Wednesday 11 February 2015

Speech on the occasion of the day of the Shining Star the 73rd birth anniversary of the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL(made to JISGE and ASSPUK meeting 31st January)

Comrades and friends,
The central purpose of this meeting is to celebrate the 73rd anniversary of the birth of the great leader generalissimo KIM JONG IL . In 2012 February 16 was instituted as the Day of the Shining Star on the occasion of the 70th birth anniversary of Kim Jong Il and also posthumously awarded the title of generalissimo KIM JONG IL who had led the Songun revolution and the work of defending People‘s Korea from imperialist aggression , a task that is now carried forward by his successor dear respected Marshal KIM JONG UN .

Why because indeed KIM JONG IL was the shining star , a guiding light that led the Korean people forward to the bright morrow of a thriving Socialist country and national reunification and not just for the Korean people but for the Juche Idea and Songun Idea followers of the world .

The Juche Idea and Songun Idea and the great teaching of great generalissimo KIM JONG IL are indeed a shining star that guides the world revolutionary people forward to independence, forward to a new world free from exploitation, oppression and domination.
The Juche Idea is not an abstract theory created in a library or a quiet study but was authored by the great leader President KIM IL SUNG on the anti-Japanese battlefields. The Juche idea ensured that the Korean revolution advanced along the correct path towards victory avoiding the pitfalls of Right and “Left “ opportunism and subservience to big powers . Juche totally eschewed national reformism which had been advocated by some . Basically Juche has a much wider and deeper meaning than simply meaning self-reliance or independence though of course this concepts are a key part of Juche . The Juche Idea , as taught by KIM JONG Il is an integral system of idea, theory and leadership method . Moreover the Juche Idea provides theories onNational liberation, class emancipation and the building of socialism and communism.

The great leader comrade KIM JONG IL who had been working at the helm of the Korean revolution since the early 1960s systematised and enriched the Juche Idea . This work was not done in an abstract way , the basis was drawn by KIM JONG IL continuously mixing with the people. As KIM JONG IL himself said “ Reality is a fine school and the masses are teachers. “. KIM JONG IL was a true son of the people who was never apart from them . As a student he participated in the reconstruction of Pyongyang City and later worked at a lathe , Lathe no 26 in the Pyongyang Textile Machinery factory . The whole raison d etre of the Juche Idea is the people are the masters of everything and everything should be done for them,
KIM JONG IL wrote a number of works on the Juche Idea chief amongst them was the thesis “ON THE JUCHE IDEA “ published in March 1982 to mark the 70th birthday of the great leader President KIM IL SUNG and also works such as “On Establishing the Juche Outlook on the Revolution “, Some Problems in Education in The Juche idea “ and the “ The Juche Idea Is an Original Revolutionary Philosophy “. In his famous thesis on the Juche Idea KIM JONG IL just as Lenin once said Marxism consisted of three parts or three sources explained that the Juche Idea has the philosophical principle and the socio-historical principle. The key thing is that man is the master and decides everything . KIM JONG IL explained why this is so
Man, not nature, holds the position of master in the material world. Man is the only independent being in the material world. Animals can survive only by adapting themselves to nature. Therefore, they cannot be called masters of their own destiny.
Animals are part of nature and their destiny is determined by the natural laws of change and development, whereas man is the powerful master of the world who, on the basis of a scientific understanding of these natural laws, transforms nature to meet his own needs and harnesses it in his service. Man is not a being which obeys the natural laws of change and development and casts in his lot with nature; he is a social being who shapes his own destiny independently and creatively in accordance with the laws of social movement, the laws peculiar to human society.

This is the difference between man and animals . Whereas animals live by adapting to their Environment man actively changes his environment and has the capacity to do so.Juche represented a clean break from determinism and mechanical materialism it showed man’s place in the world . KIM JONG IL also pointed out that that man has the attributes of independence, creativity and consciousness which enables him to live as a master of the world. In order to realise his destiny as master of the world man needs to overcome fetters such as nature as well exploitative and oppressive social systems that restrict his independence, as KIM JONG IL so eloquently and aptly explains
The history of human society ever since its division into hostile classes has, above all, been a history of social revolutions to realize social and political independence for the popular masses. Through social revolutions the masses have carved out their destiny and developed society.

Owing to slave revolts which were, so to speak, the first struggle in history of the exploited working masses for independence, and to peasant struggles against feudalism in the Middle Ages, the slavery and the feudal system collapsed. That meant progress in the struggle of the working masses for independence. But that was only a replacement of the chains of slavery with feudal fetters, which in turn were replaced with the yoke of capital, not the abolition of class domination and oppression itself. In the history of human society, capitalism is the last exploiting system which tramples upon the masses’ aspirations and demand for independence. It is a violently oppressive system which combines class domination with national oppression.

The liquidation of the capitalist system and establishment of a new socialist system mark a historic turning point in the development of the revolutionary struggle for independence. With the establishment of the socialist system, all exploiting classes and institutions which trample upon the aspirations and demands of the masses for independence, are abolished, and the masses are provided with the necessary conditions which enable them to hold state power and production means in their hands and lead a fully independent life.”
The Juche Idea that was developed by President KIM IL SUNG and systematised by KIM JONG IL became a weapon of struggle for millions of people Throughout the world. As Didier Ratsrika ex President of the Democratic Republic of Madagascar said “ The Juche Idea makes the exploited people of the world reflect deeply and it is a theory and method that provides the correct steps for them to solve the contradictions left over by the dominating forces “ Parties such as the People’s Front of the Workers , Peasants and Students of Peru and the Union of the Revolutionary Left of Peru incorporated the Juche idea into their programmes.
It can be added that the Juche Idea Tower stands tall and has pride of place in the centre Pyongyang basking in the majesty of the River Taedong . At its base there are many stones from Juche Idea Study groups and organisations throughout the world, this is a monument in itself to the role that KIM JONG IL played in systematising the Juche Idea.
The Juche Idea is fully embodied in the Songun idea , the idea of giving priority to the military . One of the tenets of the practical application of Juche is the principle of Self-defence as revolution confront counter-revolution by means of force . KIM JONG IL made a great contribution to development and administration of Songun politics
The Songun revolutionary leadership of the great leader comrade KIM JONG Il began on the 25th of August 1960 at the Seoul Ryu Kyong Su no 105 Tank Division of the Korean People’s Army(KPA).
. The great leader comrade KIM JONG IL who had grown up with the echoes of the gunshots of the great anti-Japanese war and had experienced the great Fatherland Liberation War of the Korean people. He learnt the truth that Songun advances the revolution. The great leader comrade KIM JONG IL said that;
Our Party started pursuing Songun politics on the basis of its scientific analysis of the international circumstances of our revolution and of the rapidly changing situation.
Entering the 1990s, socialism collapsed in the former Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries, giving rise to a great change in the world political structure and balance of forces. Although the imperialists’ mouthpieces and opportunists claimed that a new era of “detente and peace’’ had arrived following the “end of the Cold War,” the world can never exist in peace so long as imperialism remains rampant. By taking advantage of the collapse of the global socialist system, the reactionary imperialist forces intensified their offensive against the anti-imperialist independent forces; in particular, the US imperialists, who had emerged as the only superpower in the world, were more tenacious than ever in the pursuit of their policy of aggression and war, in an attempt to realize their ambition of world supremacy, wielding the power of authority and arbitrariness in the international arena and violently encroaching upon the sovereignty of other countries.”
In the 1990s after the great leader President KIM IL SUNG had passed away the DPRK had to face not only the sanctions and pressure of the wicked US imperialists but also the disappearance of the world socialist market and unprecedented natural disasters which wiped out 80% of the rice crop. The situation was critical, Korea stood at the crossroads. The imperialists along with the traitors, renegades, revisionists and reformists hoped that People's Korea would abandon the great Juche Idea and go in for “reform “and ! “opening up “like a certain big country had. The Western countries through different unofficial channels sent messages to the DPRK telling them toreform” and “open up “ saying that if they did so they would be given large amounts of aid by the Western imperialists but the great generalissimo KIM JONG IL declared “Expect No Change from Me“. KIM JONG IL rejected the idea of opening up saying
It is important to educate the third and fourth generations of the revolution effectively, because they have experienced neither trials nor suffering . We must get them to drink the syrup made from the blueberries of Mt Paektu , not Coca Cola. In other words , we must imbue them thoroughly with the revolutionary ideology of our Party so that they are not swayed in the slightest by the wind of bourgeois liberalisation "

I think the above quote is absolutely brilliant and if only there had been more leaders like KIM JONG IL in the world there would still be a billion and a half strong socialist camp and no “reform “ or “opening up in some countries.

Visiting the Takabasol (Dwarf pine) army base on the 1st of January 1995 generalissimo KIM JONG IL declared that the Korean people had a choice whether to remain independent guards or become colonial slaves of the imperialists, in order to defend independence Korea must pursue Songun politics!

The KPA and Korean people under the leadership of the great leader comrade KIM JONG IL faced down the US imperialists when they clamoured over the nuclear issue. The DPRK threw a nuclear thunderbolt of Songun at the imperialists by successfully testing a nuclear device. The KPA smashed the provocations of the south Korean puppets and US imperialists at Yongphyong island thereby defending world peace and socialism. Thus the Songun politics of KIM JONG IL were the treasured sword of victory and the symbol of defence of socialism that inspired the world revolutionary Peoples.

KIM JONG IL was also a great theoretician of the world revolution who not only developed the Juche Idea and Songun Idea but elaborated comprehensive theories on modern imperialism. Two poles of error had arisen in the relation to the theoretical understanding of imperialism . One was the revisionist or Right opportunist theory which asserted that imperialism was no longer aggressive and that people should give up the struggle against it and co-operate. At the other extreme was the dogmatic theory that there had no been no change in the structure of imperialism .. Whilst at university in the 1960s
KIM JONG IL wrote the thesis The Characteristics of Modern imperialism and Its Aggressive Nature in which he said :

Modern imperialism is imperialism based not merely on monopolistic domination but whose political and economic basis is state-controlled monopolistic capitalism, depending not on old colonialism but on neo-colonialism. existing not in parallel with each other but reorganized in subordinate relation with US imperialism as the ringleader, and not growing in strength but making a last-ditch effort even while declining rapidly to its downfall “.

So basically there were no longer parallel competing imperialist powers but instead a pyramid type structure with US imperialism at the top . Thus in order to  defeat imperialism the spearhead of struggle must be directed against the US.

Later in 1987 KIM JONG IL brilliantly attacked the sheer decadence of modern imperialism saying
As the marketing channels are clogged to a greater extent, capitalists are moving towards deforming the material life of people by creating an artificial inhuman demand. They are manufacturing a variety of things to stimulate extravagance, corruption and dissipation and to paralyse the human body and mind, with the result that the number of drug addicts, alcoholics, as well as degenerates pursuing abnormal desires, is growing rapidly and people are becoming mentally and physically deformed. Even the defenders of the bourgeoisie are lamenting and calling this phenomenon an incurable disease of modern capitalism. The capitalists are frenziedly spreading reactionary and anti-popular ideas and culture, as well as the decadent bourgeois way of life, in order to paralyse the working masses،¯ consciousness of independence and to make people submit to the capitalist exploiting system. In capitalist countries all manner of reactionary ideology and superstition which, like a narcotic, numb the sound mind of the people and make them ignorant, are widespread. The way of life in which the weak fall prey to the strong is fostered and, as a result, such social evils as immorality and depravity, murder and robbery are rampant and people are trembling with fear and apprehension. Thus, in capitalist society the mental life of the people becomes all the more intolerable with the increase in material wealth. “


No other leader produced such a sharp and incisive analysis of modern capitalist society which is so true and absolutely spot on.


To conclude the great leader generalissimo KIM JONG IL is rightly acclaimed as the shinging star by the Korean and world people because the Juche Idea and Songun Idea and his theories on world revolution illuminate the way forward. Thus we pay a high tribute to KIM JONG IL on the occasion of the anniversary of his birth .

GLORY TO THE MEMORY OF THE GREAT LEADER GENERALISSIMO
KIM JONG IL


Dermot Hudson
ASSPUK
JISGE

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