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Does South Korea have any significant vanguard party right now? Have the workers developed class consciousness?
I don’t think South Korea has anything to worry about in the short to medium term, because I can’t see North Korea making the mistake of rolling tanks into a country where the masses aren’t ready to welcome them.
The leader is very unpopular, his approval rating is currently 20% approval, 71% disapproval according to Morning Consult, reaching lows of 18% approval, 75% disapproval.
Also there have been strikes against neoliberalism, US robbing the country, anti-war protests and getting the president to resign. Ryomyong.com covers resistance to him. http://ryomyong.com/index.php?page=south
As for a SK communist party, there's http://pdp21.kr/ but it's small, there's also Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front which is an underground DPRK org in SK.
For reasons relating to South Korean Law, there are no communist parties in South Korea. Any political party in the south should not be colloquially called a communist party.
The People's Democracy Party of South Korea for example calls itself a progressive party that calls for pacifism, increased national autonomy from American interference, women's rights and liberation, and a more democratic government that better represents the hard-working citizens and agricultural specialists of South Korea.
So let us be respectful of the PDP and South Korea's laws by not calling any progressive party a communist party. Because that would be illegal.
It signs solidnet.org statements.
Those are all ML parties:
Worker's Party of Korea in the DPRK
Workers party of Bangladesh
Workers party of Belgium
Russian Communist WP
Workers party Ireland
Still not a communist party.
It participates in the WAP as well which only has Marxist-Leninist parties.
obviously not because it contains Marxist-Leninist parties, and one progressive party.
it's 100% communist internally
They quite openly declare they are not communist internally or externally, because communists are illegal in Korea.
They call themselves "communalist" ;) ;) and reject social democracy http://pdp21.kr/?p=116863
Literally describing the transition of humanity from primitive communism to communism with a lot of winking.
Worth noting that the British SDP describe themselves as "communitarians" too, and they suck ass.
They aren't even leftist though
Were I to discuss the party in the future, I'd follow your suggestion regardless, but are the words of anglophones on the internet really what is keeping the occupation government from killing the PDP?
This is more to help keep unnecessary active awareness of non-state actors away from our work whenever members of the PDP travel abroad, in addition to avoid the stigmatization that comes with Koreans being communists in a world where the DPRK exists as one of the most propagandized AES states on earth.
Imagine being a Korean, and when telling someone about your ethnicity they without fail in the first sentence ask "North Korean or South Korean?" or some variant along those lines. Other than that being a part of my and many korean-american's lived experiences, it serves as a constant reminder that Communist Korea exists as a constant in the minds of nearly everyone in the West. It does pay to be careful sometimes lol.
Thank you for the explanation, that makes sense.
Does Korea have their own "Vietcong"? By "Vietcong", I meant the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam that was extremely popular with the South Vietnamese populace, especially in the countryside.
Without a "Vietcong", I can't imagine any way that DPRK is going to unify Korea.
The DPRK is popular in the ROK, but it’s hard for me to see North or South Koreans supporting another Korean War. Most South Koreans, in my experience (lived there for years and married one as an ESL teacher) view Japan, the USA, and (sadly) China as the enemy.
It is? Does the average person see through the propaganda?