Global InformationOn Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work information
 Cover page of 1973 English edition | |
| Author | Kim Il Sung |
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| Country | North Korea |
| Subject | Juche |
| Publisher | Foreign Languages Publishing House |
Published in English | 1973 |
| Pages | 33 |
| OCLC | 51370245 |
| On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work | |
| Chosŏn'gŭl | 사상사업에서 교조주의와 형식주의를 퇴치하고 주체를 확립할 데 대하여 |
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| Hancha | 思想事業에서 敎條主義와 形式主義를 退治하고 主體를 確立할 데 對하여 |
| Revised Romanization | Sasang saeob eseo gyojojuui wa hyeongsikjuui reul toechi hago juche reul hwangni palde daehayeo |
| McCune–Reischauer | Sasang saŏp eseŏ kyojojuŭi wa hyŏngsikchuŭi rŭl toech'i hago chuch'e rŭl hwangnip halde taehayŏ |
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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. It is considered one of Kim's most important works and a "watershed moment" in North Korean history. Views differ if the speech used the term juche to launch an ideology or more conservatively to assert that the Korean people were the subject of the revolution. The former believes that Juche, as a distinct ideology, was developed by Hwang Jang-yop on his re-discovery of the speech. The speech was published for the first time in 1960 and in many subsequent, heavily edited revisions since.
Details on when Kim Il Sung delivered the speech and where remain unclear or have been backdated. The speech was delivered against a backdrop of factional strife within the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in reaction to the Korean War, de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union, the Soviet–Yugoslav thaw, and economic reconstruction. Kim criticizes Soviet Korean propaganda workers of "dogmatism" and "formalism" by citing Soviet practices they had naively adopted to Korean conditions. Most of the speech is not about Juche, but about ways to win South Koreans' hearts and minds through propaganda.
- ^ Myers 2015, p. 47n11.