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Rodong Sinmun on Attraction of Socialist Idea

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

   Pyongyang, March 24 (KCNA) -- Imperialists are now vociferating about what they called "prosperity of capitalism," claiming that the bourgeois idea is better than the socialist idea. This is, however, nothing but a foolish ploy to cover up the reactionary nature of the bourgeois idea and stamp out the truth and attraction of the socialist idea.
    Rodong Sinmun Monday says this in a signed article.
    It goes on:
    The socialist idea draws sharp contrast to the bourgeois idea. The course of the development of history proves that the latter can never hold in check the attraction of the former.
    The period from the end of the Second World War to this day represents a history in which the socialist idea has triumphed.
    The collapse of socialism in a number of countries engaged in socialist construction could not but be a great loss in carrying out the overall cause of socialism. However, this is nothing but a temporary abnormal phenomenon as it went off the normal orbit of the development of human history.
    This was clearly proved by the Pyongyang Declaration "Let Us Defend and Advance the Cause of Socialism" which was adopted and published by 70 world progressive political parties desirous of socialism on April 20, 1992.
    The number of those political parties which signed the declaration has reached at least 270 for the past 16 years since then.
    The present reality also testifies to the fact that the bourgeois idea can never hold in check the attraction of the socialist idea.
    The peoples in those countries where socialism failed and capitalism revived are still nostalgic about socialism and wish to live under it again.
    The struggle to defend the socialist idea and embody it is gaining in scope and strength among the peoples of developing countries, in particular.
    No rhetoric can ever cover up the reactionary nature of the bourgeois idea.
    No force on earth can stop the socialist idea from displaying ever-increasing attraction, concludes the article.