As we approach the 25th anniversary of the passing away of the great leader comrade KIM IL SUNG I have been reading some biographies of President KIM IL SUNG . My favourite and probably the best ever is the 1968 Baik Bong biography . In this book comrade KIM IL SUNG is referred to as the 'outstanding leader of the international communist and working class movement '. Later on people referred to President KIM IL SUNG as the senior or elder of the international communist movement . Indeed chairman Mao Zedong leader of the People's Republic of China and the Communist Party of China said "About world revolution no one can lead it, except for Kim Il Sung. My sincere request to you, Comrade Kim Il-sung is to continue and now lead the cause of world revolution and the international Communist movement. ".This indeed reflected the fact that President KIM IL SUNG wa the seasoned and veteran leader of the international communist movement . Indeed he held high the red flag of socialism when others fell by the wayside and threw it down .
President KIM IL SUNG had always believed in maintaining revolutionary principles and always opposed modern revisionism right from the start . Modern revisionism which first appeared in the ranks of the international communist movement towards the end of the 1950s and early 1960s was a truly awful counter-revolutionary ideology which eventually caused the collapse of the USSR and other socialist countries . President KIM IL SUNG speaking to soldiers of the 109th Army of the KPA on the 25th August 1960 said that
"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 revisionists". This was a sharp and incisive analysis of modern revisionism . Later he gave the following reasoned and coherent analysis 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".
In the 1980s when some socialist countries went off the rails and either adopted "reform " and "opening up " or perestroika/glasnost . President KIM IL SUNG spoke out against this idiocy that was so insidious and toxic . In December 1986 he warned against the infiltration of revisionism and capitalism into the DPRK saying that "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". In January 1987 he sharply criticised modern revisionism pointing out that "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".
President KIM IL SUNG also noted the dangers of 'reform' and 'opening up being pursued by a neighbouring country
"Careless opening may allow mosquitoes and blowflies to fly in and cause damage. We must conduct exchanges and joint ventures with other countries, but we must pitch mosquito nets to prevent those insects from infiltrating ".
Whilst opposing modern revisionism President KIM IL SUNG avoided the ultra-leftism and sectarianism of some who claimed to oppose modern revisionism . He consistently argued for unity and against division in the international communist movement and socialist camp. He saw both modern revisionism and Left opportunism ( which had emerged in the mid 1960s ) as dangerous pointing out that " 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".
It was for this reason that the DPRK and Workers' Party of Korea maintained relations with both the Soviet Union and People's Republic of China as well socialist countries such as Albania, Vietnam, Cuba and Romania. The WPK worked with communist and worker's parties of different tendencies and views. Throughout his life President KIM IL SUNG met many leaders of communist and workers' parties both ruling and non ruling such as J V Stalin , Mao Zedong , Zhou En Lai, Hua Kuo Feng, Fidel Castro , Che Guevara , Ho Chi Minh , Enver Hoxha , Erich Honecker , Gus Hall , Alvaro Cunhal , Leonid Brezhnev Santiago Carrillo and Enrico Berlinguer to name just a few of the leaders and activists of the international communist movement .
Thus President KIM IL SUNG is remembered as the most extraordinary elder of the international
communist movement . His image and memory are bright in the hearts of revolutionaries throughout the world .
Dr Dermot Hudson
President Association for the Study of Songun Politics UK
Chairman Juche Idea Study Group of England
Chairman UK Korean Friendship Association
Chairman British Solidarity Committee for Peace and Reunification on the Korean Peninsula
Chairman UK Committee for Remembering President KIM IL SUNG
Hon Secretary general International Central Committee For Songun Study .
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