30 years ago on the 25th of December comrade KIM JONG IL published the work ' "Respecting the Forerunners of the Revolution is a Noble Moral Obligation of Revolutionaries” which expounded in a most lucid fashion the idea of respecting the revolutionary forerunners.
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30 years ago the situation was different to now ; socialism had been frustrated in many countries such as the USSR . The imperialists and bourgeoisie were crowing over these defeats and reverses as well as attacking previous revolutionary leaders such as Lenin and Stalin . I can remember at the time how some people instead of blaming revisionism and opportunism for the collapse of socialism they instead blamed Stalin ! This shows the influence of not only bourgeois propaganda but also Trotskyite and revisionist lies .
The situation was summed up well by comrade KIM JONG IL who wrote in the work “The history of the world socialist movement provides the serious lesson that a revolution advances victoriously when revolutionary forefathers are respected and their accomplishments are preserved and developed, and that a revolution is abandoned and frustrated when revolutionary predecessors are betrayed and their accomplishments are negated. In several countries that had built socialism in the past, opportunists occupying the leadership of the parties and states defamed their revolutionary predecessors and obliterated their achievements. In consequence of their traitorous acts, the reputation of communists has been damaged, the image of socialism clouded, and the socialist system itself has ended in collapse”
Comrade KIM JONG IL defined carrying forward the ideas of the revolutionary forerunners as being essential for victoriously carrying out the revolution and leading it to final victory . He wrote that " Establishing a correct viewpoint and attitude towards revolutionary seniors is most important for the development of the socialist movement.
Only when the red flag of the revolution raised by the revolutionary forerunners is carried forward down through generations can the cause of independence for the popular masses, the socialist cause, emerge victorious."
The experience of the international communist movement and socialist countries proved that is very true . In the USSR Khruschov had attacked Stalin , three years after he passed away , causing great damage to the cause of socialism not only in the USSR but the whole world . Similar things happened in a number of other socialist countries with the result that socialism collapsed or went off the rails in quite a few countries which gladdened the imperialists but caused despair to the world revolutionary peoples aspiring after socialism . As comrade KIM JONG IL explained “Historically, in opposing socialism, imperialists and renegades from the revolution have directed their attacks on the leaders of the working class and the revolutionaries of the preceding generation. This is because socialism was pioneered and has triumphed thanks to the guidance of the leader and the self-sacrificing struggle of the revolutionaries of the preceding generations, and because the dignity of socialism is associated with their honour. Modern revisionists and socialist renegades have caused socialism to degenerate and collapse by disgracing the leader and their revolutionary elders and by obliterating their exploits. The process of the degeneration and collapse of socialism began with the emergence of modern revisionism, which vilified the leader and revolutionary pioneers and distorted and debased the revolutionary ideas of the working class. Because of modern revisionists, socialism began to go off the track and crumble from within. Its collapse was due to the policy of “reform” and “restructuring”, pursued by socialist renegades who denied and obliterated every historical achievement of socialism. Opportunists and socialist renegades slandered the leaders of the working class and debased the sacred revolutionary struggle and great revolutionary achievements of their revolutionary predecessors. They destroyed socialism and revived capitalism. This is a most despicable counterrevolutionary crime that betrayed the revolution under the pressure of imperialism, an immoral perfidy that discarded loyalty to the revolution and trampled underfoot elementary human morals. Traitors to the revolution left no stone unturned in slandering and defaming their revolutionary predecessors. Thus they created ideological vacillation and confusion among the people and gave the imperialists and reactionaries the chance to slander the communists and socialism even more viciously.”
In the work, comrade KIM JONG IL says that the ideas and cause of comrade KIM IL SUNG, the great leader of the Korean people and founder of modern Korea , should be upheld . At the time he stressed the importance from the standpoint of internationalism , of upholding revolutionary forerunners throughout the world and pays high tribute to Marx, Engels , Lenin and Stalin saying that “Our Party and people respect Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin as the leaders of the working class and speak highly of their distinguished services. Reflecting the demands and aspirations of the working class, Marx and Engels, the first leaders of the working class, developed socialism from a Utopian concept to a science and started the socialist and communist movement. Lenin inherited and developed Marxism to meet the change in the times and won the victory of the October Socialist Revolution by organizing and mobilizing the working class. Stalin, succeeding to the cause of Lenin, built the first young socialist state into a world power and defended the socialist fatherland from the fascist invasion, leading the army and the people.”
Today in the DPRK the legacy of Marx , Engels , Lenin and Stalin is upheld .Visiting the Central Cadres Training School of the Workers Party of Korea I witnessed large portraits of Marx and Lenin were displayed . Not only were the portraits of Marx and Lenin displayed but we were told that the school gives lectures in Marxism-Leninism and that respected Marshal KIM JONG UN himself actually attended a lecture on Marxism -Leninism .Some ultra leftists and revisionists as well bourgeois hostile elements have falsely asserted that the DPRK had “deleted all reference to Marxism -Leninism “ . This is clearly untrue !
Moreover Marshal KIM JONG UN also instructed that Red flags should be placed in lecture rooms so as to represent the communist ideology of the Workers Party of Korea . I also noticed that at the Party Foundation Museum portraits of Marx, Engels , Lenin and Stalin were displayed there when I visited it . Only two days before we visited the Museum Marshal KIM JONG UN himself visited the Museum and there was an image on Korean Central TV of him with a portrait of JV Stalin behind him.
Another significant feature of the work is that Comrade KIM JONG IL rightly stresses communist morality . This demolishes the incorrect view held by some communists in the West that communism has nothing to do with morality and is only economic. Comrade KIM JONG IL incisively says "Moral hypocrisy is the true nature of the exploiting class, and moral corruption is an inevitable product of the bourgeois society." This is indeed so very true .
To conclude this work . ' Respecting the Forerunners of the Revolution is a Noble Moral Obligation of Revolutionaries ' , is a very valuable work and is a relevant now as it was 30 years ago . We urge a deep study of it .
Dr Dermot Hudson Chairman British Group For the Study of the Juche Idea
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