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Description
President Ho Chi Minh, the leader, teacher and uncle of the Vietnamese people, was an epochal figure of world stature. His leadership shined everywhere he worked: from his days in France, away from his beloved Homeland, where he first learned of Lenin’s thesis of self-determination up to and including secession for all nations, and when he subsequently became a great personality of the anti-colonial movement within the Communist International, to his role in founding the Indochinese Communist Party (today the Communist Party of Vietnam), to his heroic leadership in the 1945 August Revolution to wipe away the stains of Japanese imperialism after the triumph of the Soviet Great Patriotic War, to the protracted war against French colonialism, and, most importantly, to his guidance in the war against U.S. aggression, one of the most just and heroic struggles waged in the modern era.
One will find in President Ho Chi Minh’s works an excellent combination of Marxist-Leninist rigour and principles with the concrete conditions of Vietnam. Moreover, one will see his masterful ability to make those principles easy to learn, even for those who have never picked up a book on the dialectical materialist world outlook. For him, such principles and simplicity meant addressing the U.S. occupation troops directly and explaining how their imperialists were using them as dispensable cannon-fodder to wage an aggressive war to enslave Vietnam. Such simplicity meant getting to the crux of the matter in only a few lines. The reader will see that many of his works are relatively short in form, but never short of content. NEPH is publishing the following book to increase knowledge and enthusiasm in the author’s life and work, and to encourage the study of Vietnam.