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If a man who professes to be a communist punishes an innocent person by labelling him a reactionary, he's no longer a communist, but the worst of criminals.

— Kim Il-sung

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The basis of the Juche Idea is that man is the master of all things and the decisive factor in everything.

On Juche in Our Revolution vol. 2 (1977)

The revolution itself originates from a dream of the future or from the craving for a new life.

As fish cannot live without water, so guerrillas cannot live without the people.

Socialism is a human ideal, an inevitable course of historical development, and therefore it is perfectly clear that socialism will rise again in the end.

War is not only a contest of strength, but also a test of morality and ethics.

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Bertrand Russell Unarmed Victory (1963)

Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat.

Friedrich Engels Principles of Communism (1847)

Communism has sometimes succeeded as a scavenger, but never as a leader. It has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

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