A dubious nomination process for political officials
Together, this doesn’t give me confidence that the Proletariat has seized power, but instead there has emerged some kind of Platonic state with a permanent political class.
There’s no such thing as a “political class,” and you’re still repeating the Bordigist error of using mere fears based on your own unfamiliarity to oppose a proletarian state. Class is not merely a sub-category, it’s specifically related to production and distribution. All of what you said is either sensible given the DPRK’s existence as a country in siege, or is a misunderstanding on your own part, a misunderstanding that can be alleviated through study.
As I already explained, class is not merely a sub-category, it’s specifically related to production and distribution. The DPRK’s economy is overwhelmingly publicly owned, there’s nearly no private ownership. Administration is not a class by itself, but a subset of a larger class, in this case the proletariat. Government employees have the same relations to production and distribution as other workers, just with different responsibilities in the production chain.
Classless society will still have administration and management, as is necessary for large-scale production and distribution. This future communism will also be stateless, as administration is not the same as a state.
Whether a political class exists in North Korea aside, do you really not think such a class could exist? Of course administrators don’t inherently have outsized power, given proper restraints. But to claim that administrative authority cannot be abused contradicts common sense.
Positions can be abused. A mechanic can loosen bolts and cause mass destruction. A nurse can administer lethal dosages of medicine. These are not all distinct classes, though, but subsections of broader classes, that class typically being the proletariat. Classes have similar class interests, this is what binds them as a class, administrators in socialism also benefit from continued collectivization and improvements in production and distribution. Only the proletariat as a ruling class truly can abolish class as such, as their shared interests are the collectivization of production and distribution. This is Marxism.
Not necessarily, a mechanic could make some truly disastrous abuses at a nuclear power plant. However, you’re still running into the Bordigist error of fearing the potential for problems over presenting a better solution, and using that potential as a reason to not support the real.
I don’t think you’ve established that beyond your current belief that universal conscription during war time is equivalent to slavery.
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Together, this doesn’t give me confidence that the Proletariat has seized power, but instead there has emerged some kind of Platonic state with a permanent political class.
There’s no such thing as a “political class,” and you’re still repeating the Bordigist error of using mere fears based on your own unfamiliarity to oppose a proletarian state. Class is not merely a sub-category, it’s specifically related to production and distribution. All of what you said is either sensible given the DPRK’s existence as a country in siege, or is a misunderstanding on your own part, a misunderstanding that can be alleviated through study.
Do you have a reason to claim that there is no such thing as a political class?
As I already explained, class is not merely a sub-category, it’s specifically related to production and distribution. The DPRK’s economy is overwhelmingly publicly owned, there’s nearly no private ownership. Administration is not a class by itself, but a subset of a larger class, in this case the proletariat. Government employees have the same relations to production and distribution as other workers, just with different responsibilities in the production chain.
Classless society will still have administration and management, as is necessary for large-scale production and distribution. This future communism will also be stateless, as administration is not the same as a state.
Whether a political class exists in North Korea aside, do you really not think such a class could exist? Of course administrators don’t inherently have outsized power, given proper restraints. But to claim that administrative authority cannot be abused contradicts common sense.
Positions can be abused. A mechanic can loosen bolts and cause mass destruction. A nurse can administer lethal dosages of medicine. These are not all distinct classes, though, but subsections of broader classes, that class typically being the proletariat. Classes have similar class interests, this is what binds them as a class, administrators in socialism also benefit from continued collectivization and improvements in production and distribution. Only the proletariat as a ruling class truly can abolish class as such, as their shared interests are the collectivization of production and distribution. This is Marxism.
Do you acknowledge at the very least that the potential for abuse in these positions is less than the position of administrator?
Not necessarily, a mechanic could make some truly disastrous abuses at a nuclear power plant. However, you’re still running into the Bordigist error of fearing the potential for problems over presenting a better solution, and using that potential as a reason to not support the real.