Leninist-Trotskyists Defend The Vietnamese Revolution, But Dont Celebrate Ho Chi Minhs Birthday by Steven Argue As Ho Chi Minhs birthday is celebrated today in Vietnam, Leninist-Trotskyists stand to the left of both Ho Chi Minh and, of course, the imperialist mass murderers who slaughtered 3 million Vietnamese. In fact, the leadership of the Trotskyist movement in the anti-Vietnam War Movement in the United States played a major role in bringing U.S. troops to a state of rebellion in the early 70s. This, along side the heroic struggle of the Vietnamese people, forced the U.S. imperialist mass murderers out of Vietnam. Yet, Ho Chi Minh brutally smashed the left wing of the working class movement, including Trotskyists and the most militant workers and peasants who seized land and factories. He did this as part of trying to work out a deal with the imperialists. Trotskyists were murdered in their hundreds by Ho Chi Minh. I attach an article that gives that history. Legitimate Leninist-Trotskyists, then and now, stand to the left of the Vietnamese Communist Party: 1. While defending Vietnam from imperialist attack and attack from the Chinese deformed workers state, and defending what remains of the gains of the Vietnamese Revolution from internal capitalist counterrevolution: 2. We call for authentic workers democracy that allows for the organization of various voices in the workers and peasants movement that are not funded by the imperialist powers. Such workers democracy would also create the democratic institutions for the working class to run Vietnam without the country being run in a completely top down bureaucratic manner under the leadership of the Communist Party as it is today. 3. We oppose the dangerous capitalist inroads that have been allowed into the Vietnamese economy by the Vietnamese Communist Party, both for the terrible inequalities it has created and for the fifth column it creates for potential capitalist counterrevolution. The socialist planned economy established in the Russian Revolution turned the USSR, one of the poorest countries in the world, into an industrial powerhouse capable of defeating two major imperialist invasions and rebuilding afterwards to provide everyone with a job, education, and health care. The USSR did this with very few market mechanisms, no internal redevelopment of an internal capitalist class, and very little foreign capitalist investment. 4. We call for an internationalist revolutionary policy where Vietnam would stand in militant solidarity with the struggles of the international working class as part of a program to extend the revolution. This program stands as an alternative to current capitulations to the international bourgeoisie used to break Vietnam out of economic isolation. The program of Lenin and Trotsky was one that called for extending the victory of the Russian Revolution to the world to break the USSR out of isolation. 5. To carry out this program we support the organization of a Leninist-Trotskyist party in Vietnam and or any spontaneous workers or peasants uprisings that rise up and make these demands as long as they also defend the gains of the Vietnamese Revolution from imperialist attack and internal capitalist counter-revolution. We support and advocate those movements to the point of carrying out a political revolution that removes the brutal Stalinist bureaucracy from power and establishes workers democracy as part of the socialist planned economy. Here is more on the murder of Vietnamese Trotskyists by Ho Chi Minh: The forgotten massacre of the Vietnamese Trotskyists workersliberty.org/story/2005/09/12/forgotten-massacre-vietnamese-trotskyists
Posted on: Mon, 19 May 2014 17:42:23 +0000
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