“The former Soviet Union began to collapse after the modern revisionists took power. They abandoned the principles of party building and systematically weakened the party.
“Consequently, the leading elements of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, while clamouring for a “new way of thinking,” at last accepted cosmopolitanism as asserted by the imperialists.
“The US imperialists have long since used cosmopolitanism as the ideological means for realizing their ambition for world domination. While Stalin was in power, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union fought resolutely against cosmopolitanism. No sooner had the US imperialists put forward cosmopolitanism than Stalin seemed to have already perceived that its purpose was to realize their strategy of “peaceful transition” aimed at dominating the world. When the tendency toward cosmopolitanism appeared in the field of Soviet art and literature following the Second World War, Zhdanov, a follower of Stalin, went among writers, artists, and the people and emphasized the need for them to fight resolutely against it.
“A “new way of thinking,” asserted by the leading elements of the former Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was the capitulationist way of thinking. To give up fighting against the imperialists and to live and cooperate with them—this is precisely the content of their “new way of thinking.” Living together with the imperialists while cooperating with them in the long run means surrendering to them. The nature of imperialism never changes. Imperialism means monopolistic capitalism—this is a proposition advanced by Lenin. If imperialism based on monopolistic capital is left to its own devices unopposed, it will naturally go on invading and plundering other countries.
“The leaders of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, however, preached cooperation with the imperialists, harbouring illusions about them, and so led the Soviet Union to ruin, unable to withstand the anti-socialist attack by the imperialists. It is hardly imaginable that the Soviet Union, which built socialism for over 70 years, has collapsed in a day.
“The renegade socialists who ruined the Soviet Union do not have a national conscience, still less dignity as communists.1
Kim Il Sung
REFERENCES
1Kim Il sung, Volume 43, p338
Kim Il Sungs Works can be found at https://www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/index.htm
