Saturday, April 03, 2004
A REVIEW OF KIM IL SUNG'S "THE PATH OF THE KOREAN REVOLUTION", A SPEECH MADE ON JUNE 30TH IN KALUN BY JOHN MARCHANT
As it the 10th anniversary of the passing away of respected President KIM IL SUNG I thought it appropriate to the review one of the very first works authored by the Great Leader. It was in a period when resistance to the Japanese imperialist rule in Korea was intenfying that KIM IL SUNG delivered a report to the meeting of the Anti-imperialist Youth League in Kalun. It was from this report that we can trace the origins of the Juche Idea that was born in the battlefields of the Korean national liberation struggle of the 1930s.
To quote from the work:
"THE KOREAN NATION IS FACING A QUESTION OF LIFE OR DEATH TODAY IT EITHER PERHISHES FOREVER UNDER THE COLONIAL YOKE OF THE JAPANESE IMPERIALISTS OR RISE UP IN A FIGHT TO SURVIVE. IF IT MERELY LAMENTS OVER ITS RUINED LAND AND TOLERATES THE UNHEARD OF JAPANESE TYRANNY, OUR NATION WILL FAIL NEVER TO RISE UP AND FIGHT, DEFYING DEATH, IT WILL WILL GREET THE DAWN OF LIBERATION.
THE MASTERS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE ARE THE MASSES OF THE PEOPLE AND ONLY WHEN THEY ARE ORGANISED AND MOBILIZED CAN THEY WIN THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE. THEREFORE THE LEADERS OF THE MOVEMENT MUST GO AMONG THE MASSES AND AWAKEN THEM SO THAT THEY THEMSELVES WAGE THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE AS MASTERS. BUT THE SELF-STYLED LEADERS OF THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT MERELY INDULGED IN A WAR OF WORDS HARMFUL TO THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT AND GAVE NO THOUGHT TO AWAKENING THE MASSES AND MOBILIZING THEM FOR THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE. WITHOUT ORGANISING THE MASSES FOR REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE IT IS POSSIBLE TO ACHIEVE THE SACRED CAUSE OF LIBERATING THE COUNTRY FROM THE VICIOUS JAPANESE IMPERIALIST COLONIAL YOKE.
IN COLONIES AN ARMED STRUGGLE AGANIST IMPERIALISM IS THE LAW OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATI0NAL LIBERATION STRUGGLE OWNING TO ITS INTRINSIC AGGRESSIVE AND PREDATORY NATURE, IMPERIALISM WILL NEVER WITHDRAW FROM THE COLONIES OF ITS OWN ACCORD, AND WILL ALWAYS RESORT TO BRUTAL VIOLENCE TO MAINTAIN ITS COLONIAL RULE. SO THE IMPERIALIST FORCES OF AGGRESSION MUST BE SMASHED BY THE REVOLUTIONARY ARMED FORCES".
We can see a direct line from the dawn of the Korean Revolution when the spark of the Juche Idea was lit by KIM IL SUNG in 1930 to the present day when KIM JONG IL has inaugurated the Songun revolutionary cause. By studing "THE PATH OF THE KOREAN REVOLUTION" one can detect the evolution of the Juche Idea, it was the Juche Idea which proved to be so instrumental in liberating Korea and inspiring mankind upon the road of independence.
As it the 10th anniversary of the passing away of respected President KIM IL SUNG I thought it appropriate to the review one of the very first works authored by the Great Leader. It was in a period when resistance to the Japanese imperialist rule in Korea was intenfying that KIM IL SUNG delivered a report to the meeting of the Anti-imperialist Youth League in Kalun. It was from this report that we can trace the origins of the Juche Idea that was born in the battlefields of the Korean national liberation struggle of the 1930s.
To quote from the work:
"THE KOREAN NATION IS FACING A QUESTION OF LIFE OR DEATH TODAY IT EITHER PERHISHES FOREVER UNDER THE COLONIAL YOKE OF THE JAPANESE IMPERIALISTS OR RISE UP IN A FIGHT TO SURVIVE. IF IT MERELY LAMENTS OVER ITS RUINED LAND AND TOLERATES THE UNHEARD OF JAPANESE TYRANNY, OUR NATION WILL FAIL NEVER TO RISE UP AND FIGHT, DEFYING DEATH, IT WILL WILL GREET THE DAWN OF LIBERATION.
THE MASTERS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE ARE THE MASSES OF THE PEOPLE AND ONLY WHEN THEY ARE ORGANISED AND MOBILIZED CAN THEY WIN THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE. THEREFORE THE LEADERS OF THE MOVEMENT MUST GO AMONG THE MASSES AND AWAKEN THEM SO THAT THEY THEMSELVES WAGE THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE AS MASTERS. BUT THE SELF-STYLED LEADERS OF THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT MERELY INDULGED IN A WAR OF WORDS HARMFUL TO THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT AND GAVE NO THOUGHT TO AWAKENING THE MASSES AND MOBILIZING THEM FOR THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE. WITHOUT ORGANISING THE MASSES FOR REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE IT IS POSSIBLE TO ACHIEVE THE SACRED CAUSE OF LIBERATING THE COUNTRY FROM THE VICIOUS JAPANESE IMPERIALIST COLONIAL YOKE.
IN COLONIES AN ARMED STRUGGLE AGANIST IMPERIALISM IS THE LAW OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATI0NAL LIBERATION STRUGGLE OWNING TO ITS INTRINSIC AGGRESSIVE AND PREDATORY NATURE, IMPERIALISM WILL NEVER WITHDRAW FROM THE COLONIES OF ITS OWN ACCORD, AND WILL ALWAYS RESORT TO BRUTAL VIOLENCE TO MAINTAIN ITS COLONIAL RULE. SO THE IMPERIALIST FORCES OF AGGRESSION MUST BE SMASHED BY THE REVOLUTIONARY ARMED FORCES".
We can see a direct line from the dawn of the Korean Revolution when the spark of the Juche Idea was lit by KIM IL SUNG in 1930 to the present day when KIM JONG IL has inaugurated the Songun revolutionary cause. By studing "THE PATH OF THE KOREAN REVOLUTION" one can detect the evolution of the Juche Idea, it was the Juche Idea which proved to be so instrumental in liberating Korea and inspiring mankind upon the road of independence.
