The Juche idea newly elucidates the essence of society by placing man on the center.
Society is a collective of people.
Leader Kim Jong Il said.
“Society, in a nutshell, is a collective of people. The community in which people live, linked together by social wealth and social relations—this precisely is a society.”
From the first period of human society, people have formed groups and lived in combination wit
Society, where people live, linked together by social wealth and social relations, is society.
People live not individually but by forming groups. They live by creating and using social wealth--material wealth and spiritual and cultural wealth--which can meet the demand of material life and ideological and spiritual life.
Material wealth is included by the means of living and production, and spiritual and cultural wealth is included by idea, scientific and technical knowledge, literature and artistic work, etc.
People live, linked together by social wealth and social relations.
Social relations are social life. In other words, they are the relations which people establish in political, economic and cultural life.
Man is the master of society.
It means that he is the master of social wealth and social relations. Man creates social wealth and establishes social relations. Man is the master of social wealth and social relations, because they are created and established by man.
As man is the master of society, development level of society is determined by his development level.
Social wealth increases with the enhancement of man’s independence ideological consciousness and creative ability, and in conformity with it, social relations develop.
