Chris Burford
Sun, 13 Feb 2000 05:58:59 -0800
At 23:18 11/02/00 -0000, George wrote:
> In 1945 and 1946 the PCF
>hoping to win power through the ballot box was not anxious to avoid
>anything to do anything that might make them unpopular which is why they
>abandoned their support for national independence movements.
That sounds possible but I would like to see the context and exactly what
the PCF did or did not do.
Overall however these comments on the Vietnam War fail to understand the
brave and largely correct strategy of the Communist Party of Vietnam of
leading a war of national liberation. It also fails to understand the need
to make compromises and to take advantage of contradictions among the
enemy, eg at one time using US imperialism against French, and vice versa.
Chris Burford
London
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