Originally posted by EarthUnificationFrontier
Despite his absolute totalitarian, terror reign authority over the people, on a whole I see North Korea under his leadership to be an effective
conterweight, such as Cuba, China, Russia, to the American globalisation and domination.
Strong statement!
Although, I believe I see your point of perspective, I must disgress to the word 'leadership'. Yes, he is the dictator and demagog, that direct that
sealed off 'colony', aka North Korea. In that sense he is a leader, but he is surely not being, a democratic leader. I believe, idealistically, that
a 'globalization' and a 'domination' should be done in a way to adhere to human-rights equality.
So far, neither of these countries has followed this guideline 'correctly'. The USA has been the 'best' choice to follow, so far. Still, the USA
is not perfect either. They have, often enough, had a serious problem in understanding that social-democracy does NOT automatically equal
communism.
Every governing system we know so far basically suck, mainly due to corruption, but also in the lack of 'fluidity' in the existing systems. Our
leaders tend to stick to one policy/ideology, without reasoning too other systems functionalities. I am looking for the balance in a political system.
In everything known to man, there is a need of balance. In a country w/o any right-wing organizations, the country will end up like the DPRK. Any
country without any left-wing organizations will end up like USA. Imho, neither of these countries (administrations/governments!) are liked by me
anymore.
Russia is in a very interesting state. From being a 'China', they have turned on their heels to try to become westernized. The question is only, Do
'they' do it out of human-rights, or is it hard cold cash that drives them? My imagination drives me to believe it is VERY easy to become filthy
rich, yet still very hard, to get filthy rich. -because of the lack of proper laws. No national rules? Go ahead and break international laws to get
stinking rich within your own country. How? Gun-running, drug-running, slavery etc. That is what happens in Russia, and almost all the other
post-soviet countries. And I believe that is the main difference between Russia and USA, as of today. Putin just doesn't have the same control on his
productions, as they did in the old Sovietunion, and as they do in China and North Korea today. I am not surprised if Russia one day will become a
right-winged country. It will only take time to control the low-level corruption that survived the communist era (
-impossible task?). Even
China has realized, that it is easier to gain more wealth in a 'softer' country, than a communistic one. -As long as You only control the lawmaking!
[edit on 6-3-2006 by Ulvetann]
