You've been looking in the wrong direction, the dangers are coming from the right.

Yea, not anyone. Its just you who reached that conclusion so far.

But keep knocking on that door, im sure you will be proven right in one of these replies.

Oh yes, the media convinced the stupid, tabloid reading working class to vote for Brexit.

The far left campaigned for Brexit. The current Trades Union darlings such as Mick Lynch, supported Brexit. His Union, the RMT, advocated for Brexit. Left wing keyboard activists were just as rabidly pro Brexit as their right wing counterparts.

The left in Ireland has been consistently anti EU.

People Before Profit were one of the few, along with other Irish socialist parties, to campaign for Brexit.

The largest left wing party in Ireland today actively campaigned against every EU treaty.

Support for Brexit was not solely a right wing phenomenon.

The only Irish people that could legitimately be classed as refugees were people during the famine era which was 170 years ago all other waves of emigration from Ireland was caused by economic circumstances, they were economic migrants.

Today you are allowed to dispose of your passport and documentation and still enter Ireland .This is a truly ridiculous situation that no sensible person should be in favour of.

Alternatively, maybe you could try just reading what's actually written in front of you. The poster you're replying to made no such "implication" about totalitarianism being "exclusively right wing" at all. In fact, they were specifically limiting their comments to North Korea and not fascism in general or the right wing.

Any "implication" is simply one that you've dreamt up.

As for which way NK leans...whatever it is, it fails at being a Communist state by virtue of the fact that it has an extremely nationalist outlook based on race and is ruled by a familial dictatorship. All of which are an anathema to Marxist thinking. In fact, Marx would have thoroughly rejected every so called "Communist" country outright, because they usually ended up being the playthings of dictators. And, in any case, no country has ever achieved Communism and merely washed around in some form of bastardised Socialism, never getting to the point of being a Communist state. Although I would argue that Communism is practically unachievable so they were all on a hiding to nothing anyway.

@McHardcore is correct in his assertion about North Korea and it's political leanings, however, and it's borne out by the activities and the belief system of the country itself. B.R. Myers writes that North Korea leans more towards a Japanese style fascism rather than a European style Communism, or any kind of Communism for that matter. It's ideology being more akin to a right wing, race based, set of ideals rather than a classless society where the proletariat has a direct say in how the country is run. Whatever North Korea may have claimed to be in the past or indeed now, it's actuality is very different.

According to Myers...

"North Korea’s dominant ideology or worldview" is far removed "from communism, Confucianism and the show-window doctrine of Juche Thought. Far from complex, it can be summarized in a single sentence: The Korean people are too pure blooded, and therefore too virtuous, to survive in this evil world without a great parental leader."

"I need hardly point out that if such a race-based worldview is to be situated on our conventional left-right spectrum, it makes more sense to posit it on the extreme right than on the far left. Indeed, the similarity to the worldview of fascist Japan is striking. I do not, however, intend to label North Korea as fascist, a term too vague to be much use. It is enough for me to make clear that the country has always been, at the very least, ideologically closer to America’s adversaries in World War II than to communist China and Eastern Europe. This truth alone, if properly grasped, will not only help the West to understand the loyalty shown to the DPRK by its chronically impoverished citizens, but also to understand why the West’s policy of pursuing late Cold War type solutions to the nuclear problem is doomed to fail."

And he makes a pretty compelling case as to the actual political ideology that prevails in the DPRK in his book 'The Cleanest Race', in which he divides the propaganda image that North Korea likes to project, both to insiders and outsiders, and what really happens within the country.

Just wanted to draw attention to this part; "The poster you're replying to made no such "implication" about fascism being "exclusively right wing" at all. In fact, they were specifically limiting their comments to North Korea and not fascism in general or the right wing."

Are you saying that fascism isn't" exclusively right wing"?

https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095811414;jsessionid=77F170DD2A6B56AB5CEF04D4F57BB9D5

"An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization."

Your demonstrable inability to comprehend things written in front of you certainly puts a humorous spin on this statement; "Alternatively, maybe you could try just reading what's actually written in front of you."

Chortle.

I was discussing the other posters implied description of totalarianism, it's as if none of you are capable of thinking things out or proof reading your posts.

North Korea isn't communist because you don't think it fits the ideals and vision of Karl Marx? And you quote the only academic who actually believes that to be the case as evidence. Bravo.

Another snotty reply. Well done you.

Again, it needs to be pointed out to you that McHardcore said that North Korea "its a socialist economy but a fascist regime with a totalarian leader."

Nowhere is that poster saying that Totalitarianism is an exclusively right wing ideology. You misinterpreted what was said and are STILL continuing to misinterpret what was said, despite the fact that it's been clarified for you, even by the poster himself. At least be adult enough to own a simple mistake.

As for academics, yeh I think I'll go with the guy who's spent decades studying the country and the regime as opposed to some guy on web who struggles to read other people's posts. 😉

I struggle to read others posts? You literally demonstrated your own inability to understand things written in front of you just a couple of posts ago.

The poster implied something by not clarifying their position, they made a mistake that they have refused to acknowledge. I was happy to leave it alone until you waded in talking about how fascism "isn't exclusively right wing", seriously, how do you post something as ridiculous as that and even have the nerve to show up here again never mind coming back attempting to take the moral high ground?

You quoted the only academic of note who holds the opinion that North Korea doesn't adhere to proper communist ideals, this person has been criticised for that opinion by other academics but you believe what you like, its not as if facts are high on your list of priorities.

So my interpretation differs to yours therefore ivetmade a mistake and should own up to it?

The post in question clearly stated that because North Korea is a totalarian state it is therefor right wing. There is an implication that totalarian = right wing and its as clear as day even if you and two other posters don't agree.

You also stated that fascism isn't exclusively right wing(I'd accept it as a typo if it happened once, and I would have said nothing about it but you repeatedly used fascist and fascism and even after correcting yourself you've left fascism in where you should have replaced it with totalarianism). That displays a complete lack understanding, on the most fundamental and rudimentary level of what fascism is and consequently calls into question your opinions on anything related to it but I'm the one who needs to own up to a mistake based on my interpretation of the subtext of a post?

You didn't have to wade in on this to begin with. McHardcore had made a post earlier that I decided to ignore as we had been going around in circles.

You decided to throw your hat into the ring and contributed a post that began with telling me to read what was in front of me properly and then you proceeded to write a post absolutely riddled with errors which you now claim were simply typographical but to anyone reading them and your attempt to correct them retrospectively (it still at the time of this post doesn't read correctly, you may want to have another attempt at correcting it) the errors were in point of fact conceptual errors that demonstrated a complete lack of understanding of a topic you decided to weigh in on after the discussion had already run its natural course.

In the end I had a disagreement with McHardcore and was satisfied to not pursue it further and let them have the last word. You decided to resurrect this all by yourself.

Don't p*ss on my leg and tell me it's raining.

Whatever you say Tony.

All the best.

Also I don't get people saying oh no staff shortages ..lab shortages ...yet enough with the immigration!

Where do you think the staff will come from????

The HSE would collapse ....

You have been corrected by at least four posters now, but you keep returning to the same point.

Also, what is "earlothat"?

Yes, we've heard your complaints of other posters typing mistakes and your confusion over the structure of sentences. You have been very vocal about this. No one agrees with you. You are on your own with that.