KCNA
Korean-style socialism is giving full play to its advantages despite the evermore undisguised moves of the imperialists to invade, isolate and stifle the DPRK as it is embodying collectivism. Rodong Sinmun today says this in a signed article. It goes on:
Collectivism is the life and soul of socialism, which means that victory and defeat of socialism depend on how collectivism is applied. Socialism can fully display its dignity and might and guarantee its triumphant advance only when it is based on collectivism.
| What's socialism without collective thought, collective action, collective starvation? |
The driving force of the Korean revolution has been remarkably strengthened and uninterrupted miracles and upsurge have been effected in the building of a great prosperous powerful nation under such grim circumstances as today because the DPRK has thoroughly applied collectivism into all the fields of socialist construction, taking hold on it.
| "If we hadn't applied the principles of collectivism, we'd be backward and undeveloped. We started on the road to collectivism at the same time South Korea started on the road to capitalist depravity. Just look how much better we turned out! We're much daintier than they are!" |
Collectivism is the basic cornerstone of single-hearted unity and unbounded devotion and self-sacrifice spirit with which all the members of the society dedicate their youth and life to the Party, the leader, the country and the people and care and value each other as comrades on the road to do so.
| "Or else we kill them. Pretty simple, huh?" |
All the army and the people are firmly united as a rank of Songun revolutionary comrades who are sharing the idea, intention and the same destiny with the headquarters of the revolution for the society and collective, and the whole society forms a large revolutionary family. This is a real picture of our society and such single-hearted unity makes our socialism so strong and viable. To thoroughly apply the collective principle is a firm guarantee to defend and advance the socialist system. The socialist system emerges victorious if the collective principle, its fundamental demand, is defended, and collapses if it is abandoned. In order to win victory of socialism in the life and death struggle, collectivism should be more comprehensively applied.
| I give it a 6.5. Strong Songun/Army First Policy with the obligatory reference to Single Hearted Unity™. Points deducted for no mention of Juche or aphorism about Dear Leader. |
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