There would be nothing stopping a literal Nazi from making the same arguments to justify sacrificing people they don’t like to the meat grinder of fascism.
Actually, there is, because under the Juche philosophy the characteristic human traits -- independence, creativity, consciousness -- are held to be social in origin, not individual. There is no ubermensch in Juche, because there is no individual who possesses his or her "superior" characteristics innately and individually.
Yeah, no, this is just weird colonial-settler thinking but applied to humans instead of specifically white people.
Nobody really ever changes their minds in this sort of debate, but -- don't you think it's a little suspect that you arrived back, by a sort of loop, at the Cleanest Race position on the DPRK and its official ideology?
I'm willing to listen to environmentalist arguments for veganism. Likewise, to people who (like monks in certain religious traditions) embrace veganism or vegetarianism as a kind of spiritual practice.
What I don't have time for is the concept that human beings need to stop seeing themselves as superior to other animals. It reeks of muddled thinkers like Count Leo Tolstoy. More importantly, it goes against the basic principal of Juche, that humanity, as "the most precious thing in the material universe," "is the master of all things and decides all things." I am all for humane treatment of animals, but the needs of humanity come first.
Finally, an actual Marxist analysis of the situation. So many of the other comments here sound, unfortunately, like something you'd find on liberal reddit under a post about "green lifestyles."
Man, that article on Kantorovich is fascinating -- imagine the possibilities. I wonder if this will be remembered as the century in which computing in socialist countries really pulls ahead. (Imagine future historians saying of the American and western European economies that "they failed because they were unable to adequately adapt to the computer revolution").
One result could be that in ten years China's internet will still be... the internet, with all the strengths and shortcomings that entails. Meanwhile the internet in western countries will have devolved into an increasingly unusable and useless mess of AI-generated content. Like Quora, but everywhere and worse.
So I've noticed the propaganda about China has shifted over the past ten years. It used to be "China is a hyper-capitalist hellhole where everyone works for 2 cents an hour and you need a gas mask to breathe." Now it's "Yeah, China is fixing their problems, they're building ultramodern infrastructure and unrolling impressive social programs, BUT IT ALL COMES AT A COST."
Or the world's biggest manufacturing base, world's largest economy by PPP, no recession in over 40 years, 90% homeownership rate, elimination of absolute poverty, world leader in green technology, leader in automation technology, etc., etc...
So there was a massacre by the PLA, it just didn’t happen in the square itself.
Current research by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation suggests that the massacre occured in the same place Sadaam Hussein would later store his nonexistant WMDs.
Thanks for this.