From our "Ponderables" files
The following is quoted from an online colloquy with Daniel Teodoru which can be found at http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~diplo/Ho.htm
Teodoru quoting from correspondence he had with BUI TIN, a high level Hanoi official now living in France:
'"The Communist leaders always did their best to hide the ideologic factor behind the Vietnam War; they did everything they could to conceal the class nature of the war, the proletarian dictatorship dogma behind it, and the regime's totalitarianism."
'As to the goal, continues Tin in our correspondence,
'"The internationalist duty that the Communist Party of Vietnam arrogated to itself has always been to communize the whole Indochina peninsula and, AT A LATER STAGE, THE REST OF SOUTHEAST ASIA."
'More specifically,
'"After April 30, 1975 [i.e. the fall of Saigon], I have on more than one occasion heard from high ranking members of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Secretariat declare in front of what they considered the 'inner circle' that it was a pity that the Thai Communist Party was so weak, otherwise they would have provided the opportunity to 'liberate' Thailand, in other words to communize it also."
'So, the Domino Theory was real-- not as Ike's creation but as a Communist blueprint!'
This is from our newly-formed So You Wanna Be A Leftist/Anarchist/Nazi feature:
So you think Communism and Nazism are different? Hitler didn't think so.
Stalin and von Ribbentrop share
some Miller Time after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact/
1939
"[T]here is more that binds us to Bolshevism than separates us from it. There is, above all, genuine, revolutionary feeling, which is alive everywhere in Russia except where there are Jewish Marxists. I have always made allowance for this circumstance, and given orders that former Communists are to be admitted to the party at once. The petit bourgeois Social-Democrat and the trade-union boss will never make a National Socialist, but the Communists always will." (Adolph Hitler, quoted in Hermann Rauschning, Hitler Speaks)
(from Brian Caplan, Prof. of Economics, George Mason University)
'The mythology of Lenin, creator and sustainer of the Russian revolution is now dying. With it will go all the Leninist groups for as the Soviet archives are increasingly opened it will become increasingly difficult to defend Lenin's legacy. The Left in the west has dodged and falsified the Lenin debate for 60 years now. Now however there is a proliferation of articles and meetings by the various Trotskyist groups trying to convince workers that Lenin did not lead to Stalin. Unfortunately much of this debate is still based on the slander and falsifications of history that has been symptomatic of Bolshevism since 1918. The key questions of what comprises Stalinism and when did Stalinism first come into practice are dodged in favour of rhetoric and historical falsehood. '
From an Anarchist Website http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2419/index.html
More neat stuff from the People's Paradise:
From Nan Dhan News in Hanoi
On The Proper Function of Journalism in North Vietnam
"…To make the media a sharp tool of the Party and State in national industrialisation and modernisation, the media will have to continue renovating itself in both content and form, primarily in thought and style of journalism following Uncle Ho's example, a great journalist himself.
"In keeping with the glorious tradition of Vietnam's revolutionary press in the past 75 years, Vietnamese journalists are committed to deserving to be the Party’s vanguard force in ideological and cultural front."
Hey, we already teach these principles at the Columbia School of Journalism, don't we?