The
28th of December is the 60th anniversary of the publication of the work
“On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in
Ideological Work” by the great leader President Kim Il Sung.This
is probably one of the most important documents of the 20th century. It
was published at a time when modern revisionism appeared in the
international communist movement and was being spread (or actually
forced on others) through the medium of great-power chauvinism. It
inspired the people of the DPRK to blaze a new path blasting away
flunkeyism and dogmatism
During
the mid 50s within the DPRK , a country sandwiched between great powers
, the sycophants towards great powers, dogmatists and factionalists
accustomed to swallowing up and taking their cue from foreign forces,
indiscriminately slandered and opposed the original lines and policies
that the Workers’ Party of Korea had put forward after the war, such as
the original policy on agricultural co-operativisation and the line of
socialist industrialisation and the building of an independent national
economy . Instead the factionalists tried to advocate only the foreign
ones. At the same time, the great-power chauvinists were attempting to
keep the DPRK at their beck and call, forcing it to join the Warsaw Pact
and Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA).
Historically
the habit of fawning on great powers or flunkeyism or sycophancy had
been a great problem within Korea . It literally cost the country its
independence as the feudal rulers of Korea did not organise the defence
of the country but instead believing relying on foreign powers. During
the period after Korea’s liberation in 1945 and during the Fatherland
Liberation War the need to establish Juche became ever more apparent.
Attaching
primary importance to establishing Juche in ideological work, President
Kim Il Sung made a historic speech to the Party propaganda and
agitation workers in December 1955. In this speech, titled On
Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in
Ideological Work, he set out the important task of establishing Juche in
the ideological work of the Party.
He said:
“What
is Juche in our Party’s ideological work? What are we doing? We are not
engaged in any other country’s revolution, but solely in the
Korean
revolution. This, the Korean revolution, determines the essence of
Juche in the ideological work of our Party. Therefore, all ideological
work must be subordinated to the interests of the Korean revolution.”
In
order to establish Juche in the Party’s ideological work, he stressed
that it was imperative for them to eliminate any tendency towards
national nihilism, become well versed in Korean history, geography and
customs, and deeply study the history of the Korean people’s struggle
and the revolutionary traditions of the Party, and give wide publicity
to them. He added that they must do away with the sycophantic attitude
towards great powers, diligently study Korean things, and master the
Party’s lines and policies, by which they should educate the Party
members and other working people. He continued to emphasize that Marxism
- Leninism and foreign experiences should not be accepted dogmatically
but be applied creatively in accordance with the specific situation of
Korea.
Juche
does not mean the total rejection of any foreign experience or the
experience of the international revolutionary movement .
As President Kim Il Sung so lucidly explained;
“Hearing
us say that it is necessary to establish Juche, some comrades might
take it simply and form a wrong idea that we need not learn from foreign
countries. That would be quite wrong. We must learn from the good
experiences of socialist countries.
The
important thing is to know what we are learning from. The aim we pursue
in learning is to turn the advanced experience of the Soviet Union and
other socialist countries to good account in our Korean revolution.
During
the war, Ho Ga I, Kim Jae Uk and Pak Il U once quarreled stupidly among
themselves over the problems of how to carry on political work in the
army. Those from the Soviet Union insisted upon the Soviet method and
those from China stuck to the Chinese method. So they quarreled, some
advocating the Soviet fashion and others the Chinese way. That was sheer
nonsense.
It
does not matter whether you use the right hand or the left, whether you
use a spoon or chopsticks at the table. No matter how you eat, it is
all the same insofar as food is put into your mouth, isn't it? What is
the need of being particular about "fashion" in wartime? When we carry
on political work to strengthen our People's Army and win battles, any
method will do so long as our aim is achieved. Yet Ho Ga I and Pak Il U
squabbled about such a trifle. This only weakens discipline within the
Party. At that time the Party centre maintained that we should learn all
the good things from both the Soviet Union and China and, on this
basis, work out a method of political work suitable to the actual
conditions of our country”
I
have quoted the above passage in order to demonstrate the baneful
influence of flunkeyism in Korea even during the period of the
Fatherland Liberation War when some factionalists indulged in pointless
polemics when they should have been finding Korean style solutions to
the problems of the day
It
was from that very year that the Party’s struggle to establish Juche
and eliminate dogmatism and formalism was combined with the struggle
against modern revisionism. As President 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".
At
a session of the Presidium of the Party Central Committee held in
February 1956, following the meeting of Party propaganda and agitation
workers, he took measures to improve the form and content of the Party’s
ideological work in a comprehensive way, and equip the Party members
and other working people with the Juche idea. In January and March of
the same year he set out a policy and ways for developing the
traditional national art and culture in a Juche-oriented way.
As
a result of an intense struggle to establish Juche in the ideological
sphere, a fresh turn was effected in the ideological life and way of
thinking of Party members and other working people. I think it can be
truly said that the establishment of Juche was a revolution in itself
which led to greater achievements in all fields .
Today
People’s Korea stands out as the most independent country in the world
was is not a copy of another country and does not read the face of another country.This is a result of the establishment of Juche.
Dermot Hudson
Chairmán Juche Idea Study Group of England
President Association For the Study of Songun Politics UK
Official Delegate Korean Friendship Association UK
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