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Re:A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn by eli_gottlieb on Saturday January 10, 2015 @04:43AM (#8866398)
"Capitalism" and "communism" aren't operating systems that get installed on different countries but impose identical function. South Korea has a much more planned and centralized capitalism than the Anglosphere. North Korea is basically a monarchist personality cult rather than anything resembling the Soviet Union.
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Re:A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn by ahomescu1 on Sunday January 11, 2015 @03:05AM (#8869418)
> North Korea is basically a monarchist personality cult rather than anything resembling the Soviet Union.

Unlike the Soviet Union, where no personality cult of Stalin and Lenin existed. </sarcasm>

North Korea is as good an example of a totalitarian dictatorship as any Communist country (including my own).

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