Western Maoists: “Juche revisionists mistake socialism for nationalizing everything.”
Kim Jong Il: Public ownership does not automatically make the masses the masters of economic management and is not the decisive factor of socialism.
Kim Il Sung on the transition from socialism to communism…
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A socialist society is the first phase of a communist society, but socialism should be distinguished from communism. True, we are striving for the ultimate goal of building a communist society which is ideal for mankind.
But communism can come into being only through socialism.
The transition from socialism to communism requires a further development of the productive forces, the production of goods in ever larger quantities and also communist remolding of people’s consciousness.
To make communism a reality goods must be abundant enough to fully gratify the desires of the people.
If products are to be very abundant, technology should be further developed and labor productivity raised still higher, so that it becomes possible to turn out an abundance of goods.
In a communist society production will be completely mechanized and automated, and the distinctions between skilled and unskilled labor, between mental and physical labor will also disappear.
Therefore, it will become possible then to distribute goods equally to everybody according to his needs and his wishes.
In a socialist society, however, the productive forces have not yet developed to such a degree.
Since mechanization has not yet been fully realized, many distinctions still remain in labor, too. In the first place, the disparity between easy work and hard work is very great.
Plowing is harder than raising chickens, and working in the mine-pit is harder than surface work. It is also a fact that physical labor is harder than indoor clerical work.
If we were to distribute goods equally to everyone in spite of such differences, who would ever offer to do the hard work, who would acquire technical know-how, show creativity and take pains to produce more goods?
Production can develop rapidly only when there is a differentiation in distribution, because there is disparity in labor.
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From a speech Delivered at a General Membership Meeting of the Party Organization of Chongsan-ri, Kangso County, February 8, 1960
Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il long ago made clear an immutable truth that peace and socialism are guaranteed by the power of the gun. (KCNA, 24 May 1999)
Coverage of basic human needs for everyone > prize for “winners” in the rat race of envy. General Choe Dok Sin, who had lived both in the south and in the north, knew this and unhesitatingly chose socialism:
Haz is right. "Non-ML" Marxists are clerical obscurantists who mistake Marx's discovery for an "independent, complete, straight line". In doing so they produce nothing but "sterile flowers" on the "living tree" of "powerful, omnipotent, objective, absolute human knowledge."
Giving up the world revolution is itself a form of “decadence”, of revisionist degeneration by lazy people who prioritize their own short-term material well-being over the mission of fighting against imperialism for final victory: https://t.co/rUrbL30zQ3
According to Kim Il Sung, “A man who is steeped in national egoism and forgets the world revolution is no longer a communist. We must never forget our class brothers around the world. We must be loyal to internationalism for ever.”
Dogmatic comrades who call Juche “idealist” are doing the greatest spot in favor of idealism ever—by claiming that idealism enabled the DPRK to resist imperialist siege, build nukes and achieve economic progress under sanctions, thus it works better than anything they stand for.
@dancohen3000@ChairMcbee95391@ACPMain A complete about-face after years of propagating a cohesive theoretical line seems less likely than a misinterpretation on your own part bro
On 27 November 1945, while he was speaking at a mass rally of the youth in Sinuiju about which path liberated Korea should take, a voice from among the crowd asked Kim Il Sung: “General, are you also a communist?” The answer of the great leader was epic:
@tw0fast2furious Every accusation is a confession. Maintaining the common thread of ML history is screeched about as tainting it by tropical socialists who refer to tertiary sources exclusively.
"Oh it's tourism bro. It's services bro. It's rentiering. You'll be a real country for sure bro. Just sit on your commodities and do nothing. Don't have any commodities? Just be a tourist spot broooo. Just attract IT bro."
- The economic orthodoxy of this era.
Utter falsehoods contradicting even Hoxha’s own account in “The Khruschevites”, which documents the struggle of Kim Il Sung against revisionist factions from Yanan and Irkutsk supported by Brezhnev and Mikoyan (though Enver doesn’t tell the end of the story…):