Monday, October 5, 2009

Terminological inexactitude

By way of One Free Korea, I learn of a Wall Street Journal piece that argues persuasively that, strictly speaking, I have been wrong to refer to the north Koreans as "commies" all these years.

3 comments:

Don said...

Did you notice that, despite the author's conclusion that N. Korea is a national-socialist country, he follows that conclusion immediately with the false assertion that national-socialism is a "right-wing" ideology? Just another kool-aid drinker, I suppose...

Drang said...

I've gotten so used to it I don't always catch it when I see it.

NotClauswitz said...

Heh - I caught that too! National Socialism is Leftist collectivism on the local and racial scale.