The great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG was a seasoned and
stalwart veteran revolutionary who had fought against imperialism-Japanese and
US- from the age of 14 till the last moments of his life and adhered to revolutionary principles
throughout his career . When the modern revisionists and traitors like
Gorbachov abandoning socialist principles
throwing the Red flag down on the ground
President KIM IL SUNG instead stuck to socialist principles and held
high the Red flag.
The great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG had consistently opposed any
backtrackingor dilution of revolutionary principles . He opposed modern
revisionism when it first appeared on the scene.As Comrade
KIM IL SUNG said:
KIM IL SUNG said:
"In 1955, therefore, our Party set forth the definite
policy of establishing Juche, and has been persistently urging an energetic
ideological struggle to carry it through ever since. The year 1955 marked a
turning point in our Party's consistent struggle against dogmatism. It was also
at that time, in fact, that we started our struggle against modern revisionism
that had emerged within the socialist camp. Our struggle against dogmatism was
thus linked up with the struggle against modern revisionism".
(KIM IL SUNG: 'On Juche in Our Revolution'; p. 471).
Comrade KIM IL SUNG in his famous and celebrated work 'On
Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work'
(December 23rd, 1955), pointed out that a faction within the WPK, on returning
from a visit to the Soviet Union, had demanded that Korea should drop its
slogan against US imperialism on the grounds the USSR was following the line of
easing international tension. This was an early manifestation of attempts by
factionalists within the WPK to spread revisionism.
It was in 1956 that things reached a very critical stage.
Khrushchov, the chief of the modern revisionists had made his speech to the
20th Congress of the CPSU heralding the onset of modern revisionism and the
imperialists launched a fierce international anticommunist campaign. Within
Korea, the Syngman Rhee puppet regime went wild, talking of a 'March North'.
The DPRK had only just completed the post-war reconstruction and rehabilitation
of the economy after the devastation caused by the war. The factionalists who
had been lurking in the WPK seized the chance to try and overthrow the
leadership with the backing of outside revisionists. Indeed the CPSU fraternal
delegate to the 3rd Congress of the WPK
made a veiled attack on the WPK leadership. Events came to a head in
August, when the factionalists tried to stage their coup under the manipulation
of the great power chauvinists and revisionists. Their aim was to deny the
Party's leadership role and paralyse the dictatorship of the proletariat. They
also wished to stamp out the revolutionary conditions of the WPK forged in the
flames of the anti-Japanese armed struggle. They even intended to proclaim
Korea a pro-American 'neutral nation'. However, Comrade Kim Il Sung led the
people to smash the anti-Party counter-revolutionary factional clique. The WPK
launched internally an anti-factional, anti-revisionist struggle. Comrade KIM IL SUNG attacked factionalism and revisionism at a Party Conference on March 6
1958. Referring to factionalism, he said:
"No faction is better or worse than any other. All come
from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the
working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the
working class movement in Korea".
(KIM IL SUNG 'On Juche in Our Revolution', Volume 1; p. 209).
Speaking of revisionism, Comrade KIM IL SUNG said:
"The imperialists and their servants the revisionists
are now spreading revisionism in opposition to Marxism-Leninism and the
communist movement. . . . It has made and is making inroads into our country
too, and the anti-Party groups have exported it for their own ends. . . . To
reject our Party's leadership means precisely to deny the revolution and
capitulate to capitalism. Therefore it is necessary not only to fight against
the revisionists who reject Party leadership, but also to combat relentlessly
all the unsettling elements that provide good soil for revisionism". (KIM IL SUNG'On
Juche in Our Revolution', p. 213-14).
Speaking to soldiers of the 109th Army of the KPA on the
25th August 1960, Comrade
KIM IL SUNG stated:
"Revisionists refashion Marxism-Leninism. They laud
th emselves as cleverer Marxist-Leninists than Marx or Lenin. Certain countries
have this tendency. Some people insist we must peacefully co-exist with the
Yankees. How can we do so without opposing US imperialism?" (KIM IL SUNG'On Juche in
Our Revolution', p. 225).
In the early 60s, Comrade KIM IL SUNG made the struggle of
the WPK against modern revisionism a major priority in the Party. He attacked
modern revisionism at the 4th Congress. At the March 8 1962 3rd plenary meeting
of the CC, Comrade KIM IL SUNG defined the strengthening of the struggle
against revisionism as a key task in Party work. He also with great clarity
elucidated the true nature of modern revisionism:
"The sources of revisionism are acceptance of domestic
bourgeois influence and surrender to external imperialist pressure. Both old
revisionism and modern revisionism are one and the same in essence and in aims.
Both deny the basic principles of Marxism and call for a renunciation of the
revolutionary struggle on the pretext that times have changed".
(KIM IL SUNG'On Juche in Our Revolution', Volume 1: p. 317).
Around this time, the WPK daily newspaper RODONG SINMUN
(Labour Daily) carried several articles attacking revisionism -- notable the
article 'Let Us Uphold National Liberation' in 1964, and 'Let Us Defend the
Socialist Camp', published in October 1963. These articles were translated into
different languages and disseminated outside Korea.
Within Korea, a thoroughgoing campaign against modern
revisionism was carried out. Comrade Kim Il Sung addressed army soldiers on the
dangers of revisionism, as well as the League of Socialist Working Youth and
other mass organisations.
As the 60s progressed, it became apparent that a serious
split had developed within the international communist movement. Comrade KIM IL
SUNG and the Workers' Party of Korea took the position of opposing revisionism,
but at the same time maintaining a principled position of defending the unity
of the international communist movement. A special conference of the WPK was
called in October 1966. At this conference Comrade KIM IL SUNG attacked modern
revisionism:
"Modern revisionism revises Marxism-Leninism and
emasculates its revolutionary quintessence under the pretext of a 'changed
situation' and 'creative development'. It rejects class struggle and the
dictatorship of the proletariat; it preaches class collaboration and gives up
fighting imperialism. Moreover, modern revisionism spread illusions about
imperialism and in every way obstructed the revolutionary struggle of the
peoples for social and national liberation".
(KIM IL SUNG' On Juche in Our Revolution', Volume 1: p. 531).
However, he also took to task left opportunism, which had
appeared in the international communist movement:
"We must fight 'Left' opportunism as well as modern
revisionism. 'Left' opportunists fail to take into account changed realities
and dogmatically seek isolated propositions of Marxism-Leninism; they lead
people to extremist action under super-revolutionary slogans. They also divorce
the Party from the masses, split the revolutionary forces and prevent a
concentrated attack on the principal enemy".
(KIM IL SUNG 'On Juche in Our Revolution', Volume 1; p. 531).
Furthermore he pointed out that the struggle against both
Right and 'Left' opportunism was closely linked to the struggle for the unity
of the socialist camp and the cohesion of the international communist movement.
Lastly, he saw the struggle for the unity and cohesion of the international
communist movement and against modern revisionism and 'Left' opportunism as
being integral to the fight for independence within the socialist camp. Comrade
KIM IL SUNG pointed to the danger inherent in losing independence:
"If we lack independence and identity, and follow in
others' steps in present-day conditions, we cannot have principle and
consistency in our lines and policies. This will not only eventually do enormous
harm to our revolution and construction, but will inflict a great damage on the
international communist movement".
(KIM IL SUNG 'On Juche in Our Revolution', Volume 1: p. 549).
Comrade KIM IL SUNG also combined the struggle against
revisionism with the struggle against US imperialism. Comrade KIM IL SUNG wrote
many works attacking US imperialism.
Entering the 1970s, the WPK renewed its struggle against
modern revisionism. At the 5th Congress of the WPK in November 1970, Comrade KIM
IL SUNG said:
"We must continue to intensify ideological work against
revisionism among the Party members and working people". (KIM IL SUNG: 'Report
on Fifth Congress of the WPK', p. 158).
In the 1980s an abnormal situation arose in the socialist
countries as the Soviet Union under Gorbachov adopted "perestroika " and
"glasnost " and many socialist countries went in for reform' and 'restructuring'. This caused confusion,
distress and disillusionment amongst communists. Comrade KIM IL SUNG, the great leader of the
Korean revolution, was one of the first leaders in the socialist world to see
through it and attack it. In December 1986, speaking to the Supreme People's
Assembly, he stressed:
"The people's government must guard against the
poisonous ideas of capitalism and revisionism and resolutely fight against all
attempts to infringe upon the socialist system".
(KIM IL SUNG: 'Works', Volume 40; p. 216).
Comrade KIM IL SUNG put forward the concept of the complete
victory of socialism, which struck a blow against the revisionists.
During a talk to senior officials of the Economic Sector on
the 3rd of January 1987, Comrade Kim Il Sung made the following analysis of the
DPRK's position vis a vis the socialist world:
"Modern revisionism which has appeared in the
international communist movement is also creating a lot of difficulties for our
revolution. On the pretext of 'reforming' and 'reorganising' socialism, the
modern revisionists are following the road to capitalism and abandoning
internationalist principles. It is, therefore, difficult for us to expect from
them co-operation based on internationalism in the building of socialism. What
is worse, they are applying economic pressure on us because we do not follow
their wrong, revisionist policy".
(KIM IL SUNG: 'Works', Volume 40; p. 231).
Speaking to officials from the chemical industry on March 20
1987, Comrade Kim Il Sung also stated:
(KIM IL SUNG: 'Works', Volume 8; p. 274).
Thus, the slogan 'Let Us Live Our Own Way!' was put forward
in the 1980s as a means of combating revisionism. Moreover, Comrade KIM IL SUNG,
with wisdom and clarity stated:
"If the officials are to be completely rid of
revisionism and reformism, and live in their own style; they must be firmly
armed with the Juche idea of our Party". (Ibid.; p. 274).
Thus the great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG made sure that the
DPRK and WPK always adhered to revolutionary principles through thick and thin.
Members of the ASSPUK and JISGE remember the great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG as a
great revolutionary who was consistent in his principles Today dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN
carrying forward the ideas of comrade KIM IL SUNG is leading the Korean people to struggle uncompromising
against US imperialism.
Dermot Hudson
ASSPUK
JISGE
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