Kim Jong-il 1941-2011

[erudito]

Leninism is Marxism operationalised. Stalinism is Leninism with an intense cult of personality added. Hereditary Stalinism, which is what North Korea (or the Kim Family Regime as US military forces call it) has, must be one of the strangest political manifestations of our time. It is even stranger given that many analysts count its official

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[jordan179]

Property derives from the nature of things, that a specific lot of a given resource may not be put to more than one use at the same time. Property therefore cannot be abolished. The attempt at its abolition merely means that whatever authority is in charge of its management (and some authority must be in charge of this, if the property is to be used at all efficiently) winds up in charge of everything, which is to say that it becomes "totalitarian." Since executive leadership is inherently unitary, attempts to achieve Communism always finish in autocracy of the most total kind: the autocrat effectively treats the whole nation, including its inhabitants, as his chattels.

Why Communism Inevitably Leads to Totalitarian Autocracy

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[ford_prefect42]

Let us say, rather that this is an *opportunity* for the winds of change. Kim Jong Un MAY be simply a younger version of Kim Il, or he may not. The people of NorK MAY accept him as the new "dear leader", or they may not. Kim Un may be *worse*, Kim Il could usually be talked out of his more precipitate actions, there's no guarantee that Kim Un will have that humility.

In either case, a horror of a man is dead, and another may or may not be coming.

[assassinus]

Yeah...Hereditary dictators are problematical... sometimes people are just not meant to lead..and I think this was the case and may be the case with his son.
Also not sure the young Assad is doing as well as his dad!