"Report at the 20th Anniversary Celebration of the Founding of the D.P.R.K.
September 7, 1968"

Selected Works, vol. 5
Foreign Language Publishing House
Pyonyang, Korea, 1972

[MC5 comments: Like many people in the world who put geopolitical alliances ahead of
the importance of the mode of production in each country, Kim Il Sung called state-capitalist
countries "socialist" and covered up for the bourgeoisie in the party. His calls for unity in the socialist camp included the Soviet Union and amounted a call for unity with the bourgeoisie, including Khruschev and Brezhnev, under whom Gorbachev and Yeltsin prospered.

Inter-state alliances need not be formed on the basis of false statements about the mode of production that disarm the revolutionary struggle of the people. Stalin never said England was "socialist" when Stalin united with England against Hitler. Later, in 1978, Kim took up the position of targetting "dominationism" as the enemy and changed geopolitical alliances. Still there was no real conclusion drawn on modes of production.]

[pages 178-180]
"The unity and cohesion of the socialist camp are an important guarantee for firmly defending each socialist state against imperialist aggression and for ensuring the final victory of the socialist revolution for the socialist camp as a whole.

"The existence of the socialist camp and its united forces constitute an essential factor that is decisive to the destiny, not only of the peoples of the socialist countries, but of mankind as a whole. The solution to all the problems of the world revolution at the present time depends largely on the united efforts of the socialist countries.

"Only by steadily strengthening the unshakable unity and might of the socialist camp, can we successfully expedite the cause of socialism and communism. Only in this way can we provide powerful support and encouragement to the anti-imperialist national-liberation struggle of the peoples in the colonial and dependent countries and newly independent countries and the revolutionary struggle of the working class in the capitalist countries.

"Unity is the mightiest weapon of the working class. Since its first days in the arena of history, the working class has always regarded unity as its most precious weapon in the struggle against international capital, and on the strength of unity it has won arduous struggles. Even today, the success of the world revolutionary movement in breaking the chains of capitalism which are linked together internationally, can be won only by the united force of the international communist movement based on the principle of proletarian internationalism. It can be firmly guaranteed only by strengthening, in the first place, the unity of its centre, the socialist camp. . . .

"Differences may arise between fraternal parties and countries. Differences may come either from the different historical and geographical conditions within which the activities of the fraternal parties and countries are carried out and from their different national duties or from their mistaken conception of Marxist-Leninist principles and their lack of a consistent revolutionary stand. Such differences do not represent any contradiction between the differing state and social systems nor do they mean fundamentally incompatible interests between hostile classes. However serious they may be, the differences between the socialist countries are an internal affair of the socialist camp and the international communist movement; they are a problem which should be solved through the method of ideological struggle proceeding from the desire for unity of class brothers. The fraternal parties and states, the class comrades-in-arms who should share liife and death, the sweet and the bitter in the struggle for the common cause of socialism and communism, should never feud and quarrel or be antagonistic to each other because of ideological differences. Communists should always be able to distinguish between class brothers and class enemies and should under no circumstances depart from the class point of view. The international communist movement cannot exist and the socialist camp is inconceivable without the principle of class solidarity. If fraternal countries feud and quarrel and are antagonistic to each other, it can only gladden the imperialists and bring losses to the international communist movement.

"Communists cannot remain indifferent to this grave situation that affects the very existence of the socialist camp and the destiny of the world revolution. Splits should be healed and unity should be safeguarded and strengthened."