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Enhanced Role of Ideological and Cultural Means Called for

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, March 7 (KCNA) -- To let all the ideological and cultural means including the media and literature and arts in a socialist society get rid of the party guidance is as foolish an act as laying down one's powerful ideological weapon before class enemies. This will end up losing the gains of the revolution to the enemies.
    Rodong Sinmun today observes this in a signed article.
    It goes on:
    The ideological and cultural means in socialist society can be used as a counter-revolutionary tool if they get rid of the guidance of the working class party. This is evidenced by what happened in those countries where socialism collapsed and capitalism revived.
    The anti-socialist elements in the countries once engaged in socialist construction worked hard to get the ideological and cultural means freed from the party guidance.
    They called for the "independence" of the ideological and cultural means, asserting that these means should reshape the work system, methods and contents as required by the policy for "reform" and "restructuring."
    They prodded the ideological and cultural means into beginning to slander and attack socialism, gradually discarding its mission as an ideological weapon for building socialism. This made it impossible for the working class party to establish its system of leadership over them.
    The above-said means which had been reduced to counter-revolutionary tools, freed from working class party's guidance, played a big role in bringing down socialism and reviving capitalism.
    Socialist idea represents the might and source of socialism. If a working class party is to successfully build socialism it should steadily increase the role of the ideological and cultural means, retaining a firm grip on them. This alone would help the ideological and cultural means successfully fulfill their mission and duty on the socialist ideological front and reinforce the ideological position of socialism, concludes the article.