慶幸生活在一個自由的社會: 2011年金正日逝世后,《原则》进行了更新,添加了金正日的名字,命名为《確立黨的唯一思想體系十大原則》。 1 我们必须全力以赴,以金日成主义和金正日主义统一整个社会。 2 我们要把伟大的金日成和金正日同志尊为我们党和人民永远的领袖,尊为主体的太阳。 3 我们要绝对和坚决捍卫伟大的金日成、金正日同志的权威和党的权威。 4 我们必须用伟大的金日成和金正日同志的革命思想和实现这些思想的党的路线和政策彻底武装起来。 5 贯彻落实伟大的金日成、金正日同志的指示和党的路线政策,必须严格遵守无条件服从的原则。 6 要以领导人为中心,千方百计加强全党的思想意志、意志力和革命团结。 7 我们要向伟大的金日成、金正日同志学习,以高尚的精神风貌、革命的工作方法、以人为本的工作作风。 8 我们要珍惜党和领导人赋予我们的政治生命,以提高政治觉悟和工作业绩,忠实回报党的信任和体贴。 9 我们必须建立强有力的组织规则,使全党、全民族、全军在党的唯一领导下一体行动。 10 我们要把伟大的金日成同志开创、金日成同志和金正日同志领导的主体革命和先军革命的伟大成就代代相传,继承和完成到底。 Authoritarian systems often depict: - Scam elections, often where one side/candidate rules for >15 years and typically receives >60% of votes or seats. - One party system, often claiming party, government and the whole society are the same thing. '-> “If you disagree or dislike the party, then you hate society including your own family and are a betrayer!” - Personality cult, especially if the authoritarian form is that of a dictatorship. Including pictures of “the Leader”. - Reducing individuals (“Society matters more than the individual!”), thereby reducing human/individual value/rights. - In the worst case: ignore your own rationale, ethics and eyes. Only listen to the Party/”Leader”! - Sowing fear, resulting –often unconsciously– in, primarily: believe for what the Party/Leader says – or secondarily: become “apolitical”, not interested in “politics”, often accompanied by an uncomfortable feeling when “anything political” is mentioned. '-> The more people are loudly in the primary group, the more fear in society, creating a self-reenforcing circle. Loud people in the primary group might subconsciously fear the Party the most. - Brain drain: smart people leave. - Discouraging people from leaving, such as by claiming the rest of the world was not safe. - A picture of an enemy: The strongest democracy, “The West”, or (almost) the whole world. - Sowing hate, usually by dividing people into groups and then accusing certain groups, instead of actually naming real perpetrators – such as generally believers of a certain religion X or generally most residents of place Y. Including, for crimes former residents of Y may have committed, even when the real perpetrators are not the current residents of place Y. - Empowering nationalism, which divides the one human race into groups: “_We_ [+citizenship status, like ‘_We_ Icelanders’] are good and _they_ (foreigners) are bad! We against them!” Even though both are humans with just arbitrarily different legal papers. - Empowering the military or militarism - Advocating for expansion of territory, such as by claiming more. - Good relations with other authoritarians and rather bad relations with liberal-democratic systems. - In friction with supranational institutions, such as the UN, international courts or the EU – as their duties includes protection of the (universal) rights of humans, justice, democracy and the value of human life. - Attempts to control information and “the truth”. Lies. - Uses doublespeak, such as calling obvious, universal human rights violations “in accordance with the law”. Please remember: There is only one human race. Ethically, but also according to medicinal and biological research. We are simply born by chance at different places. These places unfortunately divide the world, by constructing with law (that is: concepts made up by lawmakers) borders and papers (“passports”, with “citizenship”), to create the illusion of the one human race being divided. We are not. Someone who was born, grew up or lives in an authoritarian system is not necessarily a “fascist” or authoritarian themselves. If that place was controlled by an authoritarian militant, please name that very politician or at least party, as the culprit should always be named and to avoid accusing the innocent.