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Thanks so much for this great article; hits all the villians, solidarizes with all the victims and continuing fighters. My only issue with it: He mentions in passing a battle a few years after liberation in which "socialist factions" lost out to pro-capitalist ones. It would be great to hear more about that battle and the composition and program of the "socialist" side - but it is also essential to put that battle in the context of the VCP's Stalinism from birth. On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 9:06 PM, Marv Gandall via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Next week marks the 40th anniversary of the liberation of South Vietnam by > the the revolutionary forces of the National Liberation Front backed by the > People’s Army of (North) Vietnam. The Guardian’s Nick Davies describes how > the war against the US and its puppet government in Saigon was won and how > the promise of an independent egalitarian, future was lost in the wake of > the destruction caused by the war, the US trade embargo, and the pressures > of an all-encompassing global capitalist economy on a poor and isolated > country. As in China and the former Soviet Union, state enterprises have > been sold off, the private sector and foreign investment have expanded > dramatically, the once impressive health, education and welfare systems > have been dismantled, and soaring inequality and corruption have > accompanied higher growth and lower poverty rates. > > > http://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/apr/22/vietnam-40-years-on-how-communist-victory-gave-way-to-capitalist-corruption > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
