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  • It doesn’t, sorta? Jong-un has an older brother who is not in politics. Jong-un was selected because he formulated a state-building ideology around how his grandfather and father operated the state and their wins and misses, anyone could have done that but he was the one who did the work and became leader of the party. As I understand Jong-un was also the leader for the nuclear program as an officer in the military and this has basically earned him immense respect in the DPRK.

    Jong-un is the leader of the worker’s party and the leader of the military, he’s actually serving two functions that could be occupied by different people, both are appointed positions though iirc leader of the military (president) has to also be elected on in a confidence vote with the masses.

    Jong-un is not the leader of the legislative body, that role is selected by the legislative body (which is elected locally like a congress). The current VP of state (2nd in line) is also the appointed chair of the legislature. The legislature is the highest organ of state, though the president is the highest ranking individual.

    This is not dissimilar to how other ML states have been run. It’s often that the next leader is the most advanced Communist (whether that’s theoretically or organizationally though you need both). Deng was educated and shaped into the successor of Mao by Mao himself. Lenin had also trained Stalin among others. Xi similarly was such an advanced theoretician and organizer that he also earned his way to the top. It’s not surprising that Il-sung and Jong-il had both trained their children to be advanced communists, though it’s clear that not all of their kids wanted and worked to become leaders. So I’d say it’s mostly coincidence, the “fixed” aspects are being the child of the leader you are being raised by the most advanced Communist in the nation, that’s certainly an educational advantage, still Jong-un’s older brother is apparently just a random musician (according to an exiled statesman).




  • They all exist btw, very few communities have been killed to extinction, many groups are mergers of survivors.

    There are still Taino in Cuba and Haiti.

    “Latin Culture” isn’t really a real thing either, those are settler cultures and most of the stocking of whiteness in those countries are recent (circa 1900) immigrants from central Europe, same as the US/CA and “Anglo culture”.

    Latin and Anglo culture are going to be mostly dismantled where they are not useful (as current common languages).

    The Indigenous populations in South America in particular are very large, the settler populations have been, up until very recently with cow farming, concentrated heavily in metro centers. Many times they are outnumbered.

    Land Back first and foremost, the settler cities will have to accommodate into a society built around Indigenous sovereignty. (Accomodate is used here similarly to biology. Intrinsic traits vs Accomodative traits, i.e. if a dog has a small snout, the teeth and jaw stay small to accommodate the size of the snout)



  • The market of ideas is not the battleground of Imperialism. The US struggle against the PRC over Bytedance is the US Bourg trying to enforce the International Rule that large corporations outside of the US are not allowed to exist outside of the public exchange. Americans need to be able to buy it up, whenever they want. This is also how the US exerts national domination over the Bourgeoisie of other nations. They can only invest in certain things on the continent, like real estate (which there are talks of banning Chinese nationals from owning land), and tech companies (inclusive of entertainment infrastructure), to keep the bubbles in both growing. They store their wealth in the US, under restrictions, so the US can remain liquid and clip coupons.

    This is similarly why some European big whigs are calling for liberalization of pensions so they can be spent on militarism, which as we know from books like Palo Alto, the STEM sector in the Imperialist nations and militarism are two sides of the same process. Imperialism is Scientific Capitalism. 401k funds are also workers giving their wages straight to International Capitalism without going through the government.


  • Sure, but this is an excuse and a diversion. So are the anti-Comm and Sinophobic excuses. The reason why TikTok is facing an attempted force buyout is because the US-led Bourgeoisie wants to bring Bytedance into the stock market for the biggest IPO in history.

    Something that the CPC blocked from happening in 2021:

    US based firms like Blackrock have huge stakes in private Bytedance, they want to force an IPO so they can make dozens of billions at least. The American employees who own significant private stock also stand to benefit from a force takeover of Bytedance. The Tech Industrialists in California are in a win-win if the state is to be weaponized as well, TikTok goes public and they buy pieces of it up or TikTok is banned and their software cartel holds firm.

    Remember which banks collapsed last year? The ones that deal with startup-to-IPO schemes? TikTok is the dream company for the IPO industry that is US Tech and California banking.



  • Brody argues that, despite the substantive public investment, disclosing too many details about the city’s dealings with a developer could jeopardize the city’s ability to make deals with private businesses in the future.

    “We’re looking at developers’ bank accounts,” he noted. “This allowed Mr. Paterakis to finance the project without revealing confidential information,” he said.

    Still, Brody maintains the city had to assist Paterakis to mitigate the difficulties of building close to the water. Among the challenges he cited was the construction of a slurry wall to support bulkheads that now anchor the Four Seasons Hotel.

    This is basically, the whole basis of Bourgeois Dictatorship.

    Remember what else the state is doing to accelerate private interests: https://therealnews.com/baltimores-downward-spiral-of-poverty-disinvestment-and-over-policing

    This type of “investment” is constantly occurring, it’s these cities trying to become “global cities”: settler outposts to attract the international bourgeoisie as a place to spend their blood money. Where do their “tourists” get their money? Exploiting their home countries through collaborating with Imperialism. These developments’ profit streams are through Gulf Oil money, Post-Soviet resources, and East Asian manufacturing giants, super exploited migrant labor, and African and American Indigenous semi-peasant exploitation. This is what “slum clearing” entails, make room for the bourgs. This is how all of the famous urban neighborhoods of Europe that all of these settler-cities aim to model were also made. US Imperialism is crystallizing itself into the built environment of the of the US and Canada.