Ein Trotzkist in Nordkorea oder: Who is the butt of this joke?

Sehr hübscher Artikel in Jacobin: „A Trotskyist Goes to North Korea“ – „So this isn’t “Stone Age communism.” What kind of system is it, then? Socialism? The regime certainly represents itself as socialist, but since the 1990s, all the images of Marx and Lenin have disappeared. (…) Certain comparisons to absolutism come to mind. The Kims have ruled on their peninsula nearly as long as the Saud dynasty on theirs. And there are ubiquitous images of rulers with supposed magical abilities: Kim Jong-Il reportedly claimed he could control the weather.“

Ganz besonders schön ist die Passage über Laibach…. „What if the young dictator was a Dadaist? Could North Korea be a surrealist Gesamtkunstwerk?“ Muahahahaha.