Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh was formed by the anti-colonial nationalism of the traditional Vietnamese scholar-gentry class, and he subsequently encountered socialism in Paris and the Third International of Lenin, culminating in a period of study in the Soviet Union. As is known, he led to Vietnamese people to triumph in opposition to the colonial wars unleashed by France and the United States. A reformer within Marxism-Leninism, seeking to adapt it to the conditions of Vietnam and Indochina, Ho represents, along with Fidel Castro, one of the principal formulators of a more advanced understanding of Marxism-Leninism.
Collections of his speeches and writings are available in English:
Ho Chi Minh. 2007. Down with Colonialism. Introduction by Walden Bello. London: Verso.
Fall, Bernard B. 1967. Ho Chi Minh On Revolution: Selected Writings, 1920-66. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers.
Ho Chi Minh was formed by the anti-colonial nationalism of the traditional Vietnamese scholar-gentry class, and he subsequently encountered socialism in Paris and the Third International of Lenin, culminating in a period of study in the Soviet Union. As is known, he led to Vietnamese people to triumph in opposition to the colonial wars unleashed by France and the United States. A reformer within Marxism-Leninism, seeking to adapt it to the conditions of Vietnam and Indochina, Ho represents, along with Fidel Castro, one of the principal formulators of a more advanced understanding of Marxism-Leninism.
Collections of his speeches and writings are available in English:
Ho Chi Minh. 2007. Down with Colonialism. Introduction by Walden Bello. London: Verso.
Fall, Bernard B. 1967. Ho Chi Minh On Revolution: Selected Writings, 1920-66. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers.