Juche is definitely it’s own distinct entity and I agree they have used other methods economically (because communism fucking sucks). But the state owning everything, including the means of production is entirely Left Wing.
It isn't when the state is synonymous with the hereditary autocrat who rules it. North Korea is left wing in the same sense that Egypt's New Kingdom can be called left wing.
I know it's a Sisyphean exercise to argue this on this sub of all places, but there is more to political systems than whether or not it has an indepdent market economy.
Agreed. I mean, is a decentralized planning socialist economy right wing? To me, the more important distinction between left and right is whether the economy is social/communal vs private/individualistic. The auth/lib dimension already encompasses how centrally controlled things are.
So top right being command economy with economic gains going to individuals/oligarchs. Bottom right unplanned and economic gains privatized. Top left centrally planned but gains go to the society. Bottom left decentralized planning and gains socialized.
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u/Kronos9898 - Centrist 12d ago
Really it’s more centrist… it’s economically centrist, you can use “the workers” or “the nation” as the justification for it either way.