Just wanna bounce off this and say that I recommend wholeheartedly every comrade read Kim Il-sung. I know from the outside looking in it can feel as if Juche is a distinctly Korean thing, but I believe there really is a beautiful philosophy underpinning it that can be extrapolated outward, if not necessarily universally. There is plenty of wisdom in it that can alter one’s personal mindset as well - no liberal or “apolitical” self-help book will ever affect me quite the way reading into Juche has.
Juche is less Marxism-Leninism applied to Korea than what is often referred to as “Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism”, which is functionally the “Stalinism” re: Korea, meaning simply Marxism-Leninism with Korean characteristics. Juche is its own, imo wonderful thing that underpins the revolutionary Korean social psyche that all revolutionaries could learn from.
Just wanna bounce off this and say that I recommend wholeheartedly every comrade read Kim Il-sung. I know from the outside looking in it can feel as if Juche is a distinctly Korean thing, but I believe there really is a beautiful philosophy underpinning it that can be extrapolated outward, if not necessarily universally. There is plenty of wisdom in it that can alter one’s personal mindset as well - no liberal or “apolitical” self-help book will ever affect me quite the way reading into Juche has.
Juche is less Marxism-Leninism applied to Korea than what is often referred to as “Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism”, which is functionally the “Stalinism” re: Korea, meaning simply Marxism-Leninism with Korean characteristics. Juche is its own, imo wonderful thing that underpins the revolutionary Korean social psyche that all revolutionaries could learn from.