Victory in the cause of socialism
depends on how to build the party which leads it and enhance its
leading role.
The experiences of the Workers’
Party of Korea are a clear testimony to this.
The WPK has solved all the
problems arising in Party building and activities in an independent
manner.
It faced many pressure and
interventions of outside forces in the course of its development, but
never abandoned its line of independence. It has consistently
conducted Party building and activities on its own way, victoriously
advancing the socialist cause in conformity with its people’s
requirements and actual conditions of the country by overcoming all
trials of history.
It is natural that such a party
enjoys absolute trust and support of the people. The Korean people
have regarded the Party’s ideology as their own and followed its
leadership with one mind and purpose placing absolute trust in it.
There are many parties in the
world. However, it is hard to find such a party like the WPK which is
strong in organizational and ideological foundations and in mass
foundations, and which ensures thorough establishment of monolithic
ideology and leadership. The WPK has consolidated and elevated its
position as a socialist ruling party by properly conducting Party
building and activities. Thanks to it, when some countries derailed
from the socialist line, the Korean people advanced along the road of
socialism without the slightest vacillation, and when the imperialist
allied forces tried to stamp out socialism once and for all on the
planet, the world progressive political parties got together in
Pyongyang and made public a joint declaration Let
Us Defend and Advance the Cause of Socialism.
Frustration of socialism in some
countries at the end of last century left a serious historical lesson
that if a party failed to conduct properly its building and
activities, it could not maintain its existence and accomplish the
cause of socialism. In those days, not a few parties failed to keep
independent standpoint and revolutionary principles in their party
building and activities, weakening their organizational and
ideological foundations. Consequently, the renegades of socialism
held its hegemony and openly forced their anti-revolutionary lines.
It created ideological unrest within the party, and the number of
toadies to the renegades increased. Owing to deterioration of the
party, socialism, in the end, crumbled like a wet mud wall.
The experience of the WPK’s and
serious lessons of several countries prove that, the key to victory
of socialism entirely depends on party building and its activities.
Kim Il Sung (1912-1994) and Kim
Jong Il (1942-2011), eternal leaders of socialist Korea, provided the
Korean people with the key to the victory of socialist cause.
Kim Il Sung, founder of the WPK,
opened up a new era of building a revolutionary party in the era of
independence. He founded a revolutionary party of a new type based on
the Juche idea, and, while leading it, advanced an original theory of
Party building and systematized it in an all-round way.
The problem to be solved before
anything else in party building is how to form the party. Many
countries of the world founded their parties by proclaiming the party
centre first. But he went deep among the people with an unshakable
faith that they are the motive force of revolution and laid the basis
of the party founding by setting up basic party organizations.
Therefore, in Korea during the arduous anti-Japanese revolutionary
struggle for achieving the country’s liberation the hard core of
the Party was prepared and unity and cohesion of the ranks in
thinking and purpose centred on the leader were achieved.
Based on the solid organizational
and ideological foundations, the Workers’ Party of Korea was
founded on October 10, 1945 soon after the country’s liberation on
August 15, 1945.
Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il,
great leaders of the Korean people strengthened and developed the WPK
as a dignified socialist ruling party which took deep root in the
broad masses and enjoyed their absolute support.
They built the WPK into a party
which represents the interests of the people and has struck its root
deep in them as required by the reality in which socialism has become
an aspiration and ideal of the broad masses of the people and the
social and class foundations of socialism were consolidated as solid
as a rock. Under their leadership the WPK was built into a mass party
which embraces all strata of the working masses including the working
class, peasants and intellectuals.
When the ruling parties in
several socialist countries became degenerate and this resulted in
the collapse of socialism at the end of last century, Kim Jong Il,
eternal General Secretary of the WPK, made public several works such
as On the Fundamentals
of Revolutionary Party Building
and provided correct answers to a series of theoretical and practical
questions arising in Party building and activities. His works are a
valuable guiding principle and textbook that enable the revolutionary
parties to perform their missions and roles, however complicated the
situation may be.
The immortal feats Kim Il Sung
and Kim Jong Il accomplished in Party building and activities are
brilliantly carried forward by Kim Jong Un, First Secretary of the
WPK.
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