Except the two colonies are very different. One has murdered hundreds of thousands if it's citizens, starved millions to death in a giant socialist death camp. The other has brought freedom, wealth and prosperity.

"it's nothing to do with socialism."

really? the mass appropriation  of land into state owned communes didn't lead to mass starvation  in  the 1990s? THe total state ownership of all means of production and the banning of 'markets' didn't cause North Korea to be one of the most impoverished nations in the world?

And the introduction of free markets and allowing for small scale private production after 2000 hasn't ended the horrific levels of death from starvation in NK?

Well all be, I guess socialism does work.

Damn socialists must keep getting it wrong! Let's give it another whack....who has a few million peasants we can try again with?

"debate" about why socialism is the mostest evilest thing evar"

I didn't realize there was a debate whether the 2-3 million North Koreans starved to death by Socialist policies in the 1990s was evil?

Socialists are always one pile of corpses away from getting it right.

"@3: That's not socialism, that's a totalitarianism dictatorship."

Well, that's what state control of an economy necessitates! I know, I know, you're still wring out those kinks; a few million more dead and you'll get it right.