Nguyen Ngoc Hoi: Vietnam Cannot Disconnect Ho Chi Minh Thought from Marxism-Leninism

As an extremely cunning artifice of hostile forces, disconnecting Ho Chi Minh Thought from Marxism-Leninism is aimed at denying our Party’s ideological foundation. Thus, we must always raise our revolutionary vigilance against and actively fight to unmask that trick.

Removing the ideological foundation of the Communist Party of Viet Nam (CPV) represents a consistent goal of hostile forces to pervert our Party and step by step abolish the CPV’s existence and leadership over Viet Nam’s State and society.

To that end, one of the foxiest artifices employed by hostile forces is disconnecting Ho Chi Minh Thought from Marxism-Leninism via their sophistries. On the one hand, they adduce the collapse of the socialist system around the world at the end of the previous century to announce that “Marxism-Leninism is out of date; therefore, there is no need to mention Marxism-Leninism when it comes to the CPV’s ideological foundation”. On the other hand, they define Ho Chi Minh Thought as the opposite of Marxism-Leninism when saying that “Ho Chi Minh is a nationalist; Ho Chi Minh Thought has, therefore, no relevance to Marxism-Leninism”. More artfully, they do not publicly reject Marxism-Leninism, but they argue that “the spirit of Marxism-Leninism has been included in Ho Chi Minh Thought; hence, when it comes to the CPV’s ideological foundation, Ho Chi Minh Thought is more than enough”.

It is vital to point out immediately that those above-mentioned viewpoints are very dangerous as they easily make a lot of people without good knowledge of political theory unable to understand that behind the trick of “praising Ho Chi Minh Thought” is hostile forces’ plots of rejecting Marxism-Leninism, Ho Chi Minh Thought, and our Party’s ideological foundation. Researching into the process of forming and developing Ho Chi Minh Thought will help us prove those aforementioned arguments absolutely wrong.

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