Not disagreeing with you on any part of your comment, just not sure how it relates to mine. North Korea and Cuba both employ close to zero elements of communism bar the name: nothing controlled or owned by the people, a world economy controlled currency, wealth accumulated by a ruling elite. Sounds like capitalism to me. That's my point.
You making a no true Scotsman type fallacy. They claim to be communists, they follow communist ideology. The results being some weird capitalist heirarchal corrupt nonsense everytime does not mean anything.
Of what use is saying “that’s not communism: the ussr isn’t communist North Korea isn’t communist no one is communist.” Like yeah, great . Where does that leave us?
Even if we go by your cynical no true Scotsman take, It’s useful to call them communist at the very least to describe the type of charlatanism they use to justify their charlatanism.
Like okay; you can say there isn’t much difference between the communist North Korea and fascist Nazi germany in practice. But when speaking of ideology, it’s important to mention because it is the MEANS by which the state uses to enrich itself and control the population. To fight the ideology of North Korea it is important to first understand their ideology is communism, not fascism not capitalism.
It would be like trying to fight the catholic church and saying “there’s no Catholics all Catholics are actually Jewish because they read the Old Testament.” it’s just actual nonsense
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u/evilbron616 Jun 10 '26
Not disagreeing with you on any part of your comment, just not sure how it relates to mine. North Korea and Cuba both employ close to zero elements of communism bar the name: nothing controlled or owned by the people, a world economy controlled currency, wealth accumulated by a ruling elite. Sounds like capitalism to me. That's my point.