Comments on: The US and North Korean Governments: What Difference?

By: Michael Bindner

Michael Bindner — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:52:43 +0000

I wonder who is “behind the throne” in North Korea. The current Great Leader is such a loon that you know someone is holding his chains. No one can be that crazy and stay in control unless someone else is finding it useful to let him. Someone is pulling the strings behind the scenes and would find it inconvenient to be the public face. Eventually, like the young Dr. Asad in Syria, a rational ruler will come to the fore and may even succeed in clipping the wings of the puppet masters. Asad has not done this yet with the Baathists, although the day may come when it happens. Look at what happened to Cheney when Bush started paying attention (when the lawyers in the DOJ got fed up with Cheney and Addington).

I don’t worry too much about Korea. The Supreme Leader is not really that much in control. Time will call the bluff on the cabal that is really in charge and a more rational situation will emerge.

By: xveganx

xveganx — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:37:28 +0000

Excellent point Mr Knight.

Mr Bindner:

This was/is my biggest reservation about market anarchism, and, I would presume that one of the biggest problems social anarchists have with market/individualist anarchists is that Social@s worry Market@s don’t understand the reality of the point you just made. And/or that M@s are only concerned with state power and no other.

I think it might fare well for M@s to bring this point up often. (That is if they don’t already and I’ve just missed it)

By: littlehorn

littlehorn — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:29:15 +0000

Hi. Actually, I believe it was France that provided Israel with its nuclear technology. Please do check this though.

By: Michael Bindner

Michael Bindner — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:49:34 +0000

Free markets would be nice. We don’t have these here.

The question is not whether to change but how (both in terms of what to change to and how to go about it).

Simply ending government and allowing Employers to enact the same kind of hegemony the government does (or rather, continuing to allow them to do so, but this time unchecked), does not sit well with me. A free market means a free market in all aspects – including a free market for positions and wages within a firm. If ending government brings about a defacto Monopsony for jobs and wages, that is not a free market – and you will see worse tyranny from employers than you ever saw from the United States.