Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 13:35:31 +0100 (MET)
From: rolf.martens-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se (Rolf Martens)
Subject: Re: M-G: N.Korea-demand.


Laim wrote the below on 26.11,

and just a couple of brief comments:

North Korea is hardly in reality "communist", i.e.
socialist, but is under a kind of revisionist rule.

And as for "cold war" - your question, Liam -, this
term is being used as meaning two quite different
things, by the bourgeois media today:

1) The conflict in the 1950s, approximately, between
the "capitalist world" led by the USA, and the then
existing bloc of socialist states, led (more or less)
by the Soviet Union. - In the 1960s, *this* "cold war"
*ended*, since capitalism had ben restored in the SU.

2) That quite different conflict, from the 1970s on,
which existed betewwn *the two reactionary superpowers*,
the USA and the Soviet Union, now a social-imperialist
state. *That* "cold war" obviously ended with the demise
of social-imperialism (in its then form) in 1991.

For Marxists, it's absolutely necessary to see the
big difference between these two things. The reactionaries
of course want people *not* to see it. They want people
to think that socialism, on the one hand, and revisionism
and social-imperialism, on the other, are "one and the
same". And a lot of phony"Marxists" including Trotskyites
etc are *helping* them in painting out precisely
such a false picture.

As for "cold war" USA-N. Korea - well, the whole
term is really just misleading in the first place.

There is a conflict of course, in which N. Korea at
least to a certain extent is in the right: The USA
wants to tell that country what to do. But the
regime there is no good either.

Rolf M.   


>> 11/25/97 21:20 N.Korea Reiterates Demand for US Troops to withdraw
>> from the South SEOUL. Communist North Korea Wednesday reiterated its
>> demand that US troops withdraw from South Korea, calling it
>> essential for an improvement in relations between Washington and
>> Pyongyang. "In order to develop the contacts and dialogues into ones
>>  for dispelling mistrust and misunderstanding between the two
>> countries and improving bilateral relations, above all, the US
>> forces must get out of South Korea," it said. The United States has
>> 37,000 troops stationed in South Korea under the flag of the United
>> Nations. North Korea said US forces in the South are to blame for "a
>>  tense situation in which war may break out any moment." Officials
>> from the Stalinist state are scheduled to meet U.S. diplomats in
>> Washington Wednesday to discuss bilateral issues, such as the return
>>  of remains of US soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War.{AFP/FRANCE}
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>               Does the USA see Korea as the last front in the cold war?
>               Are they hanging on for So.Korea?Not likely.
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