“Juche_is_Good”?

Glad you asked, let’s have a look 1/? https://twitter.com/juche_is_good/status/1357142165655195649
Probably, first thing to address would be the nationalist aspect of Juche. In Kim Jong Il’s essay, “on nationalism”, he declared nationalism a beautiful thing to be celebrated 🤨 Pretty un-Marxist, no? I mean, just ask Stalin 2/
"Nationalism, as a bourgeois ideology, is antagonistic to Marxism. It must be clear that Marxism cannot reconcile with nationalism... and that we must eliminate nationalism in whatever form it covers itself."

There is no proletarian nationalism
But the Juche Idea of nationalism isn’t just content being anti-Marxist, no, it has to be ethnocentric too

“The Idea of a Multinational, Multiracial Society Means Destruction of the Korean Nation”, the headline of an article printed by the DPRK state newspaper in 2006
Let’s ask Stalin again:

“The working class and its internationalist party: An alliance... within the nation for the elimination of the survivals of nationalism in order that friendship may be knit between the peoples and internationalism firmly established."
How could such an open rejection of the Marxist commitment internationalism and embrace of bourgeois, reactionary, racist nationalism (which is, of course, central to the Juche state ideology) ever be considered “good”?
As if this wasn’t bad enough, it doesn’t stop here tho

Let’s have a look at some more of their revisionist nonsense in different areas of their ideology
At a Korean delegation to Moscow in 1961, Kim Il-Sung declared a “complete identity of views” between himself and Krushchev, whilst Krushchev was already well on his way to tearing apart everything that the soviet people had built towards socialism
The same communique declares the USSR the ” … the universally recognised vanguard of the world Communist movement”, a nation which was currently engaged in intense state capitalist social imperialism against asia and eastern europe
“The establishment of the power of the proletarian dictatorship by force was followed as a last resort in some countries, … In the northern half (of Korea … this was not necessary” - open rejection of basic Marxist revolutionary theory (dictatorship of the proletariat)
“A Democratic People’s Republic … must be built by forming a democratic united front … which embraces … even the national capitalists” (Kim Il Sung: ‘On the Building of New Korea’)

Class collaboration = revisionist, always
^^ “The class of proletarians … does not and cannot share power with other classes”, (J. V Stalin: ‘Concerning Questions of Leninism’)
“The entrepreneurs and traders of our country are fellow- travellers … not only in carrying out the democratic revolution but also in socialist construction” - Il Sung

more than contradicts

“ … the proletariat pushes aside the national bourgeoisie” - Stalin
“From the beginning our policy in regard to the national bourgeoisie was not only to carry out the anti-imperialist, anti-feudal democratic revolution together with them, but also to take them along with us to a socialist, communist society” - Il Sung

Like, seriously???
The Juche Idea has always been centred around a complete abandonment of basic Marxism-Leninism and an obsessive focus on ultranationalism to the point of rejecting internationalism to rehabilitate the national bourgeoise
“The State shall encourage institutions, enterprises and organisations in our country to joint ventures and cooperation of enterprise with foreign corporations and individuals”. (‘Socialist Constitution of the DPRK’)

How much more do you need to read?
“It is not objective conditions but man that plays the decisive role in the development of history” - Il Sung

Literally could not get more revisionist lol
Straight up pissing all over Marxism and materialism and embracing great man theory

But it gets worse
in Sung’s essay “On the Juche Idea”, he openly declares that “development of materialism and dialectics does not constitute the basic content of the Juche philosophy.”

I mean, how much more obviously revisionist can you get?
Please, for the love of god, stop associating yourself with Juche.

Fin.
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