitalist propaganda. Nothing more.
It’s true. I said something positive about the DPRK to someone a few days ago and got a side eye from someone who is also a leftist
Not surprising if that person is an anarchist or demsoc.
Even as an ML, the DPRK is still challenging to defend because:
- DPRK never had the absurdly fast economic growth like the USSR & PRC did
- fear mongering about nuclear weapons
- chain of succession looks suspiciously like a monarchy
- extremely thick propaganda surrounding them, even when compared to other socialist states
- lack of trustworthy sources of information on their internal affairs
It makes perfect sense to me why the DPRK would be the last socialist state a Marxist would come around to during their deprogramming.
What did you say about the DPRK that got you the side eye?
