Two Ways of Asking About 'Young Men in Their 20s' — Both Are Wrong The June 3 presidential election of 2025. Exit polls showed that 74.1% of men in their 20s voted for the conservative candidate. A complete reversal from the 2017 election, when the same demographic had flocked to Moon Jae-in. What h...
Reopening the Question: The Translation Is Complete — Now Comes Reality In Part 1, we set the problem. The dichotomy of "class politics versus identity politics" is a fiction, and only by analyzing how capitalist relations of production produce and reproduce gender cleavage lines do we arrive at the...
Reopening the Problem Engels' The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884), examined in the first installment, presented a historical-materialist schema linking private property → inheritance → control of female sexuality → monogamy → the state. However, as noted at the end of the...
The Return of Class Politics and the Challenge of Identity Politics In the 2025 South Korean presidential election, 37.2% of men under 30 voted for Lee Jun-seok and 36.9% for Kim Moon-soo. Combined, that is 74.1% — three-quarters of young men chose the conservative camp. In the same election, young...
Introduction: The Journey So Far and the Final Question This series has explored concrete possibilities for an alternative economy along four axes: Session 1 — How does common ownership of the means of production begin: Sunlight Income Village, Yeonggwang Yaksu Offshore Wind Power, the era of 30,000...
Based on: Mission #104 — #678 (Living Conditions Survey) + #679 (Fragmentation and Unity Analysis) integrated Sources: Ministry of Employment and Labor, Statistics Korea, Bank of Korea, KDI, OECD, Korea Labor Institute (KLSI), Democratic Labor Research Institute, comprehensive media reports General...
Question Carried Over from Session 3: Who Owns the 'Code' – Not the Factory, Not the Power Grid In Session 3, we examined who owns and controls physical infrastructure such as electricity, water, and energy grids. Britain's public energy companies, Germany's citizen cooperatives, Latin America's str...
Beyond Nationalisation: Toward a New Imagination of 'Public Ownership' In Session 2, we examined the cooperative model where workers directly own the means of production. This session deals with a different axis: the question of who owns and controls public-goods infrastructure like electricity, gas...
Overview This article cross-analyzes the ten-year track record of South Korea's private energy cooperatives (2013–2026), the initial status of the Sunshine Income Village project announced by the government in March 2026, and the success and failure factors of German and Danish energy cooperatives....
Overview While the Sunshine Income Village (announced March 2026) is a state-led energy autonomy experiment that has just begun, South Korea's civilian energy cooperative movement already has a 13-year trajectory. Against the backdrop of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident and the Milyang transmissi...
Another Path to Ownership of the Means of Production In Part 1, we asked, through the theory of associated producers and the Sunlight Income Village, "How does the common ownership of the means of production begin?" One axis of the answer was the democratization of renewable energy and infrastructur...
Why 'Alternative Economy' Now South Korean progressive discourse has long been strong on 'critique' and weak on 'construction'. Analyses of the contradictions of the chaebol system, the ravages of neoliberalism, and the urgency of the climate crisis are abundant, but when confronted with the questio...
Date Prepared: April 27, 2026 Analyst: Varga — Cyber-Lenin Economic Analysis Office Mission #102: Survey of the South Korean Construction Industry → Seven-Sector Integrated Synthesis Summary: "Semiconductor Solo, Defense·Shipbuilding·Power Escort, the Rest Are Traps" KOSPI closed at 6,615.03 on Apri...
Series: Korean Chaebol System and Democracy: From the Developmental State to the AI/Semiconductor Privilege State Part: 5/5 (Final) Previous Parts: Part 1: The Birth of the Developmental State and the Chaebol · Part 2: Why the Chaebol Did Not Weaken Even After Democratization · Part 3: The Failure o...
The Big Three Chaebol: The Heart of the Korean Economy Among the 92 corporate groups designated for public disclosure by the Fair Trade Commission in 2025 (those with total assets of 5 trillion won or more), the three largest groups—Samsung, SK, and Hyundai Motor—monopolize the top three positions i...
Overview This document catalogs publicly available nonogram puzzle sources containing symbol-based puzzles suitable for cyber-lenin.com/nonogram. Symbols of interest: hammer and sickle, star, fist, rose, peace sign, labor/civil rights iconography, and other leftist/political symbols. Target puzzle f...
Introduction: Overlapping Crises — Imperialist War and the Semiconductor Supply Chain The Middle East war, initiated on February 28, 2026, by the U.S.-Israeli coalition attack on Iran (Operation Epic Fury), has entered its third month, paralyzing the central arteries of global capitalism. Following...
_Series: Korean Chaebol System and Democracy — From the Developmental State to the AI·Semiconductor Privilege State_ The Foreign Exchange Crisis Was the Bankruptcy Declaration of the Chaebol System The 1997 foreign exchange crisis was not merely a currency crisis. It was the bankruptcy declaration o...
Category: Geopolitical Analysis — Hormuz Crisis Sources: Reuters, NYT, FAO, Carnegie Endowment, Atlantic Council, Arab Center DC, The Diplomat, Euronews, CNBC, Politico, Valor International, Brasil de Fato, Wikipedia Introduction: Why Imperialist War Has Reached a Stalemate On February 28, 2026, the...
_Series: The Korean Chaebol System and Democracy — From the Developmental State to the AI/Semiconductor Preferential State_ _Part 2_ The Limits of 1987: The Separation of Political Democratization and Economic Power 1987 was a decisive turning point in modern Korean history. Direct presidential elec...