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https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/stupidpol/comments/1rr3ovp/as_a_marxist_it_is_immature_to_not_support_north/

Title. In essence, I think it is backwards and chauvinistic to not support the DPRK as an actually existing socialist nation. I do not think you need to defend every action they take; some of their propagandist measures are extreme. However, to deny the immense strides they have made after a recent genocide and extensive sanctions is obtuse. They have managed to majorly industrialize to the extent that Pyongyang is now being referred to as "Pyonghattan" and have seen trememndous growth in some of the outerlying regions.

Despite this, you will see uneducated liberals and supposed "leftists" such as anarchists blatantly repeat CIA talking points such as having to "push trains". Further, their "war-mongering" in light of Iran has been proven to be what it always was; a desperate attempt against a superpower to ensure their economic and political independence and freedom.

The reality is that Juche Marxism has garnered levels of infrastructural, scientific, educational and public health achievements that would be unthinkable for a capitalist nation under the same economic restrictions and history. Its model of state-led industrialization, combined with social welfare, demonstrates that socialism is not a utopian dream, it is an experiment in collective advancement.

Marxism demands that we approach life through the lens of dialectical materialism; to deny North Korea its status as a developing socialist nation is to be reactionary.

I do not know how we undo the decades of anti-DPRK propaganda en-masse that is often times downright silly and absurd (ie. "North Koreans do not think that any nation exists outside of their borders" which is obviously untrue), but in order to shift the Overton window of normalizing relations with the DPRK, we would be best suited to start in our own backyard, socialist discourse.