How communist is North Korea?: From the birth to the death of Marxist ideas of human rights

This article focuses on the Marxist characteristics of North Korea in its interpretation of human rights. The author's main argument is that many Marxist features pre-existed in Korea. Complying with Marxist orthodoxy, North Korea is fundamentally hostile to the notion of human rights in capita...

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Main Author: SONG, Jiyoung
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-25752017-03-07T09:33:01Z How communist is North Korea?: From the birth to the death of Marxist ideas of human rights SONG, Jiyoung This article focuses on the Marxist characteristics of North Korea in its interpretation of human rights. The author's main argument is that many Marxist features pre-existed in Korea. Complying with Marxist orthodoxy, North Korea is fundamentally hostile to the notion of human rights in capitalist society, which existed in the pre-modern Donghak (Eastern Learning) ideology. Rights are strictly contingent upon one's class status in North Korea. However, the peasants' rebellion in pre-modern Korea was based on class consciousness against the ruling class. The supremacy of collective interests sees individual claims for human rights as selfish egoism, which was prevalent in Confucian ethics. The prioritization of subsistence rights and material welfare over civil and political rights was also the foremost important duty of the benevolent Confucian king. Finally, unlike Marx's reluctant use of the language of ‘duties’, rights are the offspring of citizens' duties in North Korean human rights discourse. 2010-12-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1319 info:doi/10.1080/09557571.2010.523821 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2575/viewcontent/HowCommunistNorthKorea_2010.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University North Korea Marxist philosophy communist societies Confucian ethics citizens Asian Studies International Relations Political Science
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Singapore
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topic North Korea
Marxist philosophy
communist societies
Confucian ethics
citizens
Asian Studies
International Relations
Political Science
spellingShingle North Korea
Marxist philosophy
communist societies
Confucian ethics
citizens
Asian Studies
International Relations
Political Science
SONG, Jiyoung
How communist is North Korea?: From the birth to the death of Marxist ideas of human rights
description This article focuses on the Marxist characteristics of North Korea in its interpretation of human rights. The author's main argument is that many Marxist features pre-existed in Korea. Complying with Marxist orthodoxy, North Korea is fundamentally hostile to the notion of human rights in capitalist society, which existed in the pre-modern Donghak (Eastern Learning) ideology. Rights are strictly contingent upon one's class status in North Korea. However, the peasants' rebellion in pre-modern Korea was based on class consciousness against the ruling class. The supremacy of collective interests sees individual claims for human rights as selfish egoism, which was prevalent in Confucian ethics. The prioritization of subsistence rights and material welfare over civil and political rights was also the foremost important duty of the benevolent Confucian king. Finally, unlike Marx's reluctant use of the language of ‘duties’, rights are the offspring of citizens' duties in North Korean human rights discourse.
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title How communist is North Korea?: From the birth to the death of Marxist ideas of human rights
title_short How communist is North Korea?: From the birth to the death of Marxist ideas of human rights
title_full How communist is North Korea?: From the birth to the death of Marxist ideas of human rights
title_fullStr How communist is North Korea?: From the birth to the death of Marxist ideas of human rights
title_full_unstemmed How communist is North Korea?: From the birth to the death of Marxist ideas of human rights
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publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2010
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