[Endless screaming]

  • KarlBarqs [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    North Korea has kept to itself for something like 70 fucking years and still people are utterly terrified that they’ll leap across the border and do Evil Communist things the moment South Korea’s back is turned

  • JamesConeZone [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    This led me down a rabbit hole of seeing if there’s any strains of Islam in DPRK and sure enough, there is a Shia mosque on the grounds of the Iranian embassy that hosts Friday prayers, Eid celebrations, etc for anyone interested.

    Located within the grounds of the Iranian embassy in Pyongyang, the Rahman Mosque was established in 1985, according to a sign posted on the outside of the building. Iran, a predominately Shia Muslim country, originally built the mosque at its North Korea embassy compound for staff-only use. But today, Muslims of all faiths can attend services at the Rahman Mosque, and the site is a key pillar of the Islamic community in Pyongyang

    pretty neat

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      that hosts Friday prayers, Eid celebrations, etc for anyone interested.

      Could you give me direct link or copypaste the text here? archive.is is broken for me, it makes me do a captcha and then it reloads and makes me do the captcha again instead of showing me the article…

        • StalinForTime [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          Learn to read. It has literally nothing to due with them being Muslims. My criticism is that they are Islamists. If you are unable to make that distinction then there’s a problem. When I do militant activity (almost every day), I do actually encounter a issue due to Islamism, especially in relation to trying to organize in support of Palestine. So frankly if I had to guess Id say that you’re probably an ultraleftist yank masquerading as an ML who has never been involved in the construction of an actual Leninist party.

          • Judge_Jury [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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            Hell, I guess I’ll make a real reply too. The struggle for national liberation comes first, which in the present context universally means the struggle against western domination. Islamists aren’t your enemy either except where they serve western interests, which Iran plainly does not. Whining about the DPRK allowing a mosque serves only western interests, like most criticisms of AES states coming from outside of those states

              • Judge_Jury [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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                The west is the foremost enemy of communism, globally. My stance has nothing to do with whether I think a political entity is good or bad, as you put it. My stance is that AES states know what they’re doing better than some bozo on the internet. Do you think the DPRK thinks Iran is its bestie?

                You want to talk about doing militant action on the daily? You want to talk about sass? That’s rich coming from the person saying that the DPRK is “supposed to be an ML country”

                • StalinForTime [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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                  I didn’t say that the DPRK were not Communist, though I’d also argue that any serious analysis of the history of the place, to the extent we have access to it( though lack of evidence doesn’t imply any positive conclusions either, something many people here also seem not to understand), also leaves much to be desired, though that obviously is materially very much a result of the incredibly difficult position they have always found themselves in.

                  Again, you are not actually making an effort to respond to what I’m saying, and you’re responding moralistically. You’re embarrassing yourself. Take the L and move on. If you can’t actually argue these points in terms of there content, but have to always retreat to a meta-position over the argument call someone a bozo, then that says a lot more about the weakness of what you’re saying than what I am saying.

                  You really need to get over this infantile idea that the only people who can any have any possible legitimate opinion on the place Fuck off with that reactionary nationalism. Since when has ever been the case in the history of communism? I guess Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin’s opinions on places they had never been were always totally incorrect then? You seem to be implying that when convenient. The only criterion is the arguments and evidence you have, and you haven’t provided any real substantial ones, making a bunch of simplications, and invalidly reasoning to conclusions that what you are saying doesn’t imply.

                  You want to know what communists from these places think? Again: please tell my comrades who have had their families raped, murdered and tortured by Islamists that they are not in fact reactionary or their enemies. You’re rather conveniently ignoring this point.

                  Even if (which I agree is a fact) the US-hegemonic Imperialist system is the primary enemy of communism in an overall sense, or the most powerful enemy of communist movements, and so there has to be anti-imperialism as a central focus of any leftist movement, and this has to recognize that otherwise deeply reactionary groups are currently the only armed means for opposing Israeli fascism, settler-colonialism, apartheid and imperialism, and that that implies that communists there have to cooperate (all of which is obvious and not what is up for discussion), you making the inference that this implies that there cannot be opposition to anything else more broadly, or that Communists should not clearly express their opposition to, and criticisms of, far-right theocracy because they are opposed to US imperialism, is so infantile and detached from reality that it honestly beggars belief. This isnt fucking hearts of iron. Some people are actually communists in these societies. Doing apologism for reactionary groups simply because they oppose the West is opposed to them is itself doing the anti-communist propaganda of the West for them.

          • GaveUp [she/her]@hexbear.net
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            Ohhh spicy drama, could you please repost the removed comment but I guess make it more palatable so I know what you 2 are arguing about?

          • JamesConeZone [they/them]@hexbear.net
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            All AES have freedom of religion with party officials acting as regulators to ensure imperialism does not enter through religion.

            • Read the Chinese Community Party Central Committee’s The Basic Viewpoint and Policy on the Religious Question during Our Country’s Socialist Period from 1982 (also called Document 19). In addition to banning feudal religious rights and foreign missions agencies, they also admit that making religion illegal does more harm than good and make plans for the future by creating regulatory bodies for each major religion. In doing so, they are allowing people to be religious within the confines of a communist society rather than capitalist imperialism. They also predict a consistent decrease in religiosity but, in the 40 years since it’s publication, religiosity has continued to increase in China.
            • DPRK has a Buddhist Federation and Christian Federation to supervise all activities. They seem a bit laxer than CPC, perhaps due to Kim Il Sung’s Christian upbringing.
            • The policies of banning cults has been successful in China, Falun Gong and the Moonies being the most popular ones stamped out.
            • The building of communism is the priority. Religion serves to bolster that and gives a connection to non-communist communities as a way to continue to build an internationalist vision of communism.

            If China and North Korea understand this, have had massive success in doing so (nevermind Cuba among others) and are succeeding in building communism in spite of fucking everything this world throws at them, I’d say it’s a good example to follow.

              • JamesConeZone [they/them]@hexbear.net
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                sicko-wistful

                Xi has increased regulation recently to combat this, but yeah, it’s still a problem. Vatican still cries about not having any say over the Chinese Catholics which is very funny to me

            • StalinForTime [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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              Yes. I’m very aware. I’m guessing you haven’t seen other points where I’m fine with great degree of freedom of religion, indeed more than the vast majority of people on this site. You seem to be missing my point, which is that ML having to compromise through relations with Islamist theocratic states is a shame, in particular as the particular form of Shia Islam promoted by Iran is particularly nefarious, it being Islamist.

              • LesbianLiberty [she/her]@hexbear.net
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                Global south liberation is more important than handwringing about specifics like this. When hands are finally off a region, they’ll be allowed to develop in their own way, and then the basis for a revolution will be even more possible. AES forming an anti-Occidental bloc to combat international-community-1international-community-2 is more important for our vision than insisting that these societies must now immediately conform to our ideas. Not to say queer lib, women’s lib, worker lib, etc is not important; but instead that by working against these countries we delay those things even more.

    • NPa [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      2086 Presidential Debates:

      the-republican "First off, I would like to begin by denouncing my opponent for his ties to North-Korean style Satanic Fentanyl Cartels smuggling Migrants across the borders to enact their Putinist-Communist Islamic Radical Feminism in the hopes that every woman in the U-nited STates will have a spontaneous abortion so they can use the confusion to take our guns away. I yield the rest of my time. "

      the-democrat “I have never, nor will I ever be, a part of NKSFCMPCIRF. My friend across the aisle here, who I often see privately on his estate in Texas for drinks, is simply trying to smear my good name. In fact, my fellow Democratic congressmen recently approved funding for an array of autonomous hunter-killer drones to patrol the borders and inner cities for evidence of uncouth and uncivil behavior, which we all know is grounds for the immediate execution of any low-income offender. My hope is that we can perhaps work together on larger issues like the giant sinkhole that has opened up in the middle of the US, and is currently threatening the tectonic stability -”

      the-republican “HORSE SHIT! There’s no dang evidence of any pot hole, look I’ll call my sister in Nebraska right now, you’ll see.”

      the-democrat “I completely concede my point, you’re absolutely right sir. Please take my wife too.”