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Why does our ideological work suffer from dogmatism and formalism? And why do our propagandists and agitators fail to go deeply into matters, only embellishing the façade, and why do they merely copy and memorize foreign things, instead of working creatively?
On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work, also known as the "Juche speech", was a speech delivered on 28 December 1955 by Kim Il Sung. The address mentioned his Juche ideology by name for the first time.
supplant Marxism‐Leninism as the central official state ideology. In this 1955 speech, entitled “On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work,” Kim explained what he meant by juche (“subjectivity” in literal translation) and why
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Feb 8, 2023 · In reality, the use of the term in North Korean political discourse dates back to factional politics in the mid-1950s and Kim Il Sung’s December 1955 speech to Korean Workers’ Party propagandists and agitators titled, “On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work.”
culture.6 Delivering "On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing the Subject in Ideological Work" in 1955, he targeted Pak as a foreigner who was running counter to the fundamental national require ments of the Korean revolution and associating with "reactionary bourgeois" writers.
Sung, Kim Il, “On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work,” in Kim, , Works, vol. 9 (Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1981), 395–417Google Scholar
In a 1955 speech titled “On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work,” Kim Il-sung had brought up juche to encourage Koreans to prioritize one’s identity as a Korean and, as a Korean, to prioritize Korean national interests.7 A historical view of the peninsula also contextualizes North Korea’s desire
