I particularly liked the part where he thought Orwell made a “mockery” of his society.

Yes, if I am with you

In other words, humans are no better than cattle. As long as they simply moo in contentment, that is fine. But the minute one of the human cattle in NK decide to behave like a human, why, it’s time for re-education!

“Because you have to sacrifice your selfishness for the common good. You have to focus your objectives toward ideology, not toward your material needs. It’s the advantage of an ideological system vs. a model based only on the economy.”

Okay. The Spanish for ‘ideology’ is a direct translation [ideologia] with no loss of meaning whatsoever; this means Alejandro meant ‘ideology’, which is absolutely bizarre for one claiming to be Marxist. In the Marxist tradition, ‘ideology’ denotes a system of alienation, whereby the individual is brainwashed to reject true social reality and instead accept false consciousness ultimately determined according to the interests of a bourgeoisie class. Ironically, this is exactly what the DPRK is: an ideological state, but Alejandro clearly couldn’t mean it in this way without insulting the bastards he’s in bad with.

This just shows how outrageously far removed the DPRK is from the political philosophy it claims to embody. Crazy.

In the K-blogs, for example, look at how many people have taken up the cause of Imperial Japanese apologism, even to the point of attacking the victims in China or South Korea, and elsewhere, largely because they’ve heard their students claim too many times that “Dokdo is our land!” or some such.

Indeed, for people inclined toward that, the more people insist something’s true, the more easily convinced they are that the opposite is true. I can easily imagine that when George W. Bush referred to North Korea as part of the Axis of Evil, he was certain it was a paradise the US was trying to destroy. Read some Bruce Cumings to reinforce such a view, and boom, you’ve got a sheep named Cao.