What is Korean-style socialism?

According to their historical position, the nobles of France and Britain have a mission, which is to write works that attack modern bourgeois society. In the July Revolution in France 1830 and the Reform Movement in Britain, it was once again defeated by the hateful upstarts. From then on, there will be no serious political struggle. All they can do is fight with words. However, even in writing, it is impossible to repeat the old tune of the Restoration period. In order to arouse sympathy, the nobles had to pretend that they no longer cared about their own interests, but only wrote a complaint against the bourgeoisie for the benefit of the exploited working class. They used to vent their anger by singing, curse their new ruler and mumble some more or less dangerous predictions to him.

In this way, feudal socialism was born, half elegy and half slander; Half is the echo of the past, half is the threat of the future; It can sometimes stab the bourgeoisie with spicy, witty and sharp comments, but it is always ridiculous because it can't understand the process of modern history at all.

In order to win people's hearts, the nobles waved proletarian begging bags as flags. However, whenever the people followed and found that their hips had old feudal heraldic arms, they laughed and dispersed in a hubbub.

Some French orthodoxy and "young Britain" have acted in this play.

The feudal lords said that their exploitation methods were different from those of the bourgeoisie, but they just forgot that they were exploiting in completely different and now outdated environments and conditions. They say that there is no modern proletariat under their rule, but they just forget that the modern bourgeoisie is the inevitable product of their social system.

However, they made no secret of the reactionary nature of their criticism. They accused the bourgeoisie of the main crime is that under the rule of the bourgeoisie, the development of a class will blow up the whole old social system.

They accused the bourgeoisie not so much because it produced the proletariat as because it produced the revolutionary proletariat.

Therefore, in political practice, they take part in all violent measures against the working class. In daily life, they go against their grandiose words and condescend to pick up golden apples, regardless of faith, benevolence and reputation, to trade wool, beets and soju.

Just as monks always walked hand in hand with feudal lords, so did the socialism of monks.

It is easy to paint Christian asceticism with a socialist color. Isn't Christianity also fiercely opposed to private ownership, marriage and the state? Isn't it to advocate good deeds and begging, celibacy and abstinence, monasticism and worship instead of all this? Christian socialism is nothing but holy water used by monks to sanctify aristocratic resentment.

-Marx and Engels Declaration * * *