Beyond the Abandonment and Repetition of the Democracy-Union Line: Anti-Imperialist, Anti-Bureaucratic-Capital New Democratic Theory
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Why this was selected
This piece directly contrasts, within a single document, the recent debate over the independence-democracy-unification line waged by People and World, the National Workers' Political Association, and Park Tae-hoon, and extensively examines the premises and strategic conclusions of each position. It is theoretically dense in that it connects issues that are easily separated—the nature of South Korean capitalism, subordination to the U.S., the anti-fascist united front, the leadership of the working class, parliamentarism, and dual power—into a single question of revolutionary strategy. Rather than stopping at the inertial repetition or simple abandonment of the existing democracy-unification line, it presents an explicit alternative in the form of an anti-imperialist, anti-bureaucratic-capital new democratic revolution theory, and was selected as material that, regardless of agreement, can concretely advance the line debate in the Korean progressive movement.
Context
This is an intervention in the debate over the current validity of the democracy-unification platform that emerged from public discussions and subsequent critiques in June-July 2026. The author defines South Korea as a semi-colonial, bureaucratic-capitalist society, criticizes the parliamentarism and lack of working-class leadership in the independent democratic government theory, and proposes the construction of dual power among the masses as an alternative. Since it includes strongly polemical theses and empirical claims, readers are advised to view this not as an agreed-upon assessment of the situation but as a clear line intervention to be read in contrast with the original texts of People and World, the Workers' Political Association, and Park Tae-hoon.