[lbo-talk] Vietnamese Leninism (was re Eyewitness in Tikrit)

Todd Archer todda39 at hotmail.com
Tue Jan 6 11:01:10 PST 2004


Michael Pugliese. said:


>Just ran across this. Much material on officials in the Vietnamese CP
>pushing for democratization. And, of coarse, getting the usual Leninist
>discipline, jail, re-education.

I'm afraid I'm also badly out of touch with news from Viet Nam in this vein too. Last I heard they were opening the country up for foreign investment and pretty much giving up on anything smacking of socialism/communism. Even though the "Communist" Party might be in power (like it is in China), is it really accurate to call them "Leninists" or even communists anymore? Aren't they just one more authoritarian (possibly mildly socialist) regime now?

I'm sure Putin's going to hook up wires to Lenin's corpse soon. All that spinning must be generating millions of kilowatts.

Todd

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