한국 사회주의운동의 전환, 레닌을 어떻게 보았는가 ― 변혁적 활동가들의 러시아혁명 인식의 과거와 현재 ―

Abstract

This article deals with the perception and acceptance of Russian Revolution in Korea’s Socialist Movement during 1980’s~2000. After the defeat of Kwangju uprising, beginning in 1985, Marxism started to introduce in earnest. Also Lenin’s Work is starting to circulate. Naturally extra attention was focused on the Marx-Leninist Revolution ideology and the Russian Revolution as it’s historical practice. The Russian Revolution was a compass so as to expose the absurdity and contradictions of the Korean Society, and to change this society a better place. The task of revolutionary movement was settled in the liberal-democratic framework no longer. The world could be change, and must to change. For this realization, the revolutionary movement was applied concretely the Marx-Leninist Ideology in korean society. ‘Professional Revolutionaries’ was born and tried to construct ‘Vanguard party.’ Like this, ‘Leninist craze’ in the 1980’s grew from the practical task in Korea’s socialist movement. But the Russian Revolution is accepted as the ‘model’ of the revolutionary change, not as the vividly historical experience. After the collapse of the ‘real socialism’, the activist, who the socialism accepted as a ‘model’, get into uncontrollable confusion. In the Korea’s socialist movement the most of revolutionary activist laughed ‘revolution’s motherland’ and forgot utterly. Consequently they go into liquidation the socialist movement. But as the contradiction of the neoliberalism is raging, a few activist try to succeed to the legacy of Russian Revolution, that is the experience and its significance of Russian Revolution. After the collapse of the ‘real socialism’, it is at this point that Russian Revolution is considered as ‘vividly experience.’ In that respect after 1980’s Russian Revolution was the thought of the times.