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Vietnam Emerges from Crisis Conference
| Tweet | Mar 02, 2012, 05:22 | via hannaspice |
Fisheggtree - This week the Communist Party of Vietnam held its 4th National Conference on Party Building. It was convened in the midst of what many party cadres designated as a political crisis following a bungled land grab in Haiphong.
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The incident caught international attention when a farmer and his family fought (unsuccessfully) a squadron of 100 policemen and soldiers using home-made land mines and shotguns. The incident underscored not only the growing willingness and fortitude of citizens to fight for liberties, but shook the communist party to its core when they observed that the act of rebellion was generally supported by the Vietnamese public.
Speakers and documents circulated at the conference fixated upon ‘evil forces’ and ‘secret, unseen threats’ to the Communist Party and the teachings of Ho Chi Minh, demonstrating a general paranoia about the current political climate in the country. Some leaders expressed concerns over rumours that party members were beginning to question the relevance of Marxism in Vietnam’s modern society and economy.
Party leadership stressed over and over, obsessively about the need for ‘self criticism’ at the conference. The theoretical method for recognizing ones own shortcomings and making self-corrections has historically produced few tangible results. In China’s cultural revolution, self-criticism meant brutal public humiliation of Party cadres (who had lost favour with higher-ups) or a short trip to the Killing Fields in Pol Pot’s ultra-Marxist regime. In Vietnam however, it usually means blaming things on one’s staff, or admitting to ‘getting lost in one’s passion for the revolution but neglecting tangible actions’… then heading out for beer and karaoke with the other cadres.
There were a number of telling statements in the Party’s official press release:
“Thirdly, the Party is facing new requirements and tasks, thus it must uphold fine traditions to overcome and eradicate weaknesses and negative phenomena which are causing concerns to cadres, Party members and the people.”
“Fourthly, hostile forces continue resisting the national renovation in order to wipe out the socialist regime, the Communist Party leadership, Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh Thought. In that context, the CPV always attaches importance to Party building work and considers the work as a key and vital task for the CPV and the socialist regime.”
“The resolution focuses on three urgent issues. Firstly, preventing and stamping out degradations of political ideology, ethics and lifestyles of a number of Party members and cadres, especially leading and managerial officials at all levels.”
Vietnam’s Communist Party emerged shaken but intact from the seminar. How it will continue to fare in the coming months during the nation’s current economic decline remains to be proven.
"Look on the bright side, nephew; blue ears look good with green… and all that being home sick with the swine flu--think of all those uncollected bribes as 'economic stimulus' for Vietnam's failing economy! As for the 'hand, foot and mouth disease', well... stop eating babies."
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