Creation: Proletarian Liberation Struggle Association, Historical Materialism Group
On April 4th, local time, the South Korean Constitutional Court officially delivered its verdict on the impeachment case of Yoon Suk-yeol, unanimously passing the impeachment with a vote of 8 to 0. As a result, Yoon Suk-yeol was officially dismissed, becoming the second president in South Korean history to be impeached.
Yoon Suk-yeol’s removal is the result of the Korean fascism being struck down by the people, and also a decision that the bourgeois democratic camp had to make under public pressure. Just as Yoon Suk-yeol’s previous coup attempt was heroically thwarted by the Korean people, his final removal was also the result of a struggle. After the coup failed, the dying Yoon Suk-yeol delivered a dual twelve speech, attempting to absolve himself of guilt and shift all responsibility onto Korean legislators, especially onto the bourgeois democratic camp, while glorifying his fascist coup as an unavoidable act for the
It turns out that Park Geun-hye was also involved in those fxs (fascist) activities that led to her impeachment. I hadn’t known before; bourgeois media only talk about her close aides’ political interference (which is probably also backed by capital). After searching online, I found that Park Geun-hye had planned martial law, but it was thwarted due to pressure from the masses. The bourgeois media promote the so-called Blue House curse, but that’s nonsense because it’s “small army, wild horse,” actually reflecting the reactionary and decayed ruling class, with intense class struggle.
After the Sewol ferry incident, a documentary called “Diving Bell” revealed the Park Geun-hye government’s inaction in rescue efforts, obstructing family members and civilian rescue teams. At that time, bourgeois filmmakers gathered at the Busan International Film Festival to collectively screen this documentary. Park Geun-hye then ordered sanctions against more than 4,000 bourgeois film stars and various other people involved. If it weren’t for the people overthrowing the Park Geun-hye government, those people would have been wiped out long ago.
Ask what kind of country Korea essentially is, what its main contradictions are. Its government is comprador, so does that count as a colony? But it seems that Korea’s economy is not as backward as a typical third-world colony. Its landlord class was largely eliminated after the war or transformed into the bourgeoisie with the help of the US military government, but it still faces democratic struggles and more complex national issues now. I don’t know how to view this.
