It's so disappointing how ACP chuds are some the most openly supportive of the DPRK. It's like NazBols continuously latch onto it for some reason.

I first got into socialism through the DPRK. I got into the DPRK through Boy Boy's video "We Went to North Korea to get a Haircut" The video made me realize exactly what the US is all about, what it has done, and what it continues to do. As an American, you understand that the US has done bad stuff, but you never actually think about it in terms of the US being the pure evil it actually is.

And from there I really branched out and got where I am today. I went from being a pseudo-conservative that was indoctrinated by SJW videos and other bullshit, to a self-described "centrist" liberal, and finally into a communist. I don't think I ever actually believed in that bigotry shit; I've always been socially intelligent and empathetic. Liberalism was understanding things were bad, but not having the proper analysis viewpoint on the issues to think of actual solutions or change.

Although I was into socialism for around a year, the true death of my liberalism was the 2024 election. I was of course rooting for Kamala, and was upset she didn't win and that he'd be back, but, I just sort of realized that it was all a sham and, Kamala or Trump, the neoliberal system would be maintained.

I do think that's an important part to a potentially successful socialist experiment: having a "capitalist," or industrialization, phase. Marx wrote about the socialist revolution beginning in an industrialized, capitalist(?) country like Germany, the UK, or the US because these people were at the heart of the capitalist, imperialist core and had felt the exploitation.

But, it seems that socialism has mainly arisen within countries that were exploited by those industrialized, capitalist countries through colonialism. I think it's because the people in the imperial-capitalist nations are just comfortable enough to not revolt; while the people being exploited through colonialism live through hell each waking moment. Sure, work's hard and you don't own the means of production, but, you have a house you can go home and relax in. The people in those colonial countries don't have any of that, making the revolution almost inevitable.

I think that quote perfectly sums things up.

Another thing, though. The word socialist is casually used to refer to countries with socialist intent who are working towards it, similar to communist, but socialism literally means a state where the proletariat dictate the means of production and the political system. Does that truly create multiple definitions of the word? To my knowledge, there hasn't been a state that has met the literary definition, same with communism, but we still use it.

Do anti-Deng people dislike him for the reason of not building a literal socialist state, or do they genuinely think that he was trying to move China away from even working towards it? From everything I've seen, Deng was a Marxist.

There's so many libs that come in. Like, why comment on a sub you disagree with?

I also saw that your Reddit account got suspended, what happened. If you are the same person from there.

I posted it on TankieTube and sent the link here, hopefully it works

Okay, I posted it there then sent it here. That's a pretty interesting site. I've been looking into ways to disconnect from typical methods of internet use like that.

Video on TankieTube because it wouldn't load here https://tankie.tube/w/ahYA1an7AXBCr8yTKkNAYk