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> third-world living conditions [...] I know that the phrase has gained an orthogonal meaning since the cold war, but if we use the original one it's funny to
by avar 3y ago
> third-world living conditions [...]
I know that the phrase has gained an orthogonal meaning since the cold war, but if we use the original one it's funny to call what's arguably the only remaining second-world country "third-world".
- snovymgodym 3y agoI mean if we're going by the original definitions, I think Laos, Vietnam, and Cuba are also still second-world though none of them are bizarrely neo-Stalinist the way North Korea is.
- rightbyte 3y agoAre they really Stalinists? I would have guess Maoists, but then again, I wouldn't know the difference.
- fein 3y agoNorth Korea is Juche.
- BetaDeltaAlpha 3y agoNorth Korea was generally more aligned with the USSR than the PRC. Kim Il Sung and Mao were on the way up at the same time, and were both students of Lenin and Stalin.