The Marmot’s Hole

I can’t seem to recall how I managed to surf onto this site, but the avowedly Stalinist* Alliance Marxist-Leninist has a rather long and well-documented (if you consider references to Soviet, Albanian and North Korean materials “well-documented”) critique of North Korea’s “revisionist” Juche ideology that has to be one of the trippiest things I’ve ever read. Before you light up a joint (absolutely essential in this case) and read it in full, allow me to give you a taster of what you’re in for:

As always - all the democratic, progressive, peace-loving forces world-wide have the obligation to step up their unconditional support for the just cause of Korea?????s independence. This goal can only be achieved by dismantling US military bases in the Korean peninsula, by sending American soldiers back to their homes in the USA and by breaking off all links of dependence on US imperialism. Once outside interference is eliminated, the military demarcation line, which has tragically bisected brothers and sisters of the same blood for such a long time, would soon disappear. The way would be opened towards a peaceful settlement of the Korean national question which is, after all, an internal affair of the Korean people themselves.

While resolutely supporting Korean reunification and independence, it is also up to the Marxist-Leninist parties and organisations to tackle the issue of Korean revisionism - as it has developed in North Korea since 1945, without having been affected by the final collapse of the USSR and other revisionist countries during the late eighties. By having creatively applied and modified socialist principles to Korea?????s specific conditions, the DPRK claims to have established a socialist society that proceeds towards communism by means of Juche or Kimilsungism.

Nonetheless, the only revolutionary compass in the hands of the working class in order to advance towards socialist, and ultimately communist, societies still remains Marxism-Leninism - i.e., the doctrine of scientific socialism as elaborated by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin. It is, therefore, from a Marxist-Leninist perspective that the conclusion must be drawn about the undisputed fact that revisionism only, and not genuine socialism, has been thoroughly implemented in the DPRK up to the present.

I should also give credit for the eye-pleasing color scheme — nothing expresses “class struggle” quite as well as bold red text on a black background (even if the green highlighted text is a little disconcerting, albeit effective in drawing attention to salient points).

* When I say “avowedly Stalinist,” I’m not just being a wise ass. I mean, they really are Stalinists. This is from their self-introduction:

We are strongly linked to the COMMUNIST LEAGUE of Britain (CL) (Web-Site: “Communist League”;), which arose to fight the so-called “Peaceful Road To Socialism”; in which the revisionists of the British CP cravenly followed in the steps of Khruschev. This was formed and was lead by Comrade Bill Bland up till his death in 2001. We include several key CL articles.

Both the CL and Alliance have long argued that a dispassionate international debate amongst Marxist-Leninists is essential to clarify the historical positions of Marxist-Leninists.