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"Too often the sociologists talk as if facts were governed by laws, while these laws do nothing but express roughly the grouping of certain facts. “There was,” says Marx, “the age which belonged to the principle and not the principle while belonged to the period. In other words, it was the principle that made the history and not the history that made the principle.” When this illusion has taken root in the mind, we begin to believe that the social movement will, in one sense, reveal itself by observation of the past, with the necessity of a natural process."
- Sorel, Necessity and Fatalism in Marxism, 1898
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Now that the 12th has come to an end let us take this time to reflect on the state sponsored sectarianism that has been put on display not only for us to see, but for the world to see. This is nothing new, it is a cog in the wheel of divide and rule, a tactic that has been practised by occupying forces for centuries, this is something we have seen used by the Germans and Belgians in Rwanda and Burundi, by the Israelis in Palestine and the British in Nigeria as well as here.
There is only one thing that has the ability to break such a tactic and that is unity, unity within the working class, unity beneath the red flag. The following of the teachings handed down to us from Wolfe Tone and Henry Joy, the battle cry of Catholic Protestant and Dissenter. This time of year is used by the state to drum up sectarian tension and this is something we must combat on each and every level that it shall raise its ugly head upon, no to sectarianism in the work place, no to sectarianism in our educational systems and no to sectarianism in our social environment, yes to workers empowerment, yes to community empowerment, yes to working class empowerment! We shall no longer be pawns in the game that is divide and rule, the people united shall never be defeated.
- RSYM ÉIRE
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Today an epidemic of hedonism is cutting a wide swath across the rest of the globe. The extreme egoism of caring only for oneself and not thinking about the younger generation has encroached very far upon the minds of many people. Some of them do not have children, alleging that they are a nuisance, and others give up the thought of marrying. Needless to say, it is a matter of personal choice whether one gets married or has children. But what pleasure is there in living without the younger generation?
— Kim Il Sung, Works, vol. 47, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Pyongyang 2008, p. 269.
Some people think that communist revolutionaries are inhuman people who care for nothing but the revolution, ignoring even their families. They are mistaken. It is the basic obligation of a man to love and respect his parents. A person who does not love his parents, spouse and children, who form the closest bonds of kinship, cannot love his country and fellow people.
— Kim Jong Il, Selected Works, vol. 9, Foreign Languages Publishing House, Pyongyang 1997, p. 63.
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“I'm amazed by what I've seen here, coming to Moscow twenty years after my first visit. Twenty years ago this country was falling apart, and strange people were walking the streets. I couldn't imagine that twenty years later questions of Traditionalism would be interpreted on such a level and with such enthusiasm... while in Western Europe Traditionalism is mainly a conservative movement, which insists on the preservation of what is or the reproduction of what was, or is sort of an alibi for many to do nothing, here, in Russia, I saw that Traditionalism is permeated by a creative, innovative spirit.”
- Claudio Mutti
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"Dear Native American, the banker-owned media tries to blame the "evil white man" but I'm sure you know that the White man didn't do it to you. The Christian man did! And before he did it to you, he did it to us, Native Europeans, and thus we have something in common.
They promised you "peace" and then they massacred you instead? Sounds familiar..
They kidnapped your children, cut their long hair and raised them to hate themselves and their own heritage in christian schools/monasteries? Sounds familiar..
They cut down your sacred trees and desecrated your sacred sites? Sounds familiar...
They imported millions of slaves to replace you in your own homeland? Sounds familiar..
They intentionally spread diseases to cut down your numbers? Sounds familiar..
They murdered your keepers of Tradition? Sounds familliar...
They claimed "God" gave them the right to steal your land and destroy your "pagan savages"? Sounds familiar...
They falsified history to make you look like the bad guys? Sounds familiar..."
- Varg Vikernes
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My Fatherland is in flames. The fire was set by the barbarians from the West, this is the land of peace and divine beauty.
They came to take everything from us.
My Fatherland is in flames. The fire was set by the barbarians from the West, this country is for the people, everything belongs to us. This is a free country there is no place for them.
My Fatherland is in pain, imposed by barbarians of the West. This is my country I spent all my days here. This is my Serbia is gave everything for her.
My Fatherland is calling me, let us all go in its defence.
Yugoslav army, the pride of the Serbian nation. Proudly march against American tyranny.
In the unity of Yugoslavia, victory smiles at us.
My Fatherland is ready, Yugoslavia my homeland.
Our Fatherland is independent, with pride I shall say that to the Western tyrants.
- Yugoslav National Army
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We stand for active ideological struggle because it is the weapon for ensuring unity within the Party and the revolutionary organizations in the interest of our fight. Every Communist and revolutionary should take up this weapon.
But liberalism rejects ideological struggle and stands for unprincipled peace, thus giving rise to a decadent, Philistine attitude and bringing about political degeneration in certain units and individuals in the Party and the revolutionary organizations.
Liberalism manifests itself in various ways.
To let things slide for the sake of peace and friendship when a person has clearly gone wrong, and refrain from principled argument because he is an old acquaintance, a fellow townsman, a schoolmate, a close friend, a loved one, an old colleague or old subordinate. Or to touch on the matter lightly instead of going into it thoroughly, so as to keep on good terms. The result is that both the organization and the individual are harmed. This is one type of liberalism.
To indulge in irresponsible criticism in private instead of actively putting forward one's suggestions to the organization. To say nothing to people to their faces but to gossip behind their backs, or to say nothing at a meeting but to gossip afterwards. To show no regard at all for the principles of collective life but to follow one's own inclination. This is a second type.
To let things drift if they do not affect one personally; to say as little as possible while knowing perfectly well what is wrong, to be worldly wise and play safe and seek only to avoid blame. This is a third type.
Not to obey orders but to give pride of place to one's own opinions. To demand special consideration from the organization but to reject its discipline. This is a fourth type.
To indulge in personal attacks, pick quarrels, vent personal spite or seek revenge instead of entering into an argument and struggling against incorrect views for the sake of unity or progress or getting the work done properly. This is a fifth type.
To hear incorrect views without rebutting them and even to hear counter-revolutionary remarks without reporting them, but instead to take them calmly as if nothing had happened. This is a sixth type.
To be among the masses and fail to conduct propaganda and agitation or speak at meetings or conduct investigations and inquiries among them, and instead to be indifferent to them and show no concern for their well-being, forgetting that one is a Communist and behaving as if one were an ordinary non-Communist. This is a seventh type.
To see someone harming the interests of the masses and yet not feel indignant, or dissuade or stop him or reason with him, but to allow him to continue. This is an eighth type.
To work half-heartedly without a definite plan or direction; to work perfunctorily and muddle along--"So long as one remains a monk, one goes on tolling the bell." This is a ninth type.
To regard oneself as having rendered great service to the revolution, to pride oneself on being a veteran, to disdain minor assignments while being quite unequal to major tasks, to be slipshod in work and slack in study. This is a tenth type.
To be aware of one's own mistakes and yet make no attempt to correct them, taking a liberal attitude towards oneself. This is an eleventh type.
We could name more. But these eleven are the principal types.
They are all manifestations of liberalism.
Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is a corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy and creates dissension. It robs the revolutionary ranks of compact organization and strict discipline, prevents policies from being carried through and alienates the Party organizations from the masses which the Party leads. It is an extremely bad tendency.
Liberalism stems from petty-bourgeois selfishness, it places personal interests first and the interests of the revolution second, and this gives rise to ideological, political and organizational liberalism.
People who are liberals look upon the principles of Marxism as abstract dogma. They approve of Marxism, but are not prepared to practice it or to practice it in full; they are not prepared to replace their liberalism by Marxism. These people have their Marxism, but they have their liberalism as well--they talk Marxism but practice liberalism; they apply Marxism to others but liberalism to themselves. They keep both kinds of goods in stock and find a use for each. This is how the minds of certain people work.
Liberalism is a manifestation of opportunism and conflicts fundamentally with Marxism. It is negative and objectively has the effect of helping the enemy; that is why the enemy welcomes its preservation in our midst. Such being its nature, there should be no place for it in the ranks of the revolution.
We must use Marxism, which is positive in spirit, to overcome liberalism, which is negative. A Communist should have largeness of mind and he should be staunch and active, looking upon the interests of the revolution as his very life and subordinating his personal interests to those of the revolution; always and everywhere he should adhere to principle and wage a tireless struggle against all incorrect ideas and actions, so as to consolidate the collective life of the Party and strengthen the ties between the Party and the masses; he should be more concerned about the Party and the masses than about any private person, and more concerned about others than about himself. Only thus can he be considered a Communist.
All loyal, honest, active and upright Communists must unite to oppose the liberal tendencies shown by certain people among us, and set them on the right path. This is one of the tasks on our ideological front.
Mao Zedong, Combat Liberalism, 1937
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