Kim Jong-Il: Ideological education is not aimed merely at giving people political knowledge, but at enabling them to make our Party’s revolutionary ideas and the Party’s policies their own flesh and bone and apply them thoroughly in practice. Intellectuals should be educated in the Party’s policies, revolutionary traditions, working-class and communist ideas so that they are firmly armed with our Party’s revolutionary ideas and think and act as required by the Party’s policies at all times and in all places. An important aspect of the revolutionary transformation of intellectuals and their assimilation to the working class is rooting up survivals of outmoded ideas such as selfishness and liberalism and encouraging them to acquire the revolutionary spirit and sense of organization and discipline of the working class and a strong revolutionary will. Intellectuals, unlike the working class engaged in production, in many cases act individually, and consequently they lack the sense of organization, discipline and collectivism, and the will power to overcome difficulties. Strengthening revolutionary organizational life is the best way to arm intellectuals with the revolutionary spirit and sense of organization and discipline of the working class and to temper them politically. Intellectuals should not regard organizational life as a burden or resent the guidance and control of the organization. Dislike of the guidance and control of the organization, regarding it as a restraint of the individual’s liberty, is a bourgeois liberalistic viewpoint. Those who dislike and neglect organizational life will become degenerate ideologically and, in the long run, stray from the path of the revolution. To further their revolutionary education and tempering, intellectuals must intensify their involvement in criticism and self-criticism. Criticism and self-criticism are the most powerful weapons for eliminating outmoded ideological survivals lingering in the minds of the people and educating the people in a revolutionary way. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2864