> because they've somehow become a hereditary Communist dictatorship Shouldn't we just call it a Monarchy then? The "communism" in DPRK is just some red paint

> because they've somehow become a hereditary Communist dictatorship Shouldn't we just call it a Monarchy then? The "communism" in DPRK is just some red paint applied on top of a religious monarchy, in which the Kim family is blessed by the gods to be the leaders of the people. This is as far from the ideal of communism as you can get. Or is the battle for preserving the original meaning of the word as the ideal of the workers collectively owning the means of production and directly profiting from them, rather than making one person on top exhuberantly rich, now completely lost?