From: Michael Hoover <hoov-AT-fn3.freenet.tlh.fl.us>
Subject: Re: M-I: Actually Existing Stalinism
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 97 23:28:54 18000


> I am wondering if any of the fans of the Stalin Society or of the old boy 
> himself, have any comments on the latest development coming out of the 
> last Actually Existing Stalinist regime on the face of the earth.  I am 
> talking about the DPRK, of course, which none of our wonderful Stalinists 
> has been able to show is not a Stalinist regime.
> This development is the defection to South Korea of its top ideologue and 
> Secretariant member, Hwang Jang Yop, the man who taught Marxism-Leninism 
> to Kim Jong Il, and has held numerous other highly ranked positions.  The 
> DPRK organs proclaim him to have been "kidnapped," of course, which is not 
> out of the question.  But his reported statement has to do with a state 
> that has starvation not being a workers' and farmers' utopia.  Well?
> Barkley Rosser

I'm not a fan of the Stalin Society, Stalin, Kim Jong Il, or North
Korea...but I wonder how much two years of flooding has contributed to
the country's present food shortage...Michael


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