The Korean War

[RFayette]

An unprovoked invasion of a small country by North Korea, China and the USSR was not imperialist, but the multinational force under UN auspices defending them was?  Give me a break, that's insanity.  

Just curious, would you communists rather live in North Korea or South Korea right now?  

Because, it's hypocritical to want to consign other people to a life of unending misery and not want that life for yourself.

Indeed.  I would have supported the Korean War with hindsight, for sure.

I feel like Communists resort to a lot of special pleading.  For example, North Korea doesn't count as Communist because "Communism is stateless" ........ditto with imperialism and a lot of other terms.  It smacks of the stuff creationists use to disprove evolution by using a special definition of "science."

[RFayette]

An unprovoked invasion of a small country by North Korea, China and the USSR was not imperialist, but the multinational force under UN auspices defending them was?  Give me a break, that's insanity.  

Just curious, would you communists rather live in North Korea or South Korea right now?  

Because, it's hypocritical to want to consign other people to a life of unending misery and not want that life for yourself.

Indeed.  I would have supported the Korean War with hindsight, for sure.

I feel like Communists resort to a lot of special pleading.  For example, North Korea doesn't count as Communist because "Communism is stateless" ........ditto with imperialism and a lot of other terms.  It smacks of the stuff creationists use to disprove evolution by using a special definition of "science."

Well North Korea explicitly removed any mentions of Marxism from their constitution, so I think it's fair enough to say the DPRK doesn't really count. Also you know the whole heridatary monarchy in all but name thing amd the quasi-feudalism is rather, err, non-communistic.

Yes, but North Koreans in their daily lives watch propaganda praising socialism and using Marxist language.  I agree that the full theoretical ideals of Communism haven't been realized, but it still is an example of a government instituted based on Communism existing today.