The Korean War

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No (Anti-Imperialist)

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No (Anti-Imperialist)

So only communists can be imperialists?

Yes

Imperialist powers are those advanced industrial democracies in which capitalist development has moved beyond the competitive stage into the monopolistic stage. The degenerated workers' state of the 20th Century (USSR) and its deformed satellites and allies (PRC, DPRK, etc) could not be imperialist in the same sense by virtue of not being internally guided by capitalist social relations.

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Of course.

Does anyone in the "no" column have an actual argument as to how the world would be a better place had the DPRK taken over South Korea entirely in 1950?

The DPRK almost certainly wouldn't have developed into hereditary dictatorship had it been just a little less isolated from the rest of the world.

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No, but it certainly would have helped. Most of the DPRK's issues are a combination of bad leadership, the influence of Stalin and Mao on its internal political life, and the degeneration of the international socialist movement. It was more or less doomed from the start, given the lack of revolution in any of the advanced industrial democracies in the period in which it existed.