"On the role ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the
nation-state in Juche, according to Kim Il-sung’s “On the Questions ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the Period ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ Transition from Capitalism to Socialism and the Dictatorship ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the Proletariat” (1967) and Kim Jong-il’s “On Preserving the Juche Character and National Character ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the Revolution and Construction” (1997), the goal ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ revolution and construction under Juche is the establishment ************SPAM/BANNEAR************
socialism and
communism within the national borders ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ North Korea. Contrary to the perspectives ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ classical
Marxism,
Juche also maintains that Koreans are a blood-based national community, that the Korean nation-state will remain forever, and that Koreans will always live in Korea and speak Korean.""Despite the
nationalism ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ Juche, North Korean
ideologists have argued that other countries can and should learn from Juche and adapt its principles to their national conditions. The North Korean government admits that Juche addresses questions previously considered in
classical Marxism and its subsequent developments in Soviet Marxism-Leninism,
but now distances itself from and even repudiates aspects ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ these political philosophies.The official position as maintained in Kim Jong-il’s “The Juche Philosophy Is an Original Revolutionary Philosophy” (1996)
is that Juche is a completely new ideology created by Kim Il-sung, who does not depend on the Marxist classics. As a result, the North Korean Constitution has no mention ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ Marxism-Leninism, but rather occupies its entire preamble with statements about Kim Il-sung."
"While advocating that Juche is tailored to the national peculiarities ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ North Korea, as opposed to conforming to the premises ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ classical Marxist
international socialism (i.e.,
the workers ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the world have no nation and
workers ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the world, unite), the North Korean government does make some reference to the classical internationalists
Karl Marx and
Frederick Engels, their follower
Vladimir Lenin, and his successor
Joseph Stalin as creditable leaders ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ the socialist movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries before the advent ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ Juche in 1955. By contrast, Maoism is rarely mentioned, and Deng Xiaoping's
ideology for economic reform is basically suppressed in its entirety by the Kim Jong-Il regime.
In addition, the writings ************SPAM/BANNEAR************ classical Marxism are generally forbidden for lay readers in North Korea. All references to communism has been removed from the 2009 constitution"
