Vietnamese Communism and the Peasants: Analogy and Originality in Vietnamese Experience

Type:

Book Chapter

Author:

Pierre Brocheux

Published:

2019

Publisher:

Routledge

The Vietnamese revolution must learn and has learned a great deal from the experience of the Chinese revolution. The dialectic between national and social imperatives characterized the narrow road chosen by the Communists in Vietnam as well as in China. The strategy of the bourgeois democratic revolution propelled the Vietnamese revolution up to the 1950s. The Chinese found themselves in relatively more favorable circumstances than the Vietnamese because, masters of military and political power in their base areas, particularly in the Northwest, they could manipulate the two prongs of the united front tactic at will. The decision to implement a radical agrarian reform followed the sharpening of internal political divisions and was associated with a military undertaking of great magnitude that was to exact even greater sacrifices from the small peasantry.

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