FWIW, the system in Norkland has little to do with Communism other than in name.
I mean, really, hereditary miracle-working God-Kings? What’s Marxist about that?
What it does resemble a great deal is 2000 years of Korean history, where hereditary God-Kings ruled an oppressed peasantry, and where winning factions wiped out the losing factions of officials and all their extended families. Some of the old Korean purges took out tens of thousands of people.
>I mean, really, hereditary miracle-working God-Kings? What’s Marxist about that?
IMO, it’s like a cult of personality such as the ones based around Enver Hoxha of Albania, Ceaucescu of Romania, or Mao of China, but kicked up a few BIG notches. I felt that the ideology of North Korea is basically a combination of Communism, Korean ultranationalism, and the old Korean traits that you mentioned.