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   SPECIAL 03 09 13 Superpower Death Watch   
      
   WHAT THE SUPERPOWER’S    
   DECLARATION OF WORLD $LAVERY    
   MEANS   
      
      
      
      
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   ABUSES OF SOCIALISM ARE INTOLERABLE    
      
   Kim Jong Il   
      
   Discourse Published in Kulloja, Official Magazine of the Central Committee of   
   the Workers Party of Korea March 1, 1993    
      
      
      
      
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   At a time when the imperialists and reactionaries are resorting to   
   unprecedentedly vicious schemes against socialism, many misleading statements   
   are being made about socialism.    
      
   The enemies of socialism are abusing it, calling it "totalitarian,"   
   "barracks-like" and "administrative and commanding" and are distorting the   
   facts, pretending that the setback suffered by socialism is because its nature   
   is such.    
      
   The claim that socialism is "totalitarian", "barracks-like" and    
   administrative and commanding"  is not in essence different from the   
   pernicious anti-socialist propaganda which the imperialists have conducted   
   since the first appearance of socialism in    
   the world.  The imperialists have always said that socialism is an inhuman   
   society in which there is no freedom or democracy.    
      
   The terms "totalitarian," "barracks-like" and "administrative and commanding"   
   are a repetition of the imperialists' false propaganda against socialism that   
   uses new words.  The democratic idea which a long time ago advocated freedom,   
   equality and human    
   rights, in opposition to feudal despotism, was transformed by the capitalist   
   class into bourgeois democracy, which imposed and defended exploitation and   
   subordination by capital.    
      
   The imperialists made every possible effort to embellish bourgeois democracy,   
   calling it "liberal democracy"; however, they could not conceal its falsity   
   and reactionary nature,    
      
   nor could they remove from the minds of the popular masses their aspiration   
   and longing for socialism which would provide them with genuine freedom and   
   democracy.    
      
   Nevertheless, the sophistry of its being "totalitarian," "barracks-like" and   
   "administrative and commanding," a repetition of the imperialists' vicious   
   propaganda against socialism, has in recent years caused ideological confusion   
   among the people in    
   many socialist countries.     
      
   The class enemies have even led socialism to collapse by fanning this   
   ideological confusion and misleading public opinion. The collapse of socialism   
   in many countries was an outcome of the conspiracy and collusion by the   
   imperialists and    
   counterrevolutionary forces and a result of the ideological and cultural   
   infiltration of imperialism and of the corrosive action of Right opportunist   
   ideas.    
      
   Decisive to the collapse was the role played by the counterrevolutionary   
   schemes of the renegades of socialism in those countries.    
      
   In order to stifle socialism the imperialists have for a long time been   
   perpetrating every manner of destructive move such as aggression and pressure,   
   blockade and appeasement; at the same time, they have used as their stooges   
   the degenerates and    
   traitors to the revolution who appeared in the upper strata of the communist   
   and working-class movement.    
      
   As the history of the international communist movement shows, *all the   
   ideological confusion and all the twists and turns within it are due to the   
   fact that renegades of the revolution have appeared in its upper strata*.  In   
   the historical situation in    
   which socialism had become a powerful material force, the imperialists   
   attached greater importance to the strategy of undermining it from within and   
   made vicious attempts to achieve this aim. In accordance with this strategy   
   employed by the imperialists    
      
   the abuses of socialism were taken to an unprecedented level and, at the same   
   time,    
      
   the criticism of socialism as being "totalitarian," "barracks-like" and   
   "administrative and commanding" came into being.    
      
   That such censure is a product of the imperialists' anti-socialist strategy   
   has been proved by the fact that all the criminal acts aimed at destroying   
   socialism with this as a pretext have been committed with the support of the   
   imperialists and under    
   their manipulation.  Today the schemes of the renegades to vilify socialism   
   are becoming more heinous and frantic, their aim being to justify their   
   perfidy and check the rebirth of socialism.    
      
   That they are defaming socialism by calling it "totalitarian," "barracks-like"   
   and "administrative and commanding" even now when socialism has disintegrated   
   and capitalism has revived in many countries serves as clear proof that the   
   renegades of    
   socialism are the stooges of imperialism.     
      
   It is sophistry to call socialism "totalitarian," "barracks-like" and   
   "administrative and commanding."  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.  Calling socialism,   
   under which the    
   popular masses are the masters of everything, "totalitarianism" is,   
   ultimately, a preposterous lie which identifies the most progressive idea that   
   reflects the demands of the popular masses with the reactionary idea of   
   fascist rulers.    
      
      
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