What is Juche? How did it become the state ideology of Korea? Why is best korea so fucked up.
Asians are kindve like ants. Get a charismatic enough leader and they'll go hive mind and blindly follow
>>886293
>Why is best korea so fucked up.
relying on an unstable superpower for assistance.
>>886311
not anymore, even china is fucking them up now
>>886293
>What is Juche?
Korean National Socialism branded as Marxism-Leninism. Some note the similarities to Imperial Japanese propaganda as well, which Koreans were heavily exposed to back when they were annexed.
>How did it become the state ideology of Korea?
It was promoted by the Great Leader because it deifies the Great Leader.
>Why is best korea so fucked up.
Because of Juche.
Just kidding, worst corea is fucked up too.
>>886306
>Asians are kindve like ants. Get a charismatic enough leader and they'll go hive mind and blindly follow
Lel, Historically charismatic leadership has been Europe's schtick. More so latin America. I mean Europeans just love the whole democratic/participative/individualist politics thing where an individual leader and his image matters
In much of East Asia a government only becomes popular by the ff conditions
>Is it doing it's job? Are we not starving? Facing unrest? Poverty?
And thats it. Shit, for most of East Asian history could not even see the Emperor nor does the Emperor make public appearances. Save Korea since they were a bloody kingdom.
Personality Cult dictators in East Asia is a recent thing, brought to Asians by European Communists. And even then you can only count the number of East Asian Charismatic Dictators with A hand or a pair.
>>886293
Juche is ostentatiously the official ideology of North Korea.
In reality, there's no ideology to speak of. Aside from vague things like a call for absolute autarchy, need to be obedient to the sacred Kim family, and finally the bizarre, almost religious variant of Korean nationalism. The Juche is in fact whatever the NoKo government thinks is handy at the moment to sell for the masses and outside observes in deliberately vague, almost nonsensical words.
There are three major schools of thought regarding the origins of the juche ideology. The first of these is the instrumental perspective, which emphasizes domestic and international relations factors. The second perspective focuses on the influence of traditional Korean politics. The last viewpoint considers juche to be original political thought stemming directly from the life experiences of Kim Il Sung.
The juche idea is a Weltanschauung, or world view, that affirms the penultimate value of man’s interests. According to juche ideology, man has ultimate control over the world and of his own destiny because he alone has chajusong, or creativity and consciousness. Adherents to the juche philosophy claim that this view pointof man as dominating and reshaping the world is a unique contribution of juche ideology to the body of philosophical knowledge. Despite this claim to originality, there is nothing particularly revolutionary or novel in the tenetsof the juche philosophy.
The juche ideology that is trumpeted by North
Korea as Kim Il Sung’s ingenious and original
contribution to the body of political philosophy
is really drawn from a centuries-old tradition of
Korean political thought. Kim himself has
acknowledged that he drew the term and idea of
juche from Korean scholars in the early twentieth
century, who in turn drew inspiration from
Confucian ideas dating back to the original state
philosophy of independence espoused by Korean
rulers. The tradition of strong nationalism among
the Korean people coexisted with another tradition
called sadaechuii, in which the Confucian palace
officials and educated elite groups jockeyed for
foreign support through sycophancy.31 Kim’s
juche ideology may represent his reaction to the
slave mentality of sadaechuii as well as an
indebtedness to the original nationalistic strain
of Korean political culture.
Source: "The Political Philosophy of Juche" - Grace Lee
I'll toss out some other stuff too.
'The theory of Juche literature is a new theory that clearly reflects
the aspirations and demands of the masses to accomplish the cause of
independence, the ideal of mankind. Only when this theory is
adhered to can our socialist national literature thoroughly preserve its
purity and revolutionary character, and steadily improve its militant
function and role as a powerful ideological weapon that contributes
greatly to accomplishing the cause of independence for the masses."
- Kim Jong Il from "On Juche Literature" 1992
"
This paper has argued that Juche is not
a Marxist ideology, and in that light it is interesting to note that even
at the very birth of the DPRK, the North Korean leadership’s allegiance
to Marxism-Leninism did not supersede more compelling
nationalist interests such as the desire to rid the country of Japanese
elements.
[...]
Bruce Cumings notes that
Korea “took from Marxism-Leninism what it wanted and rejected
much of the rest,” and his statement accurately portrays the circumstances
surrounding the development of Juche. "
Christopher Hale - "Multifunctional Juche: A study of changing dynamic between juche and the state constitution in north korea"
"I once referred to the need to correctly understand the originality of the Juche idea
because in the past some social scientists tended to explain this idea in the framework
of Marxist dialectical materialism, but it seems to me that they still do not have a
correct understanding of this problem.
[...]
Some articles explaining the Juche idea write that social wealth also belongs to the
social being. However, it is a wrong viewpoint to identify man with social wealth
created by him.
Man is a social being. This implies that he is a being who lives in a social
relationship. This term is used to distinguish man from natural being. As man is a
social being, he has independence, creativity and consciousness, attributes which are
peculiar to him and which other material beings cannot have. However, if the wealth
created by man is also considered to belong to the social being, there will be no
fundamental differences between man and wealth and it will be impossible to give an
answer to the question of on what the essential characteristics peculiar to man are
based.
[...]
We say that independence is the lifeblood of people and particularly stress that
realizing socio-political independence is a matter of priority in the struggle to achieve
independence for the popular masses. When we say that independence is the lifeblood
of people, we mean socio-political independence. However rich a man is in the material
aspect, he can never claim to lead a life as befits a man if it is not worthwhile in the
social and political spheres as well as in the ideological and cultural fields. Political life
and ideological life play a leading and decisive role in social life. Therefore,
underestimating the principal significance of political life and ideological life, and only
emphasizing that the three kinds of life have each their own importance is of no use in
practice."
- Kim Jong Il - "On having a Correct Viewpoint and Understanding of the juche philosophy" - 1990 engrish edition
>>886306
>Asians are kindve like ants. Get a charismatic enough leader and they'll go hive mind and blindly follow
Thank Gord nothing like that could ever happen in Americuh!
"
“The people are my God” has been my constant view and
motto. The principle of Juche, which calls for drawing on the
strength of the masses who are the masters of the revolution and
construction, is my political creed. This has been the axiom that
has led me to devote my whole life to the people.
[...]
Urged by this impulse, I tried to enunciate the idea we now
call Juche in a draft report. What I intended to write in that draft
report concerned the serious problems facing our revolution.
I gave a particularly great deal of thought to the question of
the armed struggle.
In my draft report I put it forward as the basic line of the anti-
Japanese national liberation struggle, as the foremost task for the
Korean communists, to wage a comprehensive anti-Japanese war.
[...]
We could proclaim the new path for the Korean revolution in
Kalun because already in the course of the youth and student
movement launched in our days in Jilin we had established the
Juche stand on and attitude towards the Korean revolution and
cleared a new path for the communist movement. I made public in
The Path of the Korean Revolution the idea and standpoint I had
perceived in my days of struggle and elaborated in prison.
This has become the line of our revolution and its guiding
idea.
We can say that the content of the treatise was based entirely
on the Juche idea.
[...]
I delivered a speech on eliminating dogmatism and the
worship of the great powers and establishing Juche to Party
propaganda and agitation workers in 1955. It was made public in
the document On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and
Establishing Juche in Ideological Work.
[...]
But I never thought of systematizing it and publishing it in
book form. If our people accepted the idea as just and
implemented it in their revolutionary practice, I was satisfied.
Later Secretary Kim Jong Il systematized the idea in a
comprehensive manner and published his treatise On the Juche
Idea."
Kim Il Sung - "With the Century"
>>886382
Like every ideology autocratic governments came up with since classical times
