Kim Jong Il
On
the Fundamentals of
(October 10, 1992)
Safeguarding
and developing the socialist cause is the most important task now facing
revolutionary parties and peoples. Although it is
undergoing trials, socialism is as ever the objective of the struggle of
revolutionary parties as well as the aspiration of progressive people. This is
shown clearly by the fact that many revolutionary parties throughout the world
have signed the declaration, which was adopted in
How the socialist cause is promoted depends on
how the party, which leads this cause, is built and how it's leading role is
enhanced. The history of the struggle for socialism can be called the history
of building the working-class party and of its activities. The whole course of
the bloody struggle of the working class and other sections of the working
masses for socialism shows that the key to victory lies in party building and
party activities and that the failure has its causes in party building and
party activities.
Now that revolutionary parties have adopted the
Pyongyang Declaration as their common fighting program and are
understanding a fresh struggle for socialism, it is extremely important
to conduct a correct review of the historical experience and lessons of party
building. Such a review is also a Pressing matter in enabling our officials and
Party members to heighten their vigilance against ail the attempts of the class
enemies who are bent on destroying the revolutionary party of the working class,
to strengthen the party steadily, to enhance its leading role and thus to
continue to promote the socialist cause vigorously.
The setback faced by socialism in a number of
countries is a serious lesson for us. Here it is particularly important for us
to understand clearly why parties that had guided the socialist cause through
arduous struggles for many decades collapsed so quickly. That is important
because party leadership is vital to the socialist cause.
A socialist society is an advanced society that
represents the popular masses' desire for independence, and humanity's advance
towards socialism is the trend of historical development. The working-class
party guides the tide of human history towards socialism, and the progress of
socialist society requires that the working- class party should be developed
and strengthened steadily. The collapse of socialist ruling parities and
socialism's return to capitalism in some countries in recent years can be
considered as abnormal, passing phenomena in the light of the general trend of
human history.
The collapse of parties, which had been building
socialism, was an abnormal occurrence also in view of the circumstances and
conditions for Party building and op activities. The circumstances and conditions
for party building and party activities in socialist society are incomparable
superior to those in capitalist society. In socialist society there are no
socio-economic and class conditions restricting the building and activities of
the working-class Party, the Party's social and class foundations are broad, and
the party has greater possibilities for winning the support and confidence of
the popular masses through the implementation of popular policies. The collapse
of socialist ruling parties in spite of this is explain by the fact that party
building and Party activities were no conducted proper.
The most important factor in party building and
party activities is to strengthen the party's organizational and ideological
bases.
The working-class party is a political
organization that has been formed on the basis of the working-class ideology, and
as such how its organizational and ideological bases are built is a basic
factor that is essential to its existence. The working-class party must lay and
strengthen its organizational and ideological foundations in the whole process
of preparing its foundation and development. The strengthening of its
organizational and ideological foundations is particularly important when the
inheritance of the party leadership is an issue, because at that moment the
class enemies at home and for and schemers and ambitious elements that are
greedy for power maneuver more overtly than ever.
If its organizational and ideological bases are
solid, the socialist ruling party can thwart all the schemes of the
imperialists and class enemies to undermine the party. Treachery within the
Party is a greater danger to the existence of the party than destructive moves
from outside, but whether or not treachery can be prevented depends on the
solidity of its organizational and ideological foundations. If the party
adheres to revolutionary principles and has durable organizational and
ideological foundations, its leadership will not fall into the hands of
traitors to the revolution, and should the leadership fall into their hands, the
traitors will find it difficult to impose their counterrevolutionary line upon
the party organizations and party members. But the organizational and
ideological foundations of several parities were weakened because of a bend
towed bourgeois liberalism that had infiltrated them. Taking advantage of this
weakness, the traitors to the revolution were able to dictate their
counterrevolutionary line to their subordinates openly. In particular the body
of cadre, the backbone of the organizational and theological foundations of the
party, was not built up well and ideological degeneration was evident among
them. Therefore, many cadres failed to distinguish between the revolution and
counterrevolution clearly and, even when the counterrevolutionary nature of the
traitors was identified, they ideologically sympathized with them and followed
them blindly or flattered them submissively, for the purpose of self-protection
in preference. Of course, the staunch communists preserved their conscience of
party membership and fought to defend the party and socialism. But their
struggle could not halt the adverse current of counterrevolution that had
emerged due to the long-term degeneration of the party.
Another important matter in the building and
activates of the working-class party is the fortification of its mass
foundation.
It is an essential condition for the existence of
the working-class party that represents the interests of the masses to strike
root among the masses. Without the support of the masses the working-class
party cannot maintain its existence.
For the socialist ruling party to consolidate its
mass base it is essential for it to build socialism successfully so as to
display the advantages of the socialist system to the full and. at the same
time, to work well with the masses and equip them fully with the socialist
ideology. Fundamentally speaking, the working-class party is a party of the
popular masses themselves, which fights in defense of their interests. Therefore,
if the working masses oppose the working-class party it means that they are
opposing themselves. But if the socialist ruling party fails to bring the
superiority of the socialist system into full play because of the inefficient
organization and leadership of socialist construction, and if it fails to
overcome bureaucracy and other outmoded work methods and styles, and bribery
and other forms of irregularities and corruption, within the party, it may
become divorced from the masses. As for bureaucracy, it was in evidence in the
early days of the building of socialism. It was more or less inevitable that
officials should employ outmoded work methods and styles because they pertained the remnants of outmoded ideas and had no
experience of the management of socialist society. But the officials' outmoded
work methods and styles at that time did no result in such a serious
consequence as jeopardizing the revolutionary achievements, because the workers
and peasants were giving strong support to the working-class party and the
socialist power that has freed them from exploitation and oppression. With the
passage of time, however, the people's class awareness dulled and their demands
increased, whereas bureaucratic practices grew mere serious as the cadres were
replaced by members of the new generation that lacked revolutionary training
and, worse still, irregularities and corruption which had been a minor problem
in the early period of building socialism increased to a considerable extent. These
evils do not emanate from the nature of the working-class party and the
socialist society, but from outmoded ideological remnants and bourgeois
ideology. So they can be overcome if the Party strengthens its organizational
and ideological work and combats them. But, many parties paid no due attention
to the organizational and ideological work of the party. As a result, they were
unable to eliminate such unsound elements as bureaucracy, irregularities and
corruption. Meanwhile, they neglected the work of educating the popular masses
in the socialist ideology and tolerated ideological and cultural infiltration
by the imperialists. Consequently, the political consciousness of many people
dulled and they were deceived by the anti-socialist maneuver of the
imperialists and reactionaries. Renegade socialists and deaconries, talking
about "democracy" and "glasnost", used the shortcomings
revealed in the socialist ruling parties as a means of misleading public
opinion. But, if the popular masses had been fully armed with the socialist
ideology, many people would not have been fooled by the counterrevolutionaries
and would not have opposed their parties and governments.
The degeneration within socialist government
parties, which resulted in the frustration of socialism, began with their
discarding the revolutionary principles for building a working-class party. The
revolutionary principles for building a working-class party were put for ward
in Marxism-Leninism. The founders of Marxism, who believed that a vanguard for
the working-class was needed to lead its revolutionary struggle to victory, formed
the Columnist Union, the political organization of the working-class, and
founded the First International, and they worked hard to develop the
international communist movement under the party's leadership. In the course of
this, the founders of Marxism established a number of party-building principles.
Lenin, upholding Marxist principles for party building, developed the theory of
party building in accordance with the historical conditions in which the
proletarian revolution became necessary with capitalism's transition to the
stage of imperialism. He defined the poor peasantry, along with the working
class, as the motive force of the revolution and, on that new class basis, founded
a revolutionary party. With the victory of the October Socialist Revolution in
The new era of independence in which the popular
masses shape their destiny independently and creatively required a fresh
development in party--building theories. As a theory in the period of the
struggle of the working-class party for the seizure of power, the Marxist-Leninist
theory of party building did not clarify the details of how the working-class
party in power should develop itself and conduct its activities. Many new
theoretical and practical prowlers occurred in the building and archives of the
party as the leading political organization of society after its seizure of
power and the establishment of the socialist system. But several parties
followed Marxism-Leninism dogmatically, claiming that it was their guiding
principle. As a resu1t they did not develop a party-building theory as required
by the situation in which socialism was being built. Therefore, they failed to
find correct solutions to such new problems as those of strengthening their
ranks organizationally and ideologically and consolidating their mass
foundations to suit their ruing position. When the limitations of the Marxist-Leninist
theory of party building were revealed, the modem revisionists, taking
advantage of them, led the working-class parties to degeneration. Under the
pretext of developing the Marxist-Leninist party-building theory in accordance
with the changed circumstances and conditions, the modern revisionists
emasculated the theory's revolutionary essence, weakened their parties
systematically and paralyzed their leadership functions.
A socialist society requires that the working-class
party should be strengthened steadily and its leadership role enhanced. Socialist
society, which is based on collectivism, can nether neither maintains itself
nor blazes a trail successfully towards socialism and communism without the
correct political leadership of the party. In the course of many years of
living in comfort in socialist society, the revolutionary spirit may gradually
disappear and idle and easy-going practices come to prevail among the new
generation and other people who have not experienced exploitation, oppression
and unship. All this requires the strengthening of the party and the
improvement of its leading role, as well as a more positive effort to educate
party members and other people in the revolutionary spirit. But, many socialist
ruing parties neglected to strengthen themselves and to provide party members
and the people with revolutionary education, believing that everything would go
well merely if they built the economy after the establishment of the socialist
system. Economic construction is an important task for socialist ruling parties
after the establishment of the socialist system. But, if they emphasize only
economic construction and neglect to strengthen them and to educate party
members and the people in the revolutionary spirit, they cannot build even the
economy successfully and may lose the gains of the socialist revolution.
The socialist government parties and the
socialist systems collapsed in many countries, not just a few, because they had
failed to establish Juche in their development and activities.
Establishing Juche is the fundamental requirement
in the building and the activities of a revolutionary party. The revolutionary
party of the working class is an independent political organization, which
combats domination and subordination in all forms and struggles to realize the
independence of the working masses. Therefore the revolutionary party must
resolve all the problems that arise in its building and activities with its own
ideas and by its own efforts. Of course, in the early days of the imitational
communist movement the guidance and assistance of the imitational center was
necessary for the countries whose communist hard core was not sufficiency
Prepared to carry out the cause of party building.
As history developed and the revolution
progressed, a columnist hard core and revolutionary forces
grew up in different countries and every party became able to conduct the revolution
independently in keeping with the specific conditions in its own country. In
this historical situation it was not realistic for an international center to
guide the parties and revolutionary movements of different countries in a
uniform way, so the Columnist International ceased to exist.
But even after the Commenter had been dissolved, old
practices lasted for a long time in the relations between communist and workers'
parties, practices expressed in their dogmatic acceptance of the party lines and
policies of a major country which had carried out the socialist revolution
earlier. The good experience of others should be adopted, but in such a case it
should be assimilated creatively to suit the specific situation in the country
concerned. Since the specific conditions vary with the country, socialism
cannot be built successfully if foreign experience is adopted dogmatically. Nevertheless,
many parties, being in the habit of copying the lines and policies of the party
of another country, followed the other when it abandoned socialist Principles
and pursued revisionism. They even accepted the counterrevolutionary lines, which
the traitors to socialism dictated to them. This resulted in the collapse of
the socialist government parties in the
The process of the disintegration of parties that
had seized power after an arduous revolutionary struggle and had spent decades
building socialism and of the destruction of the socialist systems is a serious
lesson.
The historical lesson from the collapse of the
socialist ruling parties and of the socialist systems in many countries is that
the purity of the socialist idea must be maintained firmly if the cause of
socialism is to be completed.
Historical experience shows that when people's
ideology degenerates, both the working-class party and the socialist system
will also become degenerate and cease to exist. The emergence of renegades from
the party, the organizational and ideological disintegration of the party and
the change in public feelings all sated from degeneration in ideology. If
ideology degenerates, even great economic and military powers will collapse and
the socialist system that has been developed for decades will inevitably be destroyed.
The most dangerous ideological trend, which
undermines socialism, is that of revisionism, dogmatism and flunkeyism.
The idea, which is directly antagonistic to the
socialist idea, is the bourgeois idea, but the bourgeois idea cannot prevent the
attraction of the socialist idea. The bourgeois idea, that reflects the
avaricious demands of the exploiter classes, cannot conceal its reactionary
nature, no matter what hypocrisy is used to embellish it. It is natural that
the working masses should accept the socialist idea, which reflects their
demand for independence instead of the bourgeois idea, which reflects the
demands of the exploiter classes that infringe upon their independence. Therefore,
the imperialists and capitalists have used revisionism, which is the revision
of the socialist idea, to cater to their desires, as an ideological installment.
As it was in the past, so at present, too, revisionism is the main threat to
the accomplishment of the socialist cause. Being the reflector of the bourgeois
idea, which emerged in the communist movement, revisionism has prevented
revolutionary transition to socialism in capitalist countries and has been used
by the imperialists as their ideological instrument in their strategy of ¡°peaceful
transition¡±, by opening the road to the return to capitalism in socialist
countries. But no matte how carefully modem revisionism may disguise itself, we
must identify its reactionary nature and categorically oppose and reject it.
Dogmatism and flunkeyism are also dangerous
ideological elements in the accomplishment of the cause of socialism. Dogmatism
and flunkeyism prevent the socialist idea from displaying its full vitality. Those
who are steeped in dogmatism and sycophancy will dance to the tune of other
instead of acting in accordance with their own beliefs, will adopt revisionism
if others practice revisionism and, ultimately, will harbor illusions about the
developed capitalist countries and recklessly introduce capitalist methods. We
must not tolerate even the slightest expression of dogmatism and sycophancy and
must solve all problems to meet the requirements of our people and the
situation in our country, maintaining our own beliefs at all times.
Another historical lesson to be learned from the
collapse of the socialist ruling parties and of the socialist systems in some
countries is that continuity of leadership must be ensured if one is to
complete the cause of socialism.
We cannot regard the responsibility for the
disintegration of the socialist ruling parties as resting with ordinary party
members. In any of those countries ordinary party members have faithfully
supported the cause of the working-class party and grieved at its collapse. The
problem was that the continuity of revolutionary leadership was not ensured.
The destiny of the cause of socialism, which
emerges in the fierce struggle against the class enemies, depends on how
leadership of it is ensured. The struggle for socialism has developed in many
countries over a long historical period, but correct leadership for it has not
always been ensured. Leadership of the cause of socialism can be ensured only
when an outstanding leader stands at its center. There is no greater fortune
for people than being guided by a leader who enjoy their absolute trust for his
brilliant wisdom, outstanding leadership ability and noble virtue as well as
for his lasting achievements. This does not mean that People who have no such
great leader cannot carry out the cause of socialism. The mot valuable of the
traits of a leader who leads the cause of socialism is his loyalty to this
cause and to the people. A leader derives wisdom, leadership ability and virtue
from the popular masses. The people are teachers, and there cannot be a
prominent leader who is isolated from the people. Correct leadership will be
ensured when the leader mixes with the popular masses at all times, listens to
their opinions and solves everything by relying on their strength, and the
leader who has such popular leadership qualities is a true leader of the People.
Disregarding the opinions of the people and not believing in their strength are
the traits of a renegade. If such a renegade holds power, the misfortune the
people will suffer will be immeasurable. The greatest misery for people is to
have the wrong leader.
If continuity of leadership is to be ensured in a
socialist society, the party should be strong. In general, the personality and
qualities of the leader of a columnist movement are formed through a process in
which he is tempered and tested in a fierce class struggle. But the personality
and qualities of the leader of the new generation in a socialist society are
shaped in the course of his being tempered and seasoned through a party life
and the practical work of building socialism. If an admirable leader is to come
forward, a leader who has been tempered and tested through a party life and
revolutionary practice in a socialist society, the party should be powerful. Historical
experience shows that it is quite possible for an excellent leader to come
forward who is faithful to the cause of socialism and the people and is well-qualified
and can cap forward the cause of socialism successfully if the problem of
continuity of leadership is solved in a foresighted way on the basis of
strengthening the party organizationally and ideologically and observing party
principles.
The collapse of the socialist ruling parties and
the destruction of the socialist systems in many countries are a great loss to
the cause of independence for the popular masses. But if one learns a lesson
from one's failure and opens up the revolutionary path of party building
independently and creatively, one will be able to build a more revolutionary
and militant party and continually promote the cause of socialism under the
leadership of the party.
The bitter experience of the collapse of the
socialist ruling parties and the destruction of the socialist systems in many
countries demands that we should recognize more clearly the validity of our
Party's line of building a Juche party and work still harder to implement it.
Our party has always solved in its own way, proceeding
from a Juche stand, all the problems which have been raised in the building of
the party and in its activities. Had our party followed others in the building
of the party and in its activities, it would have been harmed. In the history
of our party, too, there were at one time pressure from outside forces and
schemes by factionalists infected with flunkeyism who demanded that we should
follow others. But, our party did not move even a single step from its Juche
line. Because we have built our party and conducted its activities in our own
way, our Party is leading the revolution and construction energetically as a
militant detachment, which is united in one mind, even in today's complex
situation.
The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung has created a Juche theory on party building and
comprehensively systematized it after founding a Juche-based revolutionary
party which he has led on the basis of the Juche idea, and has also performed
immortal exploits and accumulated valuable experience in party building. This
is a great achievement and a sure guarantee for continually strengthening and
developing our Party as a revolutionary party of a Juche type.
The Juche idea is the sole guiding idea of our
Party.
The guiding idea of a party is its fundamental
idea, which clarifies the goal of its struggle as well as the principles and
ways for achieving that goal. The character of the party and the basic direction
of its building and activities are defined by its guiding idea. The party is a
political organization of people with the same idea. Therefore, a scientific
and revolutionary guiding idea for the party should be abolished before
anything else in party building. It is only when the party has a scientific and
revolutionary guiding idea that it will be able to convince its members and
other people of the validity of its cause and give them confidence in victory, to
achieve the unity and cohesion of the party and the revolutionary ranks in
ideology and will and to lead the revolution and construction to victory based
upon a correct strategy and proper techs.
The guiding ideas of the revolutionary parties of
the working class share common ground in that they reflect the desire of the
popular masses, the driving force of the revolution, for independence, and
their interests. Nevertheless, they have their own specific features because
the situation in every country is different. In the past it was stressed that the
parties of all countries should have one guiding idea, which was approved by
all. But the fact that the party of each country should work independently, with
its own guiding idea, and that it should develop its guiding idea creatively, was
neglected. This was an obstacle for every country in building the party and
making the revolution independently to suit its own situation. It is only when
a correct guiding idea is created and developed from an independent and
creative stand that a party can be built independently and the revolution and
construction be conducted successfully, taking the idea as its guiding
principle.
Because a party has to create a guiding idea to
keep abreast of the changing circumstances and its own situation, it should not
renounce the revolutionary principles that should be maintained invariably in
the building of the party and in its activities. The conditions, under which
the party works, as well as its duties, change in the course of accomplishing
the cause of socialism; therefore, the theoretical and practical problems
arising in the building of the party and in its activities should be solved
creatively to conform to this. But, revolutionary principles should invariably
be maintained because the class character of the party and its historical
mission cannot change. Renouncing revolutionary principles
because of changes in the circumstances and conditions means destroying the
revolutionary party and betraying the revolutionary cause of the popular masses.
The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung created the Juche idea and thus found a
brilliant way of providing a guiding ideology for the Party to meet the
requirements of the times and the situation in our country. The validity and
vitality of a revolutionary idea are defined by how correctly the idea reflects
the masses' desire for independence and their interests and how scientifically
it explains the way to meet them. The Juche idea accurately reflects the
fundamental requirements of the working class and the other working masses and
explains the way it should be implemented in an absolutely scientific manner. The
fundamental demand of the working class and the other working people is to end
exploitation and oppression of man by man and to enjoy an independent and
creative life as masters of the state and society. Because it mirrors the
masses' desire for independence and explains the way in which it should be
implemented in a comprehensive manner, the Juche idea is a perfect
revolutionary ideology of the working class which reflects the new age in which
the popular masses have emerged in the arena of history as masters of their
destiny. It is only when party building and its activities are guided by the
Juche idea that the party can consolidate and develop itself steadily and
conduct the revolution and construction with success. This has been proved in
our revolutionary practice.
Developing our Party into a mass party of the
working people is a basic policy of building it.
Formerly a party was regarded as a political
organization of a class, representing and defending the class's interests, and
as a weapon in the class struggle. The party is the vanguard of a class, which
fights to realize the demands and aspirations of that class. But, if it is
built into a party for that class alone, it is impossible for it to perform its
duties properly as a revolutionary party or to win the support of the broad
masses of the people. The situation now, in which the broad masses of the
people have emerged as the masters of their destiny, requires that the working-class
party be developed into a mass party which represents the interests of all the
people and embraces progressive elements from all classes and sections of the
working population. In socialist society in which all strata of the popular masses
have become socialist working People and the social and class composition is
becoming more and more homogeneous, it is all the more necessary to develop the
working-class party into a mass Parts.
The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, displaying
scientific insight into the requirements of our times and the specific
situation of our revolution, put forward the theory of building a mass party, thus
paving a new way for the building of a revolutionary party. The theory on
building a mass party evolved by the great leader is based on the Juche
revolutionary principle that the popular masses are the masters and the motive
force of the revolution and construction. The cause of socialism is an
undertaking by the people and for the People. Today, when the broad masses, of
the people are aspiring to socialism and the social and class foundations of
socialism have been expanded as never before, the party which fights for the
cause of socialism must naturally be developed into a mass party which
represents the interests of all the people and strikes
root among the broad working masses.
The party's development into a mass party must
not result in the weakening or alternation of its revolutionary and working-class
character. The class character of the party is defined by its guiding ideology
and fighting objectives; its revolutionary character is manifested in its
loyalty to the revolutionary ideology of the working class and to the socialist
cause. The cause of the working class conforms to the interests of all the
people, and the working class can achieve the socialist cause successfully only
when it rallies broad strata of the population behind it. It is, therefore, a
legitimate requirement in building the revolutionary party to develop it into a
mass party which champions the interests of all the People and comprises
fanners and intellectuals as well as the working class. Experience shows that
when it fails to become a mass party of the working people, a party may be
reduced to a political minority of communists when faced with difficulties in
the revolution. Only when it is built as a mass party which thoroughly
champions the masses' desire for independence and their interests and strikes
root among wide sections of the working people, can the party maintain unbreakable
ties with the masses and succeed in the socialist cause by relying on the
inexhaustible energies of the people who are rallied behind it.
The great leader, on the basis of the line of
building a mass party, built a revolutionary party of Juche which consists of
advanced elements of the workers, farmers and working intellectuals and
champions the interests of the popular masses, and thus set a brilliant example
in the building of a mass party. He had not only a hammer and sickle
symbolizing the workers and fanners but also a brush symbolizing the working
intellectuals form the Party's emblem, to suit the characteristics of our Party,
a mass Party, and has led the Party to form a harmonious whole with the masses
and render loyal service to all the people so as to provide them with an
independent and creative life. Our Party has developed into an unconquerable
revolutionary Party, which enjoys the unqualified support and trust of the
popular masses. It has become a powerful motive force for the revolution by
welding itself with the masses into a socio-political organism, which shares a
common destiny. This is an excellent fruition of the great leader's line of
building a mass party, and it ensures all our victories.
Firmly establishing monolithic ideology and
leadership within the Party is a fundamental principle in the building of our
Party.
Its monolithic ideology and leadership ensure the
durability and vitality of a revolutionary party. Monolithic ideology and
leadership is essential for the unity of idea and purpose within the party and
for its effective leadership of the revolution and construction.
Monolithic ideology and leadership in a party is
best achieved when a distinguished leader guides the party. A leader who is
endowed with great intelligence, outstanding leadership ability and noble
virtue can formulate lines and policies which reflect the masses' desire for
independence and their interests accurately and organize and guide their
creative activities successfully. A party, which does not support its leader's
ideology and guidance or does not inherit his cause, cannot be called a
revolutionary party.
Monolithic ideology and leadership in a party is
guaranteed by centralist discipline, and can be ensured only when the party has
established a centralist work system and order by which all party organizations
and all its members obligatorily implement its lines and policies, and by which
its entire membership acts as one in accordance with the instructions of its
central committee.
The establishment of monolithic ideology and
leadership in a party does not conflict with democracy, but provides a sure
guarantee for genuine democracy. When no such ideology and leadership is
established and unprincipled democracy is permitted within the party, democracy
may be suppressed by bureaucracy and arbitrariness manifested among officials
who lack in party discipline, and the unity and cohesion of the party may be
broken and division encouraged by undesirable elements hidden in the party. The
occurrence of undisciplined practices and disorder and the emergence of
factions in some parties over recent years, which led finally to their
disintegration and collapse, were due in no small measure to the failure to
ensure their monolithic ideology and leadership, resulting from undue emphasis
on "democracy". It is only when monolithic ideology and leadership
are combined properly with democracy in a party that true comradely unity is
achieved among party members, the unity of superiors and subordinates is guaranteed,
and its lines and policies are implemented with success. Making it the basic
principle in Party building to maintain monolithic ideology and leadership, our
Party has established the monolithic ideological and leadership system firmly
among its entire membership and thus has been able to develop and strengthen
itself into an unbreakable, militant organization which thinks and acts as one
under the guidance of the leader. Our experience in Party building shows that
democracy based on unshakable, monolithic ideology and leadership makes it
possible for a party to promote the revolution and construction forcefully by
uniting all its members firmly with one ideology and purpose.
It is our main task in Party building to
strengthen the Party's unity and cohesion. The unity and cohesion of the party
is its lifeblood and the source of its might. The party whose and cohesion is
disrupted cannot maintain its existence. The unity and cohesion of the party is
a prerequisite for achieving the political and ideological unity of the whole
society. The unity of the broad masses behind the party and the leader in their
struggle constitutes the major driving force in the rapid development of
socialist society and is the source of its unconquerable might. The political
and ideological unity of the whole society is inconceivable without the unity
and cohesion of the party. The party is the hard core joining the popular
masses with the leader organizationally and ideologically. In order to achieve
the political and ideological unity of the whole society by rallying the
popular masses firmly behind the leader it is essential, before all else, to
achieve the unity and cohesion of the Party's ranks, the hard core.
The unity and cohesion of the party behind the
leader in ideology and purpose, as well as in morality and loyalty, is the most
durable of unity and cohesion. An association, which is based on, a mere sense
of duty or on business routine cannot last long, nor can it withstand the
severe trials of the revolution. Only solid, single-hearted unity behind the
leader which is based on one ideology and purpose and on loyalty to the
revolution can be unbreakable unity and cohesion that are capable of overcoming
all hardships and trials.
The work of strengthening the unity and cohesion
of the party must be steadily intensified. If we, resting content with the
unity and cohesion of the Party that has been achieved, do not make continued
efforts to consolidate it, the unity and cohesion may be gradually weakened and,
in the long run, destroyed. It is important to launch an effective struggle to
preserve the unity and cohesion of the party, especially when one revolutionary
generation is replaced by another and when the situation, internal and
extremely, is complex. Historical experience shows that in such a situation, ambitious
elements and renegades appear and try to wreck the unity and cohesion of the
Party.
The struggle to maintain the unity and cohesion
of the party is, in the final analysis, a fight against heterogeneous
ideological trends that are detrimental to the unity and cohesion of the party.
The most dangerous of the ideological trends that undermine the party's unity
and cohesion is factionalism and other counterrevolutionary ideological trends.
If we tolerate counterrevolutionary ideological trends within the party, anti-party
groups will be formed on their basis and will destroy the party. In order to
maintain the unity and cohesion of the party, it is also necessary to guard against
parochialism, nepotism and other unsound ideological elements. Parochialism and
nepotism are seeds of factions and, if they are connived at, may grow into
factions and break the unity and cohesion of the party. We must remember that
heterogeneous ideological elements that are harmful to the Party's unity and
cohesion can germinate from the rends of outmoded
ideas or infiltrate from outside, and we must always be vigilant.
Historical experience shows that, if we neglect
the consolidation of the unity and cohesion of the party, in the belief that
the unity and cohesion of the party will not be destroyed in socialist society,
factional forces may appear in the party and challenge the party, in collusion
with counterrevolutionary forces outside the party, and this will incur grave
consequences. Only when we develop the work of consolidating the unity and
cohesion of the party, regarding it as the main task in party building, can we
strengthen and develop its unity and cohesion down through the generators.
Our Party achieved solid unity and cohesion a
long time ago. Not resting content with this, however, it has continued to work
hard to strengthen the single-hearted unity of the whole Party around the
leader, so that it maintains unbreakable unity and cohesion, without any
vacillation even in the present complex situation.
It is the consistent policy of our Party to
stress ideology in party building.
A party is a political organization of people who
are united by a common ideology. Therefore, its ranks should be strengthened
with the main stress on ideology. This means that the party's ranks should be
mad up of people who are loyal to the cause of socialism, judged mainly by how
strong a belief they have in the party's ideology. Only when the party's ranks
are strengthened with people who have a high level of
ideological consciousness and are loyal to the cause of socialism, is it
possible to ensure the party's solid unity in ideology and purpose and its
strong revolutionary character and enhance the vanguard role of party members
in the revolutionary struggle and construction work. Therefore, it is essential
in bulling up the party's rank to judge people mainly and always by their
ideological level and their loyalty to the cause of socialism, while taking
into account their socio-class position and background. Even in a society where
the hostile class has been eliminated and all the members of society have
become socialist working people, the principle of giving priority to ideology
in building up the party's ranks must no be violated. In a socialist society, too,
some people who are not prepared politically and ideologically may possibly
attempt to join the party in pursuit of selfish interests and farm. But such
people are not qualified for party membership and, if they are admitted to the
Party, the dignity and prestige of the party may be damaged and the party
itself be weakened.
In building a party by judging people's
ideological criteria, it is extremely important to form the ranks of cadres
with officials who are infinitely loyal to the party, the leader and the
revolution. Cadres are the backbone of the party; they educate the masses and
direct the revolution. The strength of the party depends largely on the quality
of its cadres. Cadres need to be competent but more importantly, should have a
sound ideology. Loyalty to the party the leader and the revolution is the first
criterion of a cadre. To form the cadre ranks manly on the criterion of loyalty
to the party, the leader and the revolution is a fundamental matter that has a
bearing on the future of the party. The major obstacle to forming the cadre
ranks with the main stress on ideology is the violation of party principles
because of favoritism, personal acquainted and the like in the work of personnel
administration. If party principles are disregarded in personnel administration,
unqualified people may be admitted to the ranks of cadres or even alien
elements may worm their way into them.
With a view to ensuring the purity of the ranks
of cadres, our Party has established strict procedures for the appointment, the
dismissal and the ratification of cadres and has ensured that cadres are
selected and appointed on the basis of collective discussion by the Party
committee and on the principle of unanimous approval. Thus, only
those whose loyalty and ability have been verified in revolutionary practice
have been selected and appointed as cadres. The experience of our Party
shows that only when the ranks of cadres are bullet up mainly on ideological
criteria cans the Party be strengthened organizationally and ideologically and,
on this basis, the cause of the Party be accomplished
down through the generations.
Establishing a monolithic ideology is the major
task of our Party.
The building of socialism and communism is the
process of modeling the whole society on the revolutionary ideology of the
working class. Our Party set the ultimate objective of our revolution to be the
modeling of the whole society on the Juche idea and has work
hard to occupy the ideological and material fatnesses of socialism and
communalism by transforming our ideology, technology and culture to meet the
requirements of Juche.
The main aspect of modeling the whole society on
one ideology is to instill our monolithic theology in all the members of
society. People are the masters of society and a person's value and quality are
defined, and all his activities are regulated, by his ideological consciousness.
Therefore, in order to transform the whole of society on a single ideology, it
is essential, above all else, to educate people and transform their ideology.
People not only transform nature and society but
also reform themse1ves. The ideological transformation of people is also
influenced by changes and developments in the objective conditions of society. In
particular, the change and development of the social system exert a great
influence on the change and deve1opment of ideological consciousness. But a
change in the objective conditions does not bring about that of people's
ideological consciousness spontaneously. Ideological consciousness is
consciousness, which reflects the demands and interests of people and it, has
relative solidity. Unless people work to remold their
ideological consciousness, regardless of changes in the objective circumstances
and conditions, their ideological consciousness will not be transformed.
If we believe that people will acquire the socialist ideology automatically
after the establishment of the socialist system and neglect their ideological
transformation, old ideologies may revive. The transformation of people's
ideological consciousness is more difficult than the reform of the social
relations and the development of the forces of production. The remnants of old
ideologies are very conservative and revive whenever the possibility arises. Ideological
transformation, particularly in confrontation with imperialism, is accompanied
by a serious class struggle. Therefore, we must direct greater efforts to
ideological transformation and give definite Priority to it over all other work.
The ideology with which we should equip the
members of society should be an excellent one. There cannot be a vacuum in
people's ideological consciousness. Unless we have a good ideology that is
superior to the old ideologies we cannot succeed in ideological transformation.
The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung originated the Juche idea and, while leading the
arduous revolutionary struggle for nearly 70 years, has produced a full
clarification of how a revolutionary should live and struggle, setting a fine
example in doing so, and thus Providing us with good ideo-spiritual
wealth for ideological transformation. The revolutionary ideology of the great
leader and the history of his revolutionary struggle are an invaluable textbook
and example for imbuing the whole society with an ideology. The loyalty to the
Party and the leader of our anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners, the heroic
soldiers who fought in the Fatherland Liberation War and the heroes of
socialist revolution and consummation and their devoted service to the country
and the people are also a priceless asset in ideological transformation.
An old ideology does not give way to a good, new
one of its own accord. A good ideology, needless to say, is very attractive. But,
since the imperialists and the reactionaries are playing many tricks in an
attempt to slur the socialist ideology and beautify and embellish the bourgeois
ideology, it is not easy for people to accept an advanced ideology. Only
through a struggle to oppose the reactionary bourgeois ideology and equip the
people with the advanced socialist ideology can they be educated and reformed
along revolutionary lines. It is the most important task for the parties
building socialism to carry out vigorous ideological work to prevent the
penetration of the reactionary bourgeois ideology and equip people with the
socialist ideology. Only when the revolutionary parties conduct good
ideological work to overcome the reactionary bourgeois ideas of all hues and arm
people with the advanced socialist ideology can they firmly guarantee the
victory of the socialist ideology and succeed in imbuing the whole society with
it.
For the ideological transformation of the whole
society the party must give priority to the ideological education of its
members. In other words, a party must educate its members first and then make
them educate the hard core of the masses who, in turn, will educate the broad
masses. The education of the hard core of the masses by party members and the
education of the broad masses by the hard core of the masses is an effective
method of educating and transforming all the member of society, with one person
educating ten people, ten people a hundred, a hundred People a thousand, and a
thousand people ten thousand. A party member is a political activist by nature
and it is the duty of a party member to conduct political work to educate and
transform the masses. When a party refuses to give precedence to the
ideological education of its members they cannot do their duty as political
activists and may degenerate ideologically. It cannot be said that the traitors
to the revolution who appeared in some socialist ruling parties were anti-socialist
from the first. The parties neglected the revolutionary education and tempering
of their cadres and member, with the result that some people gradually
degenerated and became traitors. In the light of this lesson we must always pay
primary attention to the revolutionary education and tempering of cadres and
Party members.
In order to succeed in the ideological temping of
Party members we must lead them to live a good Party life. A Party life is a
furnace for ideological tempering. When party member fail to lead a party life
and leave the control of their party organizations they may become liberal and
degenerate ideologically. Proceeding from their need of political integrity
party members must participate voluntarily in a party life. Our Party has
established a well-regulated system for a Party life, which enables its members
to raise their political integrity and fulfill their duties through lead a
Party life. Our Party has led all its organizations to guarantee proper
organization and guidance so that their members lead a Party life consciously
and faithfully in compliance with Party rues, having a correct view of their
Party organization, and temper themselves steadily in a revolutionary way
through leading a Party life.
Ideology is reformed through ideological
education and an ideological struggle. Ideological education is work to equip
people with revolutionary ideas; it requires a certain system and definite
forms and methods. Our Party has established a well-knit system of ideological
education within itself and has run it regularly. It has steadily improved the
forms and methods of ideological education as required by the developing
situation. The ideological struggle is an important form of ideological
transformation that is through criticism; criticism is a tonic for preventing
ideological sickness. Our Party has established a sound atmosphere for
criticism within itself so that an ideological struggle is conducted through
criticism to temper the cadres and its members on revolutionary lines.
For the ideological transformation of the whole
society the Party must also educate the masses responsibly. Equipping them with
the consciousness of independence and awakening them ideologically manifest the
greatest love for the people, and the most serious crime against the people is
to paralyze their consciousness of independence and make them ideologically
degenerate. The responsible education of the popular masses by a party is an
expression of its boundless love for them.
Party organizations should guide all its cadres
and members to conduct political work widely among the masses, while at the
same time mating the masses through working people's organizations. Conducting
work with the masses through working people's organizations is our Party's
principle in guiding the masses. The proper guidance of those organizations is
an important duty of the socialist ruling party, which is the political
leadership organization of society. Working people's organizations must work
independently, but they should not be left without the guidance of the working-class
party. It is the working-class party that represents the interests of the
popular masses most thoroughly in socialist society. So the working people's
organizations must always conduct their activities in accorded with the party's
lines and policies. The "independence" of the working people's
organizations that means freedom from the leadership of the party eventually
reduces the working people's organizations to a tool for the
counterrevolutionary forces. The socialist ruling party must give correct
guidance to the working people's organizations so that they conduct the work of
educating and refunding the masses of all strata independency, creatively and
skillfully, in accidence with their duties and character as organizations for
ideological education. The party's norms for an organizational and ideological
life should serve as an example of the organizational and ideological life in
the working people's organizations. But, unlike the party that is composed of
advanced elements of the working people, the working people's organizations are
mass organizations, which embrace the broad masses. As every working people's
organization has its own characteristics, its organizational and ideological
life should be arranged accordingly.
The fundamental method of mass education is
explanation and persuasion. People's ideology cannot be reformed by
administrative orders or by coercive methods. People should be encouraged to
accept the ideology as their faith through explanation and persuasion. Officials
should always explain to the masses and try to persuade them steadily and
patiently. Influencing People by positive examples is an effective method of
educating them. The affirmative is the progressive and beautiful things that
meet the demands of people for independence, so they exert a great influence on
people. Support for the affirmative is a criticism of the negative, and shows
People the ways of overcoming the negative. Our Party's experience shows that
there is no one who cannot be educated and reformed if we conduct explanation
and persuasion and influence people properly by positive examples in education.
Great efforts should be directed particularly to
the education of the younger generation in the education of the masses. The
oldest generation of the revolution should pass down to the younger generation
great revolutionary spirit and creative ability. Of course, material wealth
should be handed down to the younger generation, but however much martial
wealth they may inherit, they will misuse it if they lack revolutionary spirit
and creative ability. In those countries where capitalism has revived, many
young people took the lead in opposing socialism. This was due to their parties'
failure to guide them properly. It is an important duty for socialist ruling
parties to educate the younger generation on revolutionary lines so that they
firmly defend the socialist system and continue to work for the revolution and
accomplish the cause. Historical lesson shows clearly that when the younger
generation is not educated in a revolutionary way the revolutionary gains
achieved at the cost of blood are lost.
Today in our country the young people are working
with devotion to develop socialism further under the leadership of the Party, and
all the young people and children are growing up as dependable successors to
the revolution. This shows that the leadership of our Party, which has put
great effort into the education of the rising generation, is absolutely correct.
But we should not rest content with the successes, which have been achieved in
the education of the younger generation; we should train them more as redoubles
of a Juche type.
It is the basic mission of our Party to guarantee
its political leadership of the whole society.
The revolutionary working class party in socialist
society is charged with the mission of assuming responsibility for the destiny
of the people, forging it and providing independent and creative lives for them.
If the party is to fulfill its mission it should ensure its political
leadership in politics, the economy, culture, national defense and all other
spheres. The party's responsibility for the destiny of the people is
inseparable from its leading position. The revolutionary party's renunciation
of its leading position and role is the evasion of its responsibility for the
destiny of the people. It is the fundamental direction in the building of a
socialist ruling party to entrance the leading position and role of the party
so that it can fully ensure its political leadership over the whole society.
The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung wisely guided our Party to strengthen its
position as the political leader of society and enhance its role as such. Our
people recognize only the Workers' Party of Korea as their political leader and
entrust their destiny entirely to the Party, and they are full of a firm
determination to complete the revolutionary cause of Juche under the leadership
of the Party.
The leadership of a revolutionary party to the
revolution and construction should be political leadership.
First of all, the party should draw up correct
policies. The lines and policies of a revolutionary party should accurately
reflect the masses' desire for independence and their interests and, to this
end, the party should heed their aspirations and demands. Our Party has
believed in the popular masses as its teacher, always mixed with the masses, listened
to them and shaped its policies to reflect their demands and interests. As a
result, our Party has been able to avoid deviations to right or left in farming
its lines and policies, and our Party's policies have commanded the full
support of the popular masses. The party should not only draw up correct
policies but also lead its organizations to carry out its policies thoroughly. An
important duty for party organizations at all levels is to organize, control
and guide the execution of party policies. When party organizations implement
party policies correctly, they can translate them into reality so as to promote
the revolution and construction.
The party should give priority to political work
in all its activities so as to give full play to the revolutionary enthusiasm
and creative ability of the popular masses. It is an intrinsic demand of
socialist society to give precedence to political work in all activities. The
revolutionary enthusiasm and creative ability of the working people who are
masters of state and society can be brought into full play only by political
methods. The capitalist method of motivating people by coercion or money, which
is contrary to the intrinsic nature of socialist society, not only cannot give
full play to their revolutionary enthusiasm and creative ability but also
results in the degeneration of the socialist system itself only the method of
giving full rein to the revolutionary enthusiasm and creative ability of the
popular masses by giving priority to political work is a revolutionary method
of strengthening the socialist system and giving full play to its advantages. By
giving precedence to political work in all its activities our Party has been
able to promote the revolution and construction dynamically in reliance on the
high revolutionary enthusiasm and creative ability of the popular masses, and
to give full play to the advantages of the socialism of our own style which is
centered on the popular masses.
The embodiment of the revolutionary mass line is
the consistent policy of our Party in its leadership of the revolution and
construction.
The revolutionary mass line is a principle of
activity, based on the view that the driving force of the revolution and
construction is the popular masses. The fundamental demand of the revolutionary
mass line is to ensure that the popular masses hold the position of masters of
the revolution and construction and fulfill their role as such. The
revolutionary party, which represents the interests of the popular masses and
serves them must make the revolutionary mass line the fundamental principle of
its activities and thoroughly implement the revolutionary mass line throughout
the whole course of the struggle for socialism.
If the revo1utionary mass line is to be
implemented thoroughly in the archives of the party, the method and style of
work of officials should be improved steadily. Officials,
and the masses' establish the connation between the parties and the masses
support for and trust in the party largely depend on the officials' method and
style of work. In socialist society some ill-prepared officials may throw their
weight about and act bureaucratically. Essentially, wielding power and acting
bureaucratically is a ruling method of the old society for oppressing and
exploring the people. As experience shows, if officials abuse their power and
resort to bureaucracy, they will cause the divorce of the party and the masses,
and may finally bring the party to ruin. To struggle uncompromisingly against
the abuse of power and bureaucracy is important work, which the socialist
ruling party should not neglect even for a moment.
Since changes of generation take place in the
ranks of cadres and the proportion of officials who are not amply tempered in
the revolution increases, we have continued to pay great attention to the
elimination of outmoded work methods and styles. Under the slogan, "We
serve the people!" our Party has guided all our officials to serve the
people faithfully and strengthen their kindred relations with the popular
masses. As a consequence, our officials have established the revolutionary work
method and popular work style whereby they defend the interests of the popular
masses, go among them and work in reliance on them, share good time and bad
with them, and lead the masses by setting them examples. Our people's strong
support for and faith in our Party is the fruition of its revolutionary mass
line that it has implemented thoroughly in its activities, and of its
unremitting efforts to ensure that officials establish the revolutionary work
method and the popular work style.
We must apply more thoroughly the Juche theory on
the building of the Party, whose validity and vitality have been demonstrated
fully in parched, and thus constantly strengthen our Party and complete the
revolutionary cause of Juche under its leadership.
Strengthening internationalist unity and
solidarity with revolutionary parties is an important demand for our Party in
discharging its national and internationalist duties.
The basic task of a revolutionary party is to
provide independence for the popular masses. Their cause for independence is
not only national but also the common cause of humanity, and the struggle to
realize the independence of the popular masses in each county is closely
related to the struggle to make the whole word independent. An independent world
is a word, which is free from domination and subjugation and intervention and
pressure and in which all countries, and nations exercise complete sovereignty
as the masters of their destiny. With the promotion of global independence a
favorable international climate is created for the independent development of
all countries and nations. Meanwhile, victory in the struggle for the
independence of the popular masses in each country reinforces the independent
forces of the world and thus accelerates global independence. In league with
one another, the imperialists and the reactionary forces of all shades are
impeding the fulfillment of the independent cause of the popular masses, and
the internationally united reactionary forces are challenging it. This makes it
absolutely necessary for all the revolutionary parties and people aspiring
after independence to unite and fight against them.
The people of the world are joining the common
struggle because they share the same goal and task of struggling for independence.
¡°People of the word advocating independence, unite!¡±-This is the slogan to be
held up by all the people of our era.
If all the people advocating independence are to
unite and wage a struggle, first of all the internationalist unity and
solidarity of the revolutionary parties, their hard core, should be
strengthened.
Strengthening internationalist unity and
solidarity in the fulfillment of the cause of independence for the popular
masses is an important factor in its triumph. The struggle for the victory of
this cause is now going through an ordeal. But if they strengthen their
solidarity with one another, unite in a comradely manner and fight on, the
revolutionary parties of the world will be able to check and frustrate the
counterrevolutionary offensive by the imperialists and reactionaries who are
opposed to independence, and to pave the way to victory.
The internationalist unity and solidarity of the
revolutionary parties should be realized on the basis of the socialist idea. A
revolutionary party that is devoid of the socialist idea is inconceivable and
unity and solidarity between the parties that are not based on the socialist
idea cannot be called genuinely revolutionary unity and solidarity. The aim of
strengthening the internationalist unity and solidarity is not self-serving; it
is to achieve in a combined effort the common cause of socialism. It is a
bounden duty for revolutionary parties to unite firmly on the basis of the
socialist idea.
The Pyongyang Declaration reflects a firm determination
to defend and promote the cause of socialism. Its publication is of epochal
significance in strengthening the internationalist unity and solidarity of the
revolutionary parties and in promoting the socialist cause.
The Pyongyang Declaration has affirmed that
socialism is the ideal of mankind and that socialist society is a society, which
represents the future of mind, and a genuine society for the people. Although
the socialist idea is the ideology of the working class, it does not represent
the interests of one class alone; it is a universal idea for humanity, which
reflects the social nature of human beings. Socialism is not only an idea for
class emancipation but also an idea for national and human liberation, which
reflects the desire for independence of all nations and the whole of humanity. Only
when they advance along the road of socialism where the popular masses are the
masters of everything and everything serves them, can all the people lead a
free, equitable and dignified life that is suited to the independent nature of
human beings and can all countries and nations free themselves from domination
and subjugation, achieve independent development and ensure lasting Peace and
security in the word, thus guaranteeing the survival and Progress of humanity.
By confirming the veracity and validity of the
cause of socialism and the inevitability of its final victory, the Pyongyang
Declaration is infusing the revolutionary people of the word who aspire after
independence with confidence in victory and a revolutionary fighting spirit, while
representing a serious setback for the imperialists and reactionaries who are
waging a frantic anti-socialist campaign, talking about the "end" of
socialism.
The fact that well over a hundred parties have
signed the Pyongyang Declaration and that the revolutionary people around the
word are responding to it proves irrefutably that the socialist idea contained
in the Pyongyang Declaration reflects the desires and aspirations of
progressive humanity. The revolutionary parties will be able to strengthen
their internationalist unity and solidarity based on the common idea and
dynamically promotes the cause of socialism when they wage a struggle with the
Pyongyang Declaration as their common fighting programmed.
The internationalist unity and solidarity of the
revolutionary parties must be achieved on the basis of independence. There is
no need to establish an imitational center of leadership since each country is
conducting the revolution under different circumstances and conditions and the
party of each country is acting independently. The revolutionary parties will
achieve genuinely internationalist unity only when they establish a comradely
relationship on the basis of independence and equality instead of a relationship
in which one is higher and the other lower and one dictates and the other is
dictated to. It is impermissible in their relationship for revolutionary
parties to interfere in the affairs of others and to force their opinions on
the other, contrary to the Principles of independence and internationalism.
An urgent, common task facing the revolutionary
parties at present is to defend socialism from the counterrevolutionary
offensive of the imperialists and reactionaries.
The imperialists and reactionaries are now
engaged in vicious maneuver against socialism, but they are destined to be a
failure. The revolutionary partied and people the world over are turning out in
a new struggle, overweening the temper confusion. It is inevitable for the
masses of people to fight against a force if it represses their independence, and
the cause of socialism emerges victorious through this struggle. This is a law
governing historical development. The imperialists are now behaving arrogantly,
but they are in a serious crisis. As the monopolies grow, the reactionary, anti-popular
character of modem imperialism becomes mere evident and the discontent of the
working people with the corrupt and ailing capitalist society grows as the days
go by. The dasher to build an independent, new world under the ideal of
independence, Peace and fiendish is becoming more intense among the Progressive
people of the world. Although socialism is undergoing an ordeal, these people
can change a disadvantageous situation into a favorable one and turn misfortune
into a blessing, if they counter the counterrevolutionary offensive of the
imperialists and reactionaries with a revolutionary offensive, full of
confidence in victory.
Now that the imperialists and reactionaries are
concentrating the spearhead of their attack on the socialist countries Which
are faithful to revolutionary principles, it is very important for all the
revolutionary parties and people to unite and strengthen their internationalist
support for and solidarity with the socialist countries. Frustrating the
criminal maneuver of the imperialists and reactionaries to isolate, blockade
and invade the socialist countries is a common, urgent task for the
revolutionary parties and people in their struggle to safeguard socialism.
The imperialists and reactionaries are resorting
to every manner of trickery to prevent socialism from reviving in the former
socialist countries. This is a scheme to bring the people of these countries
under the yoke of domination and subjugation forever. A catastrophic crisis has
been created in the countries where capitalism has revived owing to the
criminal moves of the imperialists and reactionaries. The crisis these
countries are now faced with is not a crisis of socialism but a crisis of
revived capitalism, and it shows the irrelevance of the idea of bourgeois
revival. The resurgence of socialism is the only way out of the political, economic,
ideological and moral confusion and crisis, which are becoming more serious
with every passing day in the countries where capitalism has revived.
The imperialists are resorting to every
conceivable heinous plot to hold in check the advance towards socialism of the
people of those countries which were subjected to national oppression and
exploitation in the past and which have now embarked on the building of a new
society. This is aimed at preventing them from taking the road to independence.
Fighting against the imperialists' moves for trampling downs their rights to
independence and for strengthening neocolonial exploitation and plunder of them
is an important link in the whole chain of the common struggle for socialism.
In the developed capitalist countries, bipolarization,
¡°the rich getting ever richer and the poor ever poorer¡±, is intensifying and
confrontation is growing, with the social evil becoming more serious owing to
the strengthening of monopolies. Accordingly, the oppressed working masses are
turning out in the struggle, lifting up their voices calling for the rights to
existence, boy and independence.
The victorious advance of the common cause of
socialism will be further accelerated when the revolutionary parties and
peoples give active support and encouragement to those parties and peoples that
are waging an undaunted struggle for socialism under various circumstances and
conditions.
It is an important task for the revolutionary
parties to form a united front with the democratic political parties and
organizations in the struggle to accomplish the cause of socialism. In the
implementation of the socialist ideal of opposing exploitation and oppression
and realizing the independence of the popular masses, the revolutionary parties,
and democratic parties and organizations share similar demands and interests. The
socialist cause will be promoted if the revolutionary parties strengthen their
unity with all the democratic parties and organizations and cooperate with them
actively on the Principle of mutual respect in the joint struggle for the
independence of the popular masses in opposition to exploitation and oppression.
If the independence of the popular masses is to
be realized, a dyadic anti-imperialist struggle should be launched. The main
target of the struggle to defend socialism and achieve global independence is
the
The driving force of the struggle to make the
whole word independent is the combined anti-imperialist, independent force. The
anti-imperialist, independent forces must unite so as to put an end to
domination and subordination and interference and pressure by the imperialists,
to establish a fair international order based on independence, to eliminate
aggression and war and to ensure world peace and security. The imperialists are
using all sorts of crafty maneuver to divide the anti-imperialist, independent
forces and set them at variance with one another. The anti-imperialist, independent
forces can frustrate the imperialists' maneuver for division and alienation and
emerge victorious only when they counter their schemes with the strategy of unity.
The anti-imperialist, independent forces can unite, transcending differences in
social systems, political views, ideas and religious beliefs, nations and races
because they have a common desire for independence, peace and fiendish.
Should all the anti-imperialist, independent
forces, including the socialist countries, the international communist and
working-class movements, the national-liberation movement, the Non-aligned
Movement and the world peace movement, unite in the struggle they can put an
end to imperialist diminution and interference and build an independent, new
world.
The cause of independence, the cause of socialism,
of the popular masses is a sacred one for making the ideal of humanity the
reality. To unite and struggle for the victory of the cause of independence, the
cause of socialism, of the popular masses is the revolutionary parties' honorable
duty to history and their peoples. The current complex and difficult situation
makes it necessary for the revolutionary parties to fight resolutely in firm
unity, filled with a conviction in victory and an indefatigable revolutionary
parties across the world for the victory of the cause of independence, the
cause of socialism, of the popular masses, and will discharge its noble mission
and responsibility for the Korean revolution and the world revolution.