The End Point of Opportunism

In October Juche 55 (1966), the great leader brilliantly foresaw and predicted the inevitable end point of the opportunism that was then prevalent in the Soviet Union.

The great leader taught that while the Soviets now claim they are not implementing Khrushchev’s policies, in reality, they are continuing the very actions Khrushchev had undertaken. Namely, they pay lip service to opposing imperialism, but in practice, they pursue a line of compromise; they claim not to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, yet they continue to meddle; they speak of seeking unity, but their actions destroy it; they propose friendship with us, while trying to shake hands with our enemy; and they claim to be helping Vietnam, while seeking to join hands with the enemy of the Vietnamese people. He instructed that we must never harbour any illusions about the Soviet Union.

He continued to say that the Soviet party leadership is still walking the path of Khrushchev’s line on fundamental issues. If they continue like this, he asked, which path will the Soviet Union ultimately take? He asserted that as long as the Soviet Union continues to avoid the struggle against imperialism and refuses to abandon national egoism, the best it can hope for is to degenerate into social-democratic reformism.

The words of the great leader on the end point of Soviet opportunism, which was unable to free itself from the quagmire of opportunism, were truly a brilliant, far-sighted prophecy.

The former rulers of the Soviet Union, touting what they called the “Swedish model” and other such things, championed social-democratic reformism and engaged in games of reform and restructuring, only to ruin everything: the Party, the state, and the socialist system itself.

The great leader had already foreseen this end point of opportunism, from which there is no escape, more than twenty years prior.

— Insight of Great Man, Kumsong Youth Publishing House, Pyongyang 2011, pp. 55-56.