Friday, February 11, 2005
THE HEREDITARY COMMUNIST MONARCHY
Kim Jong-Il has allegedly decided to follow in his father's footsteps and designate one of his sons as his official heir and successor. This move would confirm that that North Korea's extremely harsh- and increasingly bizarre - Stalinist regime is also de facto absolute monarchy.
While all Communist nations adopted a nomenklatura system that established a permanently priviliged " New Class" of party elite, North Korea is the only state that succeeded in establishing a family dynasty. Romania's late Communist dictator, Nicolae Ceaucescu, an admirer of North Korea's juche police state, was believed to have wanted to establish his son Nicu as a successor when his hardline regime was overthrown in 1989 and Ceaucescu was executed.
Let us hope that history repeats itself sometime soon. ¶ 9:18 PM
Kim Jong-Il has allegedly decided to follow in his father's footsteps and designate one of his sons as his official heir and successor. This move would confirm that that North Korea's extremely harsh- and increasingly bizarre - Stalinist regime is also de facto absolute monarchy.
While all Communist nations adopted a nomenklatura system that established a permanently priviliged " New Class" of party elite, North Korea is the only state that succeeded in establishing a family dynasty. Romania's late Communist dictator, Nicolae Ceaucescu, an admirer of North Korea's juche police state, was believed to have wanted to establish his son Nicu as a successor when his hardline regime was overthrown in 1989 and Ceaucescu was executed.
Let us hope that history repeats itself sometime soon. ¶ 9:18 PM
