No, Professor, Communism is Still Stupid

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On February 17^th 2015, a history professor from the University of Southern California, Kyung Moon Hwang, penned an article– History of anti-communism in South Korea– in The Korea Times.

In the article, Professor Hwang claimed that particularly older Koreans' views of communism was outdated and antiquated. He claimed that it was a result of the American government's attempt at establishing an anti-communist front in Northeast Asia during the height of the Cold War, as well as subsequent Korean governments' attempts to legitimize their own rule over the people.

Therefore, as Professor Hwang says, despite the fact that “communism was a much more complicated topic than what they (Koreans) had been taught,” most people took it for granted, and the Korean people “simply equated communism with North Korea, without wondering how communism or socialism arose around the world, or why it might have been so appealing in Korea in the earlier part of the 20th century,” which has, therefore, allowed the ruling class to maintain their hold on power by engaging in red-baiting.

Professor Hwang ends his article by saying that older South Koreans remain beholden to their history, “in an almost juvenile manner;” and that “a truer maturation of this (Korean) society will eventually emerge with the passing of its most mature generations.”

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Professor Hwang was certainly correct about a lot of things; though I'm not sure about his last sentence. However, what is interesting is that Professor Hwang never seems to explain a few things.

For one thing, he does not explain why Koreans' views of communism may be antiquated. He simply starts out with that premise as an established fact. To be specific, he assumes that because the American and Korean governments said that communism was evil, the people accepted that communism was evil at face value.

I am not sure if Professor Hwang consciously or subconsciously believes this or not, but I get the feeling that he seems to think that individuals are not capable of having their own thoughts that are not spoon-fed to them by governmental or intellectual elites.

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For instance, although Professor Hwang mentions a great deal about the corrupt nature of South Korea's past dictatorships, their use of anti-communism as a tool to suppress political opponents, and the unjust nature of the National Security Law, he does not even mention in passing the egregious acts of terror and political crimes that were committed by the communists (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here).

No, the crimes that were committed by the communists do NOTexcuse the crimes that were committed by the anti-communists, whether they were committed in Korea or in any other part of the world. Two wrongs never make a right. However, what Professor Hwang utterly failed to do, which ought to shame him considering that he is a professor of history, is that he seems to be implying that anti-communism somehow existed in a vacuum.

However, one thing that Professor Hwang certainly got right was when he said that it is wrong to equate communism with North Korea. I agree with him there. Such comparisons are ludicrous. That would be akin to equating capitalism with South Korea (I'm looking at you, Korea Exposé).

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But how would accepting communism as a much more complicated topic lead to “a truer maturation of this society?” Is Professor Hwang simply talking about raising the academic standards of Koreans? Or is he talking about adopting (at least some) communist policies or philosophical beliefs as our own?

If it is the former, I certainly have no problems with it. After all, it was SunTzu who said, “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.”

However, if it is the latter, well.

Of course, some people who are reading this will quickly object that communism, as advocated by Karl Marxand Ludwig Feuerbach, has nothing to do with the crimes and the terror that were committed in its name by their successors. But is that true?

I have heard many people say that while the tactics and the methods that were employed by communist regimes were brutal and evil, communist ideals remain noble. That is a damned, dirty lie.

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Communist ideals are NOTnoble. When an ideology makes the claim that an individual must not live for himself, but rather for the sake of the Proletariat, it becomes evident that the chief purpose of such an ideology is to destroy independence in all of its forms – thought, action, property, and being. It's very end goal becomes to create nothing less than a slave-state.

Professor Hwang is correct when he says that communism has been absurdly distorted by the North Korean regime. However, he does not seem to stop to wonder whether or not the North Korean regime might be the logical outcome of communist ideals when put into practice.

When calls are made for people to give their all, by necessity, there must be those who will do the collecting. And when people are made to live for the King or the State or the Proletariat or for God, then, by necessity, that ideology, and its leaders in particular, will demand conformity, submission, and obedience.

Academics are quick to focus on their theories and neat models that exist in their perfect worlds. But too often they remain painfully unaware of how their theories and models might work in reality.

So do Koreans have a rather juvenile understanding of communism? I think it would not be too difficult to make such a case. In that regard, Professor Hwang may be right. The problem, however, and one that Professor Hwang does not bother to mention, is that communism itself is quite juvenile.

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