The most powerful weapon for a party that is waging a revolution shouldering the people’s destiny–in fact its one and only weapon–is ideology.

For a party that wages revolution, ideology is the most powerful weapon. Without ideology, a party can neither perform its mission and duty of leading the revolution nor strengthen itself. Might of a revolutionary party is determined by greatness of its guiding ideology. The greater an ideology is, the more easily it is understood and accepted by the masses of the people. The bigger traction and vitality its guiding ideology has, the more powerful a party becomes. The Workers’ Party of Korea is a powerful revolutionary party with great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism as its guiding ideology.

Ideology is the one and only weapon for a revolutionary party and ideological work is a mode of activities peculiar to the party. A party, which has no correct political idea and does not give priority to ideological work, fails to awaken the broad people to their ideological consciousness and organize them and to actively inspire them to the revolution and construction. Party is not a judicial or power organ. A revolutionary party does not rule people with government post or plutocracy as bourgeois political parties do. Inherent characteristic of a revolutionary party lies in the fact that it educates and rouses people with ideology as the one and only weapon.