Revolutionary Voice

Ironic, really; South Korea’s FM becomes Secretary General of the UN, North Korea’s FM dies.

Communism IS democratic, that’s one of the underlying points. You’re quite correct in making the distinction from the Stalinist and Maoist ideas of Communism and the new, democratic kind that we sponsor. The idea is to create equality and the purest form of direct democracy possible.

We don’t really like dictators.

That’s exactly it. Marxism basically puts all property into the hands of the people, not just individuals, and the economy is run by the State, WHICH IS RUN BY THE WORKERS. Not by a small Party clique, but the WORKERS, the PEOPLE. Not through a system of bourguoise parliamentary democracy, where every few years you vote for someone you’ve probably never met to go somewhere you’ve probably never been and then expect them to make good decisions for you, but thru a system of direct democracy, through soviets/workers councils. The members of the local council choose which of them will represent them at the sort of congress of councils, and can vote to withdraw their representative and send a different one at any time. That’s real democracy. And with the state running the economy, it can make sure theres always enough jobs to go around, and that goods and products are distributed evenly where they are needed, not thru an unfair system of “you pay, you get”. People are paid according to ther actual value to society, how much their particualar skills are needed and how useful to society as a whole they are, not thru some capitalistic notion of “supply and demand”. This is not to say that the state is in control of everything, that’s where Stalinism appears, in your individual private lives you can do whatever you want, so long as it doesn’t harm others (eg murder, obviously). And everyone isn’t 100% equal in pay and accumen, thats unrealistic and foolish. But the gap between richest and poorest is decreased drastically, so that noone has, say, 10 times more wealth than the people with the least in society (who will have enough, anyway). And people won’t just laze around sponging off the state, either, they will present what skills they have, and be given a job according to that. If you don’t contribute to society, you can’t reap its benefits. You wont starve, but you sure wont live in luxury. The only excuse for not working, and contributing to society, is disability or sickness. From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.