There are many people across the world, who endeavoured for a long time to find out the way to shape the destiny of human before feeling happy as if they found an oasis in the desert, and made a new start of their life after they came across the Juche idea. Among them is an Indian scholar, named T. B. Mukherjee.
From Dialectical Materialism to the People-centred Philosophical Ideology
Teaching at a university for over 40 years from the early 1940s, Mukherjee received doctor’s degree in philosophy, politics and law. During that period, he revealed before the students the reactionary nature of the pseudo-philosophy, which is as harmful to the mankind as narcotics. He highly praised dialectical materialism that provided the proletariats with the ideal of class liberation.
In the early 1970s, he came across a new ideology that was being propagated worldwide.
He wrote in his memoirs as following:
The previous materialistic view explained the socio-historical development with materials at the centre, whereas the Juche philosophy defined all the principles and factors with man, an actual being, at the centre. That it newly defined the position and role of man, free from the general concept of materials, can be likened to the discovery of the new celestial sphere in the 17th century. I agreed with the philosophical principle of the Juche idea that man is the master of everything and decides everything, and made a determination to follow it.
In May 1980 he visited the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea for the first time together with several scholars of India, and had an opportunity to meet President Kim Il Sung. To the DPRK President, he said that he was wondering how the truth of the Juche idea that gives the humankind a great power with which to develop nature and society had been discovered.
Kim Il Sung explained in detail how the Korean people built their country by their own efforts, citing such examples as producing tractors and electric locomotives by themselves in the difficult situation of the days when everything had been destroyed during the Korean war (1950-1953).
Attracted by him, Mukherjee set the Juche philosophy as his major and devoted his all efforts to studying it. On many occasions including in the autumn of 1981, he visited the DPRK and met Kim Il Sung. Resolved to propagate the Juche idea over the world, he worked as the vice director general of the International Institute of the Juche Idea and director general of the Asian Regional Institute of the Juche Idea even in his 70s.
