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If your first instinct as a westerner is to criticize and lecture 3rd world communist movements, instead of learning from their successes, then you have internalized the patronizing arrogance of the colonial system you claim to oppose.

  • @ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com
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    132 months ago

    Why are you arguing that their military movement is what made them successful? Vietnam is successful from their governance not because many died.

    • Sleepless One
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      312 months ago

      Militarily driving out the French and Burger imperialists was a prerequisite for their governmental success. After all, if they hadn’t done that, they wouldn’t be governing themselves in the first place.

    • DessalinesOP
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      302 months ago

      I don’t understand. Nearly every successful anti-colonial revolution in the 20th century was communist or Marxist influenced, Vietnam was no different. Vietnam was successful because their decades long struggle against french and US imperialism, guided by Marxist theory.