The principle of placing main stress on ideology is to solve all problems arising in the revolution and construction by displaying fully the consciousness of the popular masses.
Leader Kim Jong Il said.
“The popular masses’ consciousness of independence plays a decisive role in the revolutionary movement. Therefore, in the revolution and construction one must place the main stress on ideology and give priority over all work to the remoulding of ideology, the political work, which is aimed at raising the consciousness and activeness of the masses.”
Giving priority to ideological remoulding and giving precedence to political work are the main contents of the principle to place main stress on ideology.
Giving priority to the remoulding of ideology is the guiding principle to solve all problems arising in the revolution and construction by displaying fully the consciousness of the popular masses.
Giving priority to the remoulding of ideology means putting before others the work of remoulding of ideology to transform people into genuine social men.
The transformation of man is, in essence, ideological remoulding. Thoughts define men’s worth and quality and, accordingly, ideological remodeling is of the utmost importance in the transformation of man.
Since ideological remoulding is more difficult and complicated than the change of people’s conditions of material life or the enhancement of their cultural and technical standards, one must pay bigger efforts to the ideological remoulding and put it before all other works.
The main thing in ideological remoulding is the establishment of a revolutionary world outlook, the outlook on the revolution.
The Juche outlook on the revolution is the Juche-oriented viewpoint and attitude towards the revolution the popular masses should possess as the masters of the revolution. The Juche outlook on the revolution is the viewpoint and attitude to the revolution which place the popular masses in the centre and the revolutionary spirit to fight vigorously for the masses.
Establishing the Juche outlook on the revolution means understanding correctly the essence and basic aim of the revolution and the way for its realization and keeping as faith the preparedness and will to devote all to the revolution.
In order to establish the Juche outlook on the revolution, it is important to arm ourselves with the Juche idea and possess the staunch revolutionary spirit.
Only the people who armed themselves with the Juche idea and possessed the staunch revolutionary spirit can keep to the end their faith and principle even on the isolated islet and develop themselves into the true revolutionary fighters loyal to the Party and the leader.
In order to establish the Juche outlook on the revolution, it is important to have correct viewpoint and attitude to the subject of the revolution.
As the subject of the revolution is integrity of the leader, the party, the army and the people, it is imperative to have proper outlook on the leader, the organization and the masses in order to have a correct viewpoint and attitude to the subject of the revolution. As the subject of the revolution is the socio-political integrity sharing the same destiny, it is also important to establish revolutionary view of morality.
Revolutionary outlook on the leader is the nucleus of the Juche outlook on the revolution.
Whether one correctly established the Juche outlook on the revolution or not is proved intensively by how the revolutionary outlook on the leader is established.
If the Juche outlook on the revolution is to be one’s firm faith, one must make it the outlook on life.
Making the outlook on the revolution the outlook on life means accepting the outlook on the revolution as the demand of one’s life and firm faith and making it a daily life to live and work as required by the outlook on the revolution.
Giving precedence to political work is the guiding principle to solve all problems arising in the revolution and construction by fully displaying consciousness of the popular masses.
Giving precedence to political work means giving precedence to educating and arousing the masses before all other work. The essence of the work to give precedence to political work is to carry out the revolutionary struggle and construction work by equipping the popular masses with party’s policy and arousing their revolutionary zeal first so that the masses will demonstrate a high degree of consciousness and activity by themselves.
Giving precedence to political work is the method of placing stress on their ideology and arousing it to mobilize the masses to the implementation of the revolutionary tasks and is the basic principle to be firmly maintained in the revolutionary struggle and construction work.
Giving precedence to political work is the intrinsic demand of the socialist society which is developing by dint of the high revolutionary zeal and creative initiatives of the working masses.
What is important in implementing the principle of giving precedence to political work is to put political work before others and combine it properly with administrative and business affairs and technical and economic work.
The building of socialism is a highly organized undertaking which involves the whole society and is conducted in a planned manner. This is complex work which is based on modern science and technology, and therefore, meticulous administrative and organizational work and scientific technical and economic work are indispensable for the building of socialism.
What is important in implementing the principle of giving precedence to political work is to put the main emphasis on political and moral incentive and correctly combine this with material incentive.
It is necessary to put main emphasis on political and moral incentive in the socialist society. Only then, is it possible to stimulate the popular masses into demonstrating conscious enthusiasm in work with a correct attitude befitting the masters of the revolution.
What is important in implementing the principle of giving precedence to political work is to conduct political work by relying on the scientific and revolutionary method.
Political work should be done through persuasion and education and in an original way by applying various forms and methods.
Political work should be conducted in such a way that the masses regard it as their own affair. Political work should be closely combined with revolutionary practice.
