Это место, в котором право-левая подкова смыкается. Каммингс - безусловно левых взглядов и сочувствует северным корейцам, жертвам империализма. В 2010, когда вышла его книга "The Korean War: A History", появилась другая влиятельная книга, "The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves - and Why It Matters". Основной тезис: несмотря на исторические связи со Сталиным и Мао современная КНДР - не ультралевая, а ультраправая диктатура. Поэтому попытки договариваться с ней, как с СССР, заходят в неизбежный тупик.
"I aim to explain North Korea's dominant ideology or worldview - I use the words inter- changeably - and to show how far removed it is from communism, Confucianism and the show-window doctrine of Juche Thought. Far from complex, it can be summarized in a single sentence: The Korean people are too pure blooded, and therefore too virtuous, to survive in this evil world without a great parental leader. More must be added perhaps, if only to explain that "therefore" to an American reader, but not much more of importance. I need hardly point out that if such a race-based worldview is to be situated on our conventional left-right spectrum, it makes more sense to posit it on the extreme right than on the far left. Indeed, the similarity to the worldview of fascist Japan is striking." https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/books/excerpt-cleanest-race.html
Рецензия Кристофера Хитченса:
The whole idea of communism is dead in North Korea, and its most recent “Constitution,” “ratified” last April, has dropped all mention of the word. The analogies to Confucianism are glib, and such parallels with it as can be drawn are intended by the regime only for the consumption of outsiders. Myers makes a persuasive case that we should instead regard the Kim Jong-il system as a phenomenon of the very extreme and pathological right. It is based on totalitarian “military first” mobilization, is maintained by slave labor, and instills an ideology of the most unapologetic racism and xenophobia. These conclusions of his, in a finely argued and brilliantly written book, carry the worrisome implication that the propaganda of the regime may actually mean exactly what it says, which in turn would mean that peace and disarmament negotiations with it are a waste of time-and perhaps a dangerous waste at that. <...> Myers also points out that many of the slogans employed and displayed by the North Korean state are borrowed directly-this really does count as some kind of irony-from the kamikaze ideology of Japanese imperialism. Every child is told every day of the wonderful possibility of death by immolation in the service of the motherland and taught not to fear the idea of war, not even a nuclear one. The regime cannot rule by terror alone, and now all it has left is its race-based military ideology. Small wonder that each “negotiation” with it is more humiliating than the previous one. As Myers points out, we cannot expect it to bargain away its very raison d’etre. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2010/02/kim-jong-il-s-regime-is-even-weirder-and-more-despicable-than-you-thought.html
>> phenomenon of the very extreme and pathological right.
Любопытный взгляд.
Хотя автор симпатизирует северный корейцам, Камингс всё же называет режим Кима "современной формой монархии", поставившего "сталинизм и марксизм-ленинизм с ног на голову". Т.е старается в панегириста не превращаться.
Это место, в котором право-левая подкова смыкается. Каммингс - безусловно левых взглядов и сочувствует северным корейцам, жертвам империализма. В 2010, когда вышла его книга "The Korean War: A History", появилась другая влиятельная книга, "The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves - and Why It Matters". Основной тезис: несмотря на исторические связи со Сталиным и Мао современная КНДР - не ультралевая, а ультраправая диктатура. Поэтому попытки договариваться с ней, как с СССР, заходят в неизбежный тупик.
"I aim to explain North Korea's dominant ideology or worldview - I use the words inter- changeably - and to show how far removed it is from communism, Confucianism and the show-window doctrine of Juche Thought. Far from complex, it can be summarized in a single sentence: The Korean people are too pure blooded, and therefore too virtuous, to survive in this evil world without a great parental leader. More must be added perhaps, if only to explain that "therefore" to an American reader, but not much more of importance. I need hardly point out that if such a race-based worldview is to be situated on our conventional left-right spectrum, it makes more sense to posit it on the extreme right than on the far left. Indeed, the similarity to the worldview of fascist Japan is striking."
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/books/excerpt-cleanest-race.html
Рецензия Кристофера Хитченса:
The whole idea of communism is dead in North Korea, and its most recent “Constitution,” “ratified” last April, has dropped all mention of the word. The analogies to Confucianism are glib, and such parallels with it as can be drawn are intended by the regime only for the consumption of outsiders. Myers makes a persuasive case that we should instead regard the Kim Jong-il system as a phenomenon of the very extreme and pathological right. It is based on totalitarian “military first” mobilization, is maintained by slave labor, and instills an ideology of the most unapologetic racism and xenophobia.
These conclusions of his, in a finely argued and brilliantly written book, carry the worrisome implication that the propaganda of the regime may actually mean exactly what it says, which in turn would mean that peace and disarmament negotiations with it are a waste of time-and perhaps a dangerous waste at that. <...>
Myers also points out that many of the slogans employed and displayed by the North Korean state are borrowed directly-this really does count as some kind of irony-from the kamikaze ideology of Japanese imperialism. Every child is told every day of the wonderful possibility of death by immolation in the service of the motherland and taught not to fear the idea of war, not even a nuclear one.
The regime cannot rule by terror alone, and now all it has left is its race-based military ideology. Small wonder that each “negotiation” with it is more humiliating than the previous one. As Myers points out, we cannot expect it to bargain away its very raison d’etre.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2010/02/kim-jong-il-s-regime-is-even-weirder-and-more-despicable-than-you-thought.html
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Любопытный взгляд.
Хотя автор симпатизирует северный корейцам, Камингс всё же называет режим Кима "современной формой монархии", поставившего "сталинизм и марксизм-ленинизм с ног на голову". Т.е старается в панегириста не превращаться.
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