While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America

by Yeonmi Park

Leftism has its foundation in the centralization of these rights not in the individual but in groups organized and directed by the state. Liberalism values color blindness—that the color of one’s skin determines and should determine nothing. Leftists believe that almost everything in society can and should be determined by race alone. Liberalism promotes racial integration and inclusivity; leftism promotes increased racial segregation and exclusion. Leftists and liberals differ on their attitude toward capitalism, too. For liberals, capitalism is the only proven method of bringing the greatest number of people possible out of poverty. For leftists, capitalism is the cause of, rather than the solution to, poverty, and must be extinguished through the elimination of free markets and the greater centralization of state power over the economy and individual decision-making.