The Failure of Communism in Vietnam
Communist Party and the Socialist Republic have failed Vietnam and the Vietnamese people in a dramatic way
(PRWEB) November 26, 2004 -- It should be clear to any realistic observer of
politics in Indochina that the Communist Party and the Socialist Republic have
failed Vietnam and the Vietnamese people in a dramatic way. When Ho Chi Minh
enticed the peasants to join his guerilla army he promised them a future in
which the people would rule, where they would be free, living in uniform
happiness in a communal paradise. What he delivered though was a nation ruled by
the Party elite, with no freedoms, no civil rights and no personal liberty.
Vietnam was robbed of its ancient heritage and forced to accept the culture of
communism. Instead of a socialist paradise they have obtained only poverty,
hunger and misery. These facts have become so clear and brutal that even many of
the Communist Party's most ardent supporters are admitting that they have
failed.
Only a short time after conquering the government in South
Vietnam the communist regime in Hanoi fought a war against the People's Republic
of China. They claimed to be defending Vietnam from Chinese invasion as so often
happened in history. However, in recent years the Hanoi regime has given up
Vietnamese territory in the north to China, freely handing over the sacred
ground for which so many Vietnamese have died over the centuries. It was this
outrage which caused the famous writer Nguyen Vu Binh to criticize the socialist
government. What should be pointed out is that Nguyen Vu Binh was a former
writer for the Communist Party Journal, but at last even he was forced to see
the truth that the regime was selling out to China.
There have been many other such examples. In 1990, the leading Communist
official Tran Bach Dang told the author Stanley Karnow, "Our belief in a
Communist utopia had nothing to do with reality. We tried to build a new society
on theories and dreams--on sand. Instead of stimulating production by giving
people incentives, we collectivized them. Imagine! We even collectivized
barbers. It was preposterous. We were also consumed by vanity. Because we
crushed the Americans, we thought we could achieve anything. We should have
heeded the old Chinese adage: 'You can conquer a country from horseback, but you
cannot govern it from horseback.'" Finally the Communists must look their
failure in the face and confess their mistakes.
In a similar confession
the unrepentant but realistic Dr. Duong Quynh Hoa, a high leader in the
VietMinh, told the same author, "I have been a Communist all my life, but now
I've seen the realities of Communism, and it is a failure--mismanagement,
corruption, privilege, repression. My ideals are gone." In a later meeting she
voiced the same outrage saying, "Communism has been catastrophic. Party
officials have never understood the need for rational development. They've been
hypnotized by Marxist slogans that have lost validity--if they ever were valid.
They are outrageous." Few people deny that if Dr. Hoa had not been such a famous
figure from the war against America she would have been arrested for making such
statements. Even the famous Colonel Bui Tin, deputy editor of the Communist
Party newspaper was forced by his conscience to confess the failure of Communism
and the Socialist Republican government in Hanoi.
Colonel Bui Tin in
particular pointed out the most alarming problems for Vietnam in his "citizen's
petition". He said, "There is an alarming deterioration of traditional ethical,
moral and spiritual values (and) confusion among the youth on whom the country's
future depends." Remember that this man once fought for the vision of Marxism
and Ho Chi Minh, and even he was forced to see the error of his youthful
judgment. The same government he fought to create he now attacked as,
"Bureaucracy, irresponsibility, egotism, corruption and fraud are becoming
entrenched under an insolent reign of privileges and prerogatives," It is those
exact same traditional values, ethical, moral and spiritual, which the Nguyen
Dynasty and the Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League are determined to
see restored and defended, so that the youth of Vietnam might have a better
understanding of their nation and its cultural
roots.
Looking at the world at large, and the
many crimes of the Vietnamese Communist Party, all free people must condemn a
government that allows such things to happen. There should be no place in the
modern world for such tyranny, oppression and disregard for human dignity. If
even the awakened members of the Communist Party can see their mistakes and
voice their protests, surely the other free Vietnamese of the world must take
the same step and join with the voice of the Great Nguyen Dynasty in calling for
the end of dictatorship and the establishment of a new democratic government,
based on Vietnamese traditions, that will assure the rights of its people and
hold government officials accountable to those who elected them.
"When we
are not devoted to serve the People, we cannot have the right to ask for the
favors from the nation."
The Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist
League
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