KIM
JONG IL
THE
WORKERS' PARTY OF KOREA IS A
JUCHE-TYPE REVOLUTIONARY PARTY
WHICH
INHERITED THE GLORIOUS TRADITION OF
THE DIU
October 17,
1982
Today,
October 17, is the 56th anniversary of the
formation of the Down-with-Imperialism
Union (DIU)
by the great leader Comrade Kim Il
Sung.
With the formation of
the DIU
our people's revolutionary struggle
embarked on a new road of development and
our Party began to strike its glorious
roots.
Our Party has
traversed the glorious course of struggle
for over half a century since it took root
with the formation of the DIU; and on this
road it has scored many of the most
brilliant achievements of the century, and
has grown and strengthened as a powerful
revolutionary party, united rock-firm and
equipped with a wealth of experience.
By leading the people
our Party achieved national independence
and carried out democratic and socialist
revolutions, and through tremendous
construction work, it radically changed
the appearance of the country and built a
"model socialist state" which strikes the
world's people with admiration. In the
hard-fought struggle against US
imperialist invasion, our Party led the
people to victory and preserved the
country and the revolution with credit.
For its immortal
exploits on behalf of the country and the
people, the age and history, our Party
enjoys the unreserved support and
confidence of the entire Korean people.
With the monolithic
ideological system firmly established
throughout, our Party has been
strengthened more than ever before, both
organizationally and ideologically, as the
tested General Staff of the revolution
and, convinced of the justness of its
cause and certain of victory, it is
successfully guiding the cause of
modelling the whole of society on the
Juche idea.
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Our Party which has
followed a unique path since it started to
take root with the formation of the DIU is a new type
of revolutionary working-class party.
Ours is a Juche-type
revolutionary party which is guided by the
Juche idea and carried out its
revolutionary activities independently and
creatively in keeping with the interests
of our people and conditions in our
country. By establishing Juche thoroughly
in all spheres of Party building and
activity with the Juche idea as its
unalterable guide, it has been able to
strengthen and develop into an
indestructible revolutionary party.
Basically, it is
essential for a working-class party to
establish Juche, which emanates from its
own character and mission. Because it is a
political leadership body which fights to
oppose all manner of domination and
subjugation and realize the independence
of the masses, it should establish Juche
thoroughly. If a party fails to do this
and dances to the tune of others, it will,
in the long run, bring ruin on both itself
and the revolution. Only a party which
acts independently, and with its own
principle, can be a powerful party which
is united on the basis of its own guiding
idea and can enjoy the support and
confidence of its people and enlist their
inexhaustible strength, thus vigorously
advancing the revolution and construction.
It is important for a
working-class party in establishing Juche
to eradicate flunkeyism and dogmatism. In
our country, particularly, where
flunkeyism and dogmatism were rampant and
did great harm to the communist movement,
establishing Juche posed a vital question
relating to the destiny of the Party and
the revolution. During the anti-Japanese
national-liberation struggle and in the
periods of democratic and socialist
revolutions and socialist construction
after liberation, the Korean communists
always strove persistently to combat
flunkeyism and dogmatism and establish
Juche. As a result, they could strengthen
and develop the Party and advance the
revolutionary struggle.
In the years of the
anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle the
flunkeyists tried to found a party with
the approval of others and achieve
independence on the strength of others,
which caused great harm to the development
of the communist movement in our country.
After liberation the harmfulness of
flunkeyism and dogmatism was manifested to
a great extent during the Fatherland
Liberation War and it became insupportable
as the socialist revolution and socialist
construction were carried out on a full
scale.
The great leader
Comrade Kim Il Sung who has fought
against flunkeyism and dogmatism since the
early years of the revolutionary struggle
against the Japanese, has given wise
leadership so that Juche is being
established more thoroughly with the
development of the revolution and
construction. Upholding the revolutionary
policy on establishing Juche, our Party
has waged a vigorous ideological struggle
to eradicate the flunkeyism and dogmatism
which still remain in people's minds and,
in the meantime, it has ensured that they
are equipped firmly with the great Juche
idea and Party policy, its embodiment, and
thus observe and judge all problems from
the Juche-oriented stand and resolve them
by their own efforts. Through the struggle
to establish Juche, a change has been
effected in the ideological life of Party
members and working people, the Party's
unity and cohesion based on the Juche idea
have been further strengthened, and a
continued improvement in the revolution
and construction has been brought about.
Under the slogan of
modelling the whole Party on the Juche
idea, our Party is now intensifying the
battle to establish Juche in Party
building and activity and is thus further
perfecting its character as a
revolutionary party of a Juche type.
Ours is an invincible
revolutionary party which has firmly
established a monolithic ideological
system throughout its own structure.
Establishing this
system is our basic line of Party
building. It is an essential requirement
of a working-class party to ensure the
unity of ideology and leadership. This is
effected by establishing the Party's
monolithic ideological system. Only when
this is done can the whole Party be armed
with the leader's intention and become a
living organism, breathing and acting in
conformity with his idea and will.
It is important in
establishing the Party's monolithic
ideological system to pervade the whole
Party with the leader's idea.
The leader is the
embodiment of the organizational will of
the whole Party and his idea is explicitly
the guiding ideology of the Party. The
ideological unity of the Party is brought
about only on the basis of the leader's
idea.
Our Party regarded
education in the monolithic ideology as
its basic ideological task and carried it
out energetically. As a result, a single
ideology has prevailed throughout the
Party, and all its members have been armed
firmly with the leader's revolutionary
idea, the Juche idea, and have come to
think and act as required by this idea.
Another important
factor in establishing the monolithic
ideological system is to achieve the
leader's unitary leadership absolutely.
The leader is the
supreme controller of a party, and the
party's leadership is precisely his
leadership. Our Party has set up a
well-regulated system under which all its
organizations and members act as one man
under the unitary leadership of the
great leader Comrade
Kim Il Sung, give absolute authority to Party policies and defend and implement them without question.
Kim Il Sung, give absolute authority to Party policies and defend and implement them without question.
By thoroughly
establishing the monolithic ideological
system in its ranks our Party increased
its strength as never before, and was able
to lead the revolution and construction
straight to victory through all
difficulties.
The progress of the
revolution calls for further strengthening
the work of establishing the Party's
monolithic ideological system. This is a
law which governs the development of the
Party and the revolution. The whole course
of our Party's existence is the process of
in-depth development of this work. Our
Party defined new principles of
establishing its monolithic ideological
system and strengthened this work to meet
the needs of the revolution in the 1970's
when the proposition was put forward that
the whole of society should be modelled on
the Juche idea. Today our Party has grown
into loyal ranks, and the whole membership
thinks and acts according to the will of
the Party and the leader, united firmly
around the great Comrade Kim Il Sung.
This is the most valuable achievement of
the Korean communists in the long period
of struggle to build the Party.
We are a powerful
party which has achieved the closest unity
and solidarity based on the Juche idea.
The unity and
solidarity of Party ranks is the source of
a revolutionary party's strength. A united
party is indestructible, and nothing is
more precious in building a working-class
party than its ranks' unity and cohesion.
Unity and cohesion
are brought about through struggle. The
struggle against anti-party tendencies is,
in essence, a reflection of the class
struggle within the party. Without
mounting a resolute and uncompromising
attack against anti-party tendencies and
alien elements, the unity and purity of
the party ranks could not be assured. Our
Party has constantly strengthened the
unity and cohesion of its ranks,
overcoming all kinds of alien elements and
anti-Party tendencies, including
factionalism.
Factionalism was the
first target of the campaign for our
Party's unity and cohesion. The
revolutionary ranks led by Comrade Kim
Il Sung during the anti-Japanese
revolutionary struggle overcame
factionalism and they all united closely
behind him. This is an invaluable
tradition of our communist movement which
was established during the bloody struggle
to shape the destiny of the country and
the people. But the factionalists who had
become traitors and philistines slipped
into the communist ranks in the chaotic
situation after liberation and viciously
worked to undermine the unity and cohesion
of the Party. In an attempt to accomplish
their factional plot they did not hesitate
to collaborate with imperialists.
If factionalism were
to be tolerated, the unity of a
working-class party in idea and purpose
could not be achieved, nor could the party
exist as an entity. In the struggle for
its unity our Party concentrated its
attack first on factionalism which still
remained from the past, wiped out the
anti-Party factionalists and achieved the
great unity of the Korean communist
movement.
The struggle for the
unity and cohesion of the Party did not
end with the defeat of factionalism which
had persisted for many years. After
clearing out this filth, our Party went on
to fight the anti-Party revisionists and
developed its historic struggle for unity
on a higher level.
The unity and
cohesion of our Party are great and
unbreakable because the entire membership
is united around the great Comrade Kim
Il Sung and because they are based
on its infinite loyalty to the Party and
the leader. The leader is the centre of
the Party's unity and cohesion, and its
strength depends on how firmly the entire
membership is united behind him. The unity
and cohesion of our Party are not just
achieved out of duty. They are based on
the membership's infinite respect for, and
absolute trust in, the Party and the
leader, and founded on its unshakable
revolutionary belief and sense of
gratitude which cause it to defend and
protect the Party and the leader
politically and ideologically and to fight
for them even at the cost of its members'
lives.
The unity and
cohesion of our Party are great and
unbreakable because they are based on
unity of idea and purpose. The important
thing in the Party's unity and cohesion is
to achieve the unity of idea and will.
Unity based on a single idea and purpose
must be durable, otherwise it cannot
achieve lasting unity. The single ideology
means precisely the revolutionary idea of
the leader, the founder of the Party. The
leader's revolutionary idea is the basis
of the Party's unity and cohesion; the
unity and cohesion of the working-class
party is the unity of idea and purpose
based on the revolutionary idea of the
leader. Our Party is an ideological entity
of communists of a Juche type who regard
the Juche idea as their world outlook.
Our Party is so
strong because of its great unity and
cohesion based on the Juche idea and
centring on the great leader Comrade Kim
Il Sung.
We are a steel-like
party with a strong organization and
discipline.
Revolutionary
organization and discipline are the life
and soul of the party, the highest
organization of the working class and the
weapon of the class struggle and the
weapon of the revolution and construction.
Only when iron discipline and organization
are guaranteed, can the working-class
party be a truly revolutionary and
militant party and win the revolutionary
struggle, in the face of all difficulties
and trials. As history shows, a party
dominated by liberalism and indiscipline
is doomed to failure.
Because of its
unbreakable organization and discipline
our Party is powerful and invincible. The
organization and discipline of our Party
are durable and strong because they are
founded on the membership's infinite
loyalty to the Party and the leader and
its high degree of political awareness.
Organization and
discipline are strengthened when a
revolutionary system of Party life is
established throughout the Party and that
life is regularized and standardized among
its members. Our experience clearly shows
that the regulation and standardization of
Party life and the strict observance of
the rules and order of inner Party life
are a powerful means for revolutionizing
Party member and making them better
organized and disciplined and for
strengthening and developing the Party
into a revolutionary one with great
fighting efficiency. Through the struggle
to regulate and standardize Party life,
the Party members' sense of organization
has been enhanced and a habit has been
firmly established of all working and
living in strict dependence on Party
organizations. This is a valuable
achievement in Party building.
Our Party is an
invincible party which maintains close
ties of kinship with the masses.
The Party labours for
the interests of the working class and
other popular masses and carries out the
revolution by organizing and mobilizing
them. Accordingly, maintaining close bonds
of kinship with the broad masses and
becoming deeply rooted amongst them is
particularly important in the building of
a working-class party. Only a party which
strikes its roots deep among the masses
and enjoys their support and trust and
which knows how to organize and mobilize
them can demonstrate an invincible might
and discharge its mission as the General
Staff of the revolution and the political
leader of the popular masses.
Keeping in touch with
the masses is important for a ruling
party, too. If the party has taken power,
this problem is not solved automatically.
If the party in power is divorced from the
masses and loses their support and
confidence, it also becomes impotent and
even endangers its own existence.
Since he set out on
the revolutionary road, the great leader
Comrade Kim Il Sung has regarded
the ties with the popular masses as a
fundamental problem related to the future
of the revolutionary organization. For a
long time he has always been among the
masses and shared the good things and the
bad with them. He has made it an iron rule
to trust the masses and promote the
revolution and construction by giving rein
to their strength and wisdom.
Our Party saw to it
that officials and its members raised
their Party spirit, working-class spirit
and popular spirit, served the people
faithfully and thoroughly implemented the
mass line in all their activities, thus
constantly strengthening the ties between
the Party and the masses. In work with
people our Party firmly adhered to the
class principle and built up its class
position. On the other hand, it educated
broad sections of the masses, boldly drew
them into its fold and united them firmly
behind it.
Today our Party
maintains its close ties with the people
and enjoys the unreserved support and
confidence of people of all backgrounds,
and our people entrust their destiny
entirely to the Party and fight on without
hesitation along the road which it
specifies. As has already been said, our
Party forms a perfect whole with the
people. No wonder it is invincible and no
force can break its close bonds of kinship
with the people.
Our Party established
a well-regulated system of work with
people and established a revolutionary
method of work and a popular style of work
throughout the Party.
All activities of the
party, a political organization of the
working class fighting for the interests
of the masses of people, are realized
through work with people. The party gets
people to act voluntarily, thus
transforming society and nature and
advancing the revolution and construction.
The great leader
Comrade Kim Il Sung put forward
the idea of making work with people basic
to Party work. This is a great idea which
clarifies the fundamental principle of
Party activity by incorporating the Juche
idea in Party building. Only by making
work with people its key policy can the
Party prevent its work from being reduced
to administrative-technical work, and
maintain its nature as a political
organization and fulfil its militant role
and function properly.
Our Party opposed the
tendency to reduce Party work to
administrative-technical work, a tendency
which may appear in a party in power, and
resolutely carried through the policy of
making work with people basic to Party
activity.
Establishing the
revolutionary method of work and the
popular style of work is a serious and
important question arising in the building
of a working-class party.
In particular, when
the party takes power, an inclination
towards bureaucracy may appear, the
inclination to issue orders and
instructions from a position of power. A
bureaucratic attitude is more likely to be
shown by officials who have developed in a
tranquil atmosphere without undergoing
revolutionary trials.
By its nature, this
is a despotic method of administration
which is used by the ruling class in an
exploiting society. It is fundamentally
opposed to the real nature of a
working-class party. When officials do not
have the revolutionary method of work and
popular style of work and are infected
with bureaucracy, the party line and
policies, however correct they may be,
cannot be carried out and this leads to
serious consequences—estranging the party
from the masses and dampening their
revolutionary enthusiasm and creative
activity.
Since it came into
power, our Party has considered it to be a
fundamental matter in Party building to
improve the method and style of Party work
and it has always paid great attention to
this.
The basic policy
maintained by our Party in improving the
method and style of Party work is to
establish the anti-Japanese guerrilla work
method throughout the Party. This method
created in person by the great leader
Comrade Kim Il Sung during the
arduous anti-Japanese revolutionary
struggle is a true communistic work
method. Carrying this forward is the true
way to eradicate bureaucracy, the abuse of
power and all other mistaken methods and
styles of work left over from the old
society and establish the revolutionary
method of work and popular style of work
conforming with a socialist and communist
society.
Our Party's
traditional anti-Japanese guerrilla method
of work has been embodied and improved in
conformity with the new conditions of
socialist construction, through the great
Chongsanri spirit and method. In a
nutshell, the Chongsanri method is a work
method of relying on the strength of the
masses; it is a revolutionary work method
by which one goes among the masses, shares
the good times and the bad with them and
carries out projected tasks by drawing on
their conscious enthusiasm and creative
initiative. In the course of implementing
the Chongsanri spirit and method, our
Party work has been completely turned into
work with man and its work method and
style have been radically improved.
Improving the method
and style of Party work is a campaign to
eliminate obsolete ideological elements
from the minds of officials. So it should
be waged tirelessly and patiently over a
long period. Our Party accepted this as a
central task to improve its work method
and style in keeping with the new
requirements of the developing revolution
and has waged a vigorous all-Party
struggle to this end. As a result, the
anti-Japanese guerrilla method of work has
been embodied in all Party work and the
way of Party work radically improved. The
revolutionary spirit beats throughout the
Party, all work is carried out
energetically, and relations between the
Party and the masses have become
unbreakable.
Our Party has been
strengthened and developed into a
revolutionary party which advances, united
with the masses, and a militant party
which has its roots deep amongst them and
enjoys their unreserved support. This is
one of the most precious achievements in
building a revolutionary party of a Juche
type.
Our Party is, indeed,
a glorious revolutionary party of a Juche
type, a party which was founded and acts,
guided by the Juche idea, a party in which
the monolithic ideological system has been
firmly established and whose members have
been united rock-firm on the basis of the
Juche idea; a party which maintains close
ties of kinship with the popular masses
and strives to accomplish the
revolutionary cause of Juche by improving
their role.
To strengthen and
develop our Party still further into a
revolutionary party of a Juche type is a
decisive guarantee for overcoming all
obstacles and bringing the revolutionary
cause of Juche to completion.