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“Man is a social being who works independently, creatively and consciously.”

Book:Giving Priority to Ideological Work is Essential for Accomplishing Socialism

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Giving Priority to Ideological Work is Essential for Accomplishing Socialism

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Kim Jong Il

Kim Jong Il, the former Supreme Leader of North Korea, was born on February 16, 1941, and died on December 17, 2011. He had significant influence over North Korea's political, military, and economic affairs and was a core figure in the Workers' Party of Korea. more

“The fact that a brush is depicted in the Party emblem together with a hammer and sickle clearly shows that our party defines intellectuals as an integral part along with workers and peasants. It was our Party alone which regarded intellectuals as a part of the main revolutionary force from the first days of revolution and depicted a brush in its emblem along with a hammer and a sickle.”

Kim Jong Il Dprk Juche

Book:Let us Further Enhance the Role of Intellectuals in the Revolution and Construction

Source: Let us Further Enhance the Role of Intellectuals in the Revolution and Construction

“Totalitarianism served as the political idea of fascist dictators. Notorious Hitler in Germany and Mussolini in Italy used totalitarianism as an ideological tool to justify their fascist dictatorship. The fascist dictators stamped out even the most elementary democratic freedom and rights of the masses of the working people and enforced unprecedentedly tyrannical policies, behind the misleading name of "national socialism", claiming that for the sake of the whole nation and the whole state no working-class movement and no class struggle could be permitted. The reactionary nature of totalitarianism is that the interests of the working people are sacrificed for the sake of the rapacious interests of the reactionary ruling class under the pretence that the individual should be subordinated to the whole. What is meant by the whole in totalitarianism is not the whole of the popular masses but a tiny handful of privileged circles such as monopoly capitalists, major landowners, reactionary bureaucrats and warlords.”

Socialism Kim Jong Il Dprk

Book:Abuses of Socialism are Intolerable

Source: Abuses of Socialism are Intolerable

“Anti-communism was in such fervor in the west, and the value of Asian lives so little regarded, that even genocidal actions against East Asian populations could be somewhat condoned in the war against a communist Asian power.”

History Imperialism Geopolitics Korean War Dprk

Author:A.B. Abrams, Immovable Object: North Korea's 70 Years At War with American Power

“All of us, even the sophisticated, yearn for permanence, and to the unsophisticated permanence is the chief excuse for a work of art.”