Leftypol, I have a couple of questions for you.
>have you read ho chi minh?
>why havent you read ho chi minh?
>why arent you starting to read ho chi minh right now this very instant?
>when will you read ho chi minh?
>do you have any free time in the day or week that you could spend reading ho chi minh?
thank for your attention to this matter also go read ho chi minh
>>2921802I was told by one redbearded individual who shall not be named (now banned) that the TRVE theoretician of Total Vietnamese Victory was one Vo Nguyen Giap, and that if I wish to wage [redacted] against [redacted] in the year of our Marx 20XX, I should read him and Joe Slovo
>>2921802Why should I read from the guy who made an agreement with France 1946 so they can occupy north Vietnam?
>>2921812>Here, the history of the Russian Revolution offers an indispensable lesson. In 1918, the young Soviet Republic faced the advance of the German imperial army with a shattered force incapable of mounting effective resistance. Vladimir Lenin, against the objections of the so-called “left communists,” who demanded a “revolutionary war” to defend the entire territory, led the fledgling revolutionary state to sign the humiliating Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. This agreement ceded vast territories, including all of Ukraine and forty percent of Russia’s industrial base, to German imperialism. It was, by any measure, a massive defeat.
>Lenin’s critics labeled this a betrayal of the revolution and, in particular, of all the workers, peasants, and oppressed nationalities of the ceded territories who had fought and sacrificed everything in 1917, only to return to capitalism with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
>However, Lenin understood what his critics failed to grasp: the goal was not to die with dignity, but to preserve the political instrument of the revolution. As the late Commander Hugo Chávez reflected after the failed 1992 rebellion: “Today we must retreat in order to advance tomorrow.” The treaty provided the necessary breathing room to consolidate the Soviet state, build the Red Army, and ultimately defeat not only the German Empire, but also the combined forces of counterrevolution and foreign intervention. History proves that those who denounced Lenin as a traitor in 1918 were wrong. All the ceded territories returned to the USSR a few years later.
>Even so, this was not the end of retreats and concessions. Faced with famine conditions caused primarily by the civil war, Lenin contributed to humanitarian aid efforts by American capitalist charities, developed relations with the countries that had just invaded the Soviet Union, and re-established deep economic and commercial ties with German imperialism. Abandoning “war communism,” he guided the state toward the mass reintroduction of capitalist property relations and invited foreign companies. This laid the groundwork, for example, for the Soviet state to sign agreements with the Ford Motor Company (headed by the fascist sympathizer Henry Ford) to establish a factory. i was unaware that he wrote theory
care to post some?
>>2921959
that's not theory thoughbeit
>>2921812That agreement fell apart in the same year
>>2921959
>it's not the people it's the government
Omg ho chi minh was a lib???
ho chi minh was president of north vietnam and had very little to do with revolutionary politics of south vietnam until much later after the us invasion of south vietnam. the national liberation front of south vietnam, referred to as the "viet cong" (vietnamese communist) by us propaganda, was not a communist party covertly created by a north vietnamese government conspiracy as described by the common pro-western narrative, it was a completely indigenous independent nationalist coalition that came together long before the us invasion and was comprised of people of many different ideological persuasions, the vast majority being apolitical and uneducated agrarian peasants, supplemented by a rearguard minority of communists, social democrats, bourgeois liberals, buddhists, ethnic minorities, etc. and all of these groups had banded together and formed a solidarity movement based on their mutual opposition to western imperialism and desire for south vietnam to be an independent nation that was not ruled by any foreign power, neither the western imperalists nor the north vietnamese communists. their first and only real priority was just to overthrow the us-backed puppet dictatorship of ngo dinh diem (then later the us-backed military junta which replaced him) and establish south vietnam as an independent nation, all the details as to how the new regime would be structured and what kind of government it would be were TBD and would discussed at a later time if and when their efforts to gain independence were successful. of course, they were not successful and the us invaded and destroyed the entire country and killed 3 million people, most of whom were innocent helpless civilians, in what is probably the most brutal and egregious displays of western global supremacy since the nazi invasion of eastern europe. the united states began conducting bombing campaigns from within south vietnam on military installations just beyond the north vietnamese border (operation rolling thunder) so as to draw north vietnam into the conflict and compel them to lend their support to the south vietnamese NLF forces, engineering a retroactive pretext they needed to justify the us invasion by saying that the NLF movement was a north vietnamese communist conspiracy from the very beginning and that the us invasion was an effort to save south vietnam from being taken over by communist north vietnam. but in reality, the us never conducted or even planned any real invasion of north vietnam nor any major military operations other than the aforementioned provocative bombing campaign, and all of the 3 million people killed by the us were in south vietnam, cambodia, and laos and were mostly civilians. this is why the infamous "hanoi jane" photo sparked such tremendous outrage in the us and why jane fonda became one of the most despised figures in american politics, because the photos were particularly damning evidence against the "north vietnam is the real enemy" us narrative, as surely an enemy nation whom the us is currently at war with would never allow a famous american celebrity actress to come into their country and pose for a photo op with their military and then just leave, surely they would have taken her hostage or raped her or tortured her or done all kinds of terrible things to her if they were actually the enemy. it was never about north vietnam, was never about ho chi minh, was never about communism. it was all just the classic american red scare propaganda tactic of using the imaginary threat of communist conspiracy as a convenient pretext to crush any kind of anti-imperialist or anti-capitalist revolutionary effort, and in this case, to also make a example of them by destroying three countries and killing millions of people and demonstrating for the rest of the world what happens when you go up against the empire. if you need more proof, just go in your closet and look at some of your shoes or your clothes and you'll probably find a tag that says "MADE IN VIETNAM", i.e. made in modern-day communist vietnam whom we are now somehow totally okay with and our companies are using as a source of cheap labor to manufacture all of our name brand consumer products. how did that happen?