North Korea? That's state _capitalism_, Keith. (you said it right:
"national enterprise" -- enterpreneurial spirit at work there...)
Chris
Keith Hudson wrote:
> After reading the moving account of the closure of the Sydney Steel Plant
> in the Halifax Daily News with its implicit condemnation of capitalism, I
> was listening to an account of slavery on BBC Radio 4 News over here.
>
> Twenty-seven million people in the world are estimated to be enslaved.
>
> Just one example: in communist North Korea, when the factories are running
> short of labour, men, women and children are rounded up in the countryside
> on one pretext or another and drafted into the factories. In one rubber
> factory, the workers are naked and covered in dirt so completely that only
> their eyes and teeth are discernible in the darkness. They have to place
> rubber slugs under high-speed rollers. They are permanently tired and if
> they are not quick enough then they can easily lose an arm. Sometimes their
> entire bodies are drawn into the machinery. Then, of course, the factory
> has to send out for more "workers" to help this praiseworthy national
> enterprise. ^^^^^^^^
> ^^^^^^^^^^
> The nastiest periods of capitalism in the whole course of the Industrial
> Revolution cannot compare with this.
