man i have been curious. i saw that you went to school for "marxist thought" and yet you are interested in bitcoin, which is the most capitalist/libertarian/laissez faire thing in existence. change of heart?
haha, no-I'm definitely not a communist. I'm actually a libertarian. But I just had tremendous interest in communist nations/societies, probably because it was so contrary to what I believed in, and the fact that I live in the US [insert US insult here]. It was East Asia I became interested in because they truly designed and conceived their own "brand" of communism. China's history is best characterized by the masses
working submitting completely for a few (under landlords and imperial rulers, in the past). Because of that, you can probably see why communism was so welcomed in Asia, and even is today as China is technically a communist nation-the masses could rise above their societal statuses to form an egalitarian society and nation. I am particularly interested in North Korea. The country is almost literally a time bomb from Cold-War Russia. No one living in the country knows about the world outside of North Korea, except for that a country called the US exists and they hate them. I believe only a society like Korea, whose history is filled with colonialism and imperialist expansion into Korea by foreigners, which knows how to submit, could today remain a communist state (thats what I want to write my PhD dissertation on).
If you want to see a documentary that
will blow your mind, watch "The Vice Guide to North Korea", all parts.
BTW, pheaonix: are you affiliated at all with UCSD?
