Fundamental Principle to Be Adhered to in Socialist Construction

Rodong Sinmun on Fundamental Principle to Be Adhered to in Socialist Construction
Pyongyang, November 8 (KCNA) -- It is a fundamental principle to be consistently adhered to in socialist construction to firmly protect and fully meet the desire for independence and interests of the popular masses. Rodong Sinmun Thursday says this in a signed article.
It goes on:
In order to build socialism in line with the above-said desire and interests, it is necessary, first of all, to strengthen the working-class party organizationally and ideologically and fully ensure the party leadership over the revolution and construction.
It is also necessary to steadily increase the function and role of the socialist power and protect and develop the socialist ownership.
It is one of the fundamental principles to be consistently maintained in socialist construction to resolutely struggle against imperialism.
Abandoning the above-said principle means surrender and betrayal.
The Eastern European countries, which were once engaged in building socialism, opted to make concessions over the socialist principle, wavering before the temporary difficulties and yielding to the pressure of the imperialists because they lacked faith in socialism and a firm revolutionary stand. They weakened the leadership role of the ruling parties and uniform leadership function of the socialist states, neglecting the work for strengthening the working-class parties. They, at the same time, compromised with the imperialists without principle, applying the relations of capitalist ownership and capitalist methods of managing economy. This brought such miserable consequences as degenerating socialism and ousting the working-class parties from power and pushing socialism to a collapse in the end.
The historical experience goes to clearly prove that if a country makes a single concession and backdown over the socialist principle, it is bound to make them a hundred times and this will lead to the final collapse of the working-class party and socialism.