I’ve never had problems with Temu. It’s good for buying little tech trinkets or clothing for cheap.

This idea of human goodness being something exceptional to the US also plays a role in USians considering themselves a morally upright “world police”.

Elementary and middle education in India is exactly the same… due to severe budget cuts public education at that level is terrible and most who can afford it settle for private schooling. It’s flipped in higher education, although with BJP neoliberalism the public schools have been raising tuition and having funding cut as well (although they are still massively cheaper than private universities).

I can’t speak for China, but in India we have a similar system where those who do well on exams gain admission into top public schools and those who don’t have to settle for a private school which isn’t as selective but more expensive. As far as I know the private schools are really just backup plans for those who can afford it and aren’t very prestigious compared to the public schools.

The communists we should be mourning are the ones of the Tudeh party which were indeed executed by the Islamic government, although I’m not sure how much of a hand Raisi had in that. He is much more known for executions of MEK, which is not a communist group and is rather a US and Israeli-backed organization which has no real ideology other than opposing the IRI.

They want Iran to join the war because that’ll force the US to come in. A regional war would shift attention away from the ongoing genocide.

That’s great to hear! 18 years ago would be in 2006, which I recall as during the recovery period for the Arduous March and a time when marketization was widespread. During your time there, were you able to visit any of the markets or understand how markets were affecting people’s lives? As a foreign student I’m guessing you mostly worked with hard currency, but did you get an understanding of peoples’ wages and relative costs of living?

Could you tell us a bit about your experience in the DPRK? I would be very interested and I’m sure many people on lemmygrad would as well.

Did you live in DPRK as a student?

Not only does the DPRK have hypersonic weapons, they have is some metrics the best hypersonic missile on earth: https://nr.reddit.com/r/EuropeanSocialists/comments/1bhpcbh/main_feature_of_the_new_cold_war/

Thanks for the clarification.

I believe pornography production and sale is illegal but consumption is not.

Although the film had a lot of influence from Koryo Tours watching it is a really good insight into DPRK’s socialist culture. Despite it being a romance movie it’s super duper conservative compared to Western romance movies, which I found pretty nice.

True, but they are one of the more oft-cited proponents of digital planning I’ve seen on Western forums.

Unfortunately a transphobe with good economics

If you want to look into actual algorithms I’m pretty sure that Cockshott himself has published papers on his proposed algorithms. Last time i read New Socialism I’m pretty sure he mentioned them by title.

My Chinese knowledge has deteriorated to the point of nothingness after 2 years so I mainly use Deepl lol

Inshallah one day lemmygrad can get this approval for real: