International Marxist Group Archive

Magazines, bulletins and booklets of the IMG and its forerunners, 1961–1984

North Korean Communist journal attacks liberalisation

The Bulletin Vol. 3, No. 18, 18 November 1963 · p. 8 of the scan · 274 words

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1892 Feiece Keunro j Keunro ja, journal of the Central Committees of the Korean Vorkers! Party

da long article in its number 20 issue entitled "Communist Education and Class Education.” It was mainly concerned with the "fight against revisionian" and as such was largely a reiteration of the well-known Chinese arguments. However,one interesting passage made a trenchant attack on the so-called liberalisation which has occurrod in a number of workors states. It reads

",eelt is to "liberalise" the country to permit the infiltration and fostering of bourgeois ideology and bourgeois way of life. "Liberalisation" of the country moans to allow tho fostering of the bourgecis rolations in social, ideological and political life as well as material life, and the weakening of proletarian disciplina, This gravely menaces the prolatarian dictatorship, hampers the development of the socialist system and runs entirely counter to the enhancement of socialist democracy, "Liberalisation" of the country manns precisely the so-called "“psaceful evolution" in socialist countries, which the imperialists are going all out to translate into reality.

"Liberalisation" of the country, as is ovidenced by the reality of Yugoslavia, may directly bring the restoration of capitalism, may provide the ground for a counter-revolutionary flare-up. Under such circumstances, noth— ing is more absurd and harmful than clamouring about the final-victory of socialism, while abandoning ideological struggle against imperialism and egoting the class education of the working people, Rejecting class struggle and revolutionary struggle, modern revisionists praise the “liberalisation" of the country as the enhancement of some sort of democracy, and poison the masses with anti-marxist views, denying the class character of dictatorship by counterposing it to democracy and rejecting the proletarian dictatorshipe.."

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