The reason why Japan and South Korea are better off is because it served the US's interests better to have two strong economies in Asia to combat the PRC, the USSR and the DPRK.

John2290 said:

It shouldn't bring you comfort. Don't let yourself forget that more than a hundred million were killed directly by followers of Marx and that continues into the 21st century, albeit less directly. I'm not telling you what you should think here nor what you should read however the real world implications whould scare you and that comfort that you feel should be something that you should try to side step or at least unsettle yourself be reading oppossing philosophy and writings. At the very least looking at other ideologies will help you understand why it is giving you comfort and why that should be not such a good thing.

If we're going that route, 100 million is way less than the hundreds of millions by capitalist countries. Also, Stalinism and Maoism are not Marxism, they are separate ideologies (for example, Stalin's "socialism in one country" is not part of Marxist ideology).

(snip, lol why would I want people to scroll past a 1568 x 2148px or thereabouts image)

I read the op and a few posts in this thread and I have no fucking clue what this is about.

Well, it didn't help when he started the thread by saying that the current "SJW" culture is the result of the USSR and its intelligence service secretly sending people here in order to raise propaganda and start a Marxist revolution.