They both have a bit in common. They’re both communist Asian states that the US went to war with during the Cold War and did not win. But the messaging regarding the two states is a lot different. DPRK is treated like the worst dictatorship ever, that kills you and your family for even thinking that the Kims are less than gods, whilst also starving. But Vietnam, they say… nothing.
Why isn’t Vietnam demonized like DPRK?
The us promoted Trotskyism and Maoism during the cold war as alternatives to “classical” ML thought, that should tell you how “docile” the empire views it. Many Maoists remain very based good comrades, but as a whole they havent been successful in a while (see India, Nepal & Philippines).
Oooo can you think of any articles or documents about the Maoist psyop stuff? That’s very interesting.
To push back a bit for funsies, I wonder how many explicitly Marxist-Leninist parties have succeeded in revolution since the 70s? I think thats when “Maoism” in name first started to take shape, right? Pretty sure Vietnam and Laos were post-1970, and the Zapatistas but I think their ideological line is explicitly indigenous even if inspired partly by communism/anarchism. Do Venezuela and Bolivia count? I guess my point is, while they havent been successful in deposing their current governments, the ideology is much newer than ML, and some of the currently existing parties are newer still, having been established in the early and mid 2000’s, some are perhaps even newer. Like I think the Nepalese Maoist party was formed in 2012. Just think those things are important to consider as well as maybe how much aid and influence the US might provide some of those countries
Not a lot because the main ML country became revisionist and then fell which caused ML to be a dead branch essentially. And given the few actually succeeding revolutions at all - its basically just (barely) Burkina Faso, Madagascar, Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique, Benin, Grenada, and Zimbabwe.
Through the Congress for Cultural Freedom. Also the Nouvelle Philosophie & Foucault. More here, Here, Straight from the source, From page 96 or so, may not entirely be relevant to your question, but a good poignant read entirely - also from the empire’s lips
Jk. Damn I need to look into those countries, Africa holding it down. Thanks for the links comrade, I appreciate it