Better than I thought it would turn out!

Engineers are overwhelmingly proletarian, and all classes produce their own intellectuals, meaning there are bourgeois scholars and proletarian scholars.

This is why a study of art is key for any revolutionary, we can’t have our symbols looking lame

Now. All those games still exist, and are easier than ever to emulate if you wish. Good new games are coming out, and there’s simply no chance that you’ve exhausted all of the possible good games to play.

Can’t believe I missed that in the title, yea, peasantry aren’t proletarian but instead they are their own class.

Neither does the hammer for the average industrial worker, but both are symbolic.

Always thought the GDR and WPK had awesome h&s variations!

The same, honestly. These jobs never went away, they were just shifted out of the imperial core to the periphery. It’s a symbol of two classes, the proletariat and the peasantry. While the peasantry has been mostly phased out, its symbol remains.

I’m certainly not an “expert,” but it does appear that way, yes. The global south is rising in development, which is breaking down the system of super-exploitation the west has relied on. Without a strong industrial base, austerity is forced, which breeds discontent. Something is always rising, and something is always dying away. Dialectics at work.

Ah, gotcha. They are employing more draconian measures as they are forced into austerity politics by imperialist decay, because they need to exert a tighter grip on a population that does not want austerity. This, of course, breeds more resistance, as you pointed out.

What do you mean? The state acts depending on the circumstances it finds itself in, and the stage of class struggle. States prohibit more as class struggle heightens and from external and internal pressures, that’s what drives it.

No? Anti-capitalism and anti-liberalism isn’t based in dehumanization, but liberation. Opposing existing socialism usually relies on chauvanistic viewpoints eliminating any capacity for agency and self-determination in these democratically run countries by reducing them to “dictatorships,” as you say. Honest evaluation of socialism reveals comprehensive democratic structures, so to obfuscate that anti-communists rely on narratives like “brainwashing” to explain away popular support.

Your comments aren’t anti-dictatorship or anti-genocide at all, they’re just naked opposition to communists. That’s it. There’s no nuanced critique, just repeated bad-faith behavior like accusing users of having alts, or your own sexual harassment of other users.

Anti-communism is overwhelmingly tied to chauvanism, western exceptionalism, and dehumanization of the global south, so it’s tied in with “no xenophobia.”

Further, no, I am not guilty of “all of those things.” Mind being more specific? If you mean the accusations of racism, it’s because I called out the head moderator of the playstation community on Lemmy.zip for being a white supremacist, which you can read about here.

No idea, I didn’t ban you, but rule 1 is used in general for things like sexual harassment and dogmatic anti-communism.

The overwhelmimg majority of your comments seems to be complaining about communists, accusing others of being alts, or sexual harassment, so I doubt it was unintentional.

Yep, excellent write-up! Korea, in general, has not had a “normal” year of development for well over a century and a half. From colonization to war to the present split, Korea’s conditions have been extremely tumultuous. Throughout all of it, though, has been a strong history of radicalism and resistance. Japan had a much more “normal” course of development, as it gained a head-start on industrialization and maintained it with colonization of the surrounding areas.

Yep! Lots of quirky bits like that that make sense when analyzing the development of the ROK.

The biggest eye-opener seems to be telling people that Sansung sells insurance, has luxury hotels like the Silla, etc. The ROK is a bit more “naked” in that sense, contradictions are more out in the open. Watching the Samsung Lions play the Lotte Giants, instead of the Yankees against the Dodgers, for example, puts it up in your face a bit more. However, you’re absolutely right that the US’ own megacorps are the ones at the top, and it isn’t just “big tech.”

Yep, though Japan’s own imperial history gives it a qualitatively different character to the ROK, which has largely been the history of a colonized country turned imperial vassal. The ROK still has domestic mass manufacturing, though it largely keeps it through suppressing wages. At least, that’s my present understanding. The ROK still has extreme anti-communism, but a stronger union movement, which of course isn’t sufficient but does signify a more millitant working class. The ROK in general is a pot constantly on the verge of boiling over, including in the social sphere with rising feminist movements.

Yep! I tend to do that more when talking about 재벌 IRL, as for many Statesians they don’t really know about them at all. One thing they all seem to understand immediately is that Samsung, LG, Hyundai, etc. are massive in the ROK and that the families at the top are thus the real rulers of the ROK. Also serves as a nice springboard to talk about where they came from, ie collaborators with the US and former Japanese colonialist government.