The Juche idea and the concept of the leader in the working class movement

The Juche idea and the concept of the leader in the working class movement.
I think I shall start with the words of comrade Kim Jong Il from his “Establishing the Juche outlook on the revolution”.
“The essence of the leader in all contexts lies in his being the centre of the life of the socio-political community. There is no doubt that the centre of life is important for the existence and activities of the organism. Unless the masses are united, centring on the leader, they cannot acquire vitality as an independent socio-political community. We must understand and believe that the leader is the centre of the life of the socio-political community and that it is only when we are linked to the leader organizationally, ideological and as comrades that we can acquire immortal socio-political integrity.”
I think these lines explain perfectly for the first time in our movement’s history why it is necessary to bind the toiling masses with the leader of the working class movement. Without a leader of magnitude the masses are left as a child is without a father and all their efforts to over throw capitalism and then to build socialism will be made ten times harder.
Our movements history has been full of good and bad leaders. Marx was the first great leader of the working classes, followed by Lenin then Stalin, then the two great Kim’s of Korea. Every working class of every country at one time or another will have or has had great communist leaders. The masses adoration of these great people is no surprise. These people are the only ones capable of moulding a working class vanguard party who can over throw the ruling and oppressing capitalist class. Once this has happened the strength of a great leader loved by the masses is even more necessary to rally the masses round him to fend off the attacks of the old order on the new dictatorship of the proletariat. Without the gelling qualities of such a leader the revolution will fail.
Just as important is the task of socialist building and in this hard but gratifying time for the masses the role of the leader of the party and state is greatly important. Without the socio-political binding skills of the leader of the revolution the masses could loose faith quickly and fall back into old ways and habits under the influence of enemies of the revolution.
Why has the Korean revolution been so successful? Because the Juche idea perfectly explains that with out a great leader and the masses respect and love for him the working class movement will fall into disrepute.
Let us take a few historical examples: After the death of the great comrade J.Stalin revisionists usurped power from the Soviet people and began a slander campaign about the great leader who built and defended socialism in the USSR so well. The revisionists no doubt wanted to bring socialism to an end in the USSR and in 1991 their dream came true. The die was cast in 1956 and set off a rot. The “Secret speech” gave the enemies of the revolution all the ammunition they needed to take socialism apart in the USSR. As comrade Mao Zedong put it “The Russians have thrown down one of the great swords of Marxism-Leninism, how long will it be before they throw down the other? (Lenin).” As it happened not so long ago.
I would now like to quote comrade Kim Jong Il again, this time from his “Let us advance under the banner of Marxism-Leninism and the Juche idea”
“If Marx, the first leader of the working class, had not founded Marxism for the international working class, they would have groped in the darkness, not knowing their historic mission, nor could they have triumphed in their revolutionary struggles. If Lenin had not advanced Leninism, the theory, strategy and tactics of the proletarian revolution in the age of imperialism, and aroused the Russian working class to struggle, the first socialist state in the world could never happened.”
Here we have in a nutshell what has been written above. With out these leaders the working class would never have begun to understand their truly revolutionary role in history. The revisionists and enemies of our cause throw at us words like “personality cults” but what the bourgeoisie understand to well is that the masses genuinely love these leaders and this terrifies the bourgeois. They know that with a strong and able leader that the working masses can easily topple them.
The Juche idea has explained to us for the first time why the communist movement needs a strong and loved leader. The Juche idea alone has refuted the claims of the revisionists about “personality cults” and so on. We all know now that without such great leaders as we have had that we would not have achieved what we have as a class. We see the situation in our country today and we see the working class getting sick of the corrupt capitalist system but where are the leaders? We have a few lackey Trotskyites who delight in nothing more than confusing the masses, we have a toothless trade union leadership and a Labour party more concerned with sucking up to the bosses than the people.
The Korean people have a truly great helmsman who is keeping the DPRK on a strong socialist path. We must learn from the example of the great comrade Kim Jong Il and the Korean people if we are to live up to the aspirations of the working masses of the world