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Monthly Archives: January 2019

De Novo Mutations of Communism in North Korea During the Cultural Revolution

This was originally a paper I wrote in 2008 for a class on the history of Korea. I’m republishing it now because it seems novel and I haven’t heard anyone describe North Korean communism this way. In historiographical terms the political ideology of a nation is analogous to the genetic material of an organism. Richard […]