Archivist [comrade/them]
I think a serious problem a lot of newly made socialists have struggle with imagining is the viciousness and violence produced by Capitalist Encirclement
Like in the case of DPRK you have never had a more clear cut example of a flowering and budding Communist movement with optimism then have their country cut in half by the imperialist bastards and 20 percent of the population killed in the North. For example read Anna Louise Strongs report from DPRK in 1949 on how optimistic the Koreans were , how all the landlords and reactionaries fled south to find haven under Sygman Rhees (a Korean-American flown in to run the puppet) dictatorship and how they had to suppress Communism in the South through mass executions and mass violence which was only possible because South Korea was occupied by the US
Can you personally imagine a life where 1 in 5 people you know is murdered by imperialists and the effects this would have on your society?
Like there was a nice thread on here I saw earlier about “what would you do after the revolution?” and whilst the replies were heartwarming and what I could imagine when so many socialist revolutions have broken out that we can now talk of a world of Socialist Encirclement (ie. Socialist nations encircling the last few hold outs of bourgeois reaction)… But under current conditions my answer would be “imprison every CEO/Major shareholder/Reactionary newspaper CEOS and directors and the majority of the Army officer core and work 24/7 to to prepare the industries and Peoples Army for the inevitable Capitalist invasion and/or internal counter-revolution that is coming our way”.
These bastards are so afraid of Socialism that even 70 years later they have to basically siege the DPRK medieval style with economic embargoes to ensure they remain poor as an example to the world and there is no alternative to the “Washington Consensus”
Even despite this and against all odds they’ve finally managed to build ICBMs which means the US terrorists will never, never again murder 20 percent of the Koreans in the north while dropping anthrax, the bubonic plague and a million other biological and chemical warfare bombs on them.
!tactics@hexbear.net is read-only or I would have posted there. Look through this and comment with what should be taken out + comments from that or other posts that are useful.
Most of this is probably going to be trash LARP suggestions, but whatever. That’s why I also made some art for the cover image.