North vietnam army/vietcong

[CHEtheLIBERATOR]

Was just kinda interested I'm in full support of them

[Kassad]

Ho Chi Minh's forces organized incredibly efficiently to combat the combined power of two of the largest imperialist and militarized states in the modern world. Without the proper organization of Vietnam's national liberation and party structure, they would have never dreamed of combating the United States. The United States and the corporate hawks who sought to intervene in Vietnam suffered a crushing blow that devastated the United States' foreign policy. The stinging defeat is still felt in the sides of the ruling elite to this day, but of course, as long as capitalism exists, so will imperialist intervention.

Of course, with the revisionism in China and the Soviet Union, Vietnam's impoverished state has been nearly impossible to overcome. Without support from other revolutionary states, Vietnam has never managed to properly rebuild after the devastating atrocities commited by the United States. Luckily, Vietnam has experienced incredible economic growth in the last few years. Foreign trade is increasing tremendously and food is becoming more abundant. Vietnam has been forced to embrace a multitude of Chinese market-like reforms which have increased inequality at the expense of economic growth. Regardless, Vietnam is still continuing to combat illiteracy and promote healthcare across the nation, but the more they embrace market reforms, the more they will feel the sting of capitalism.

Only time will tell if the Communist Party of Vietnam holds true to Marxist-Leninist principles. The development of the market through capitalist reforms is incredibly dangerous, but it can be properly regulated, just as Lenin did in the infant stages of the Bolshevik Revolution. We should all express solidarity with the workers struggle in Vietnam and hope that socialism is the goal for the future.

[BobKKKindle$]

The NLF and the NVA (the former was the official name of the Vietcong, and the military arm of the South Vietnamese Communist Party, whereas the latter was the army of the North Vietnamese state) led an inspiring and courageous struggle against the occupation of Vietnam and demonstrated that even the world's most powerful military giant can be beaten if combatants are committed and have knowledge of local conditions. The movement inside the imperialist bloc against the Vietnam War was also a major factor in raising the profile of the revolutionary left during the post-war period and resulted in the politicization of many young people who might otherwise have remained apolitical and accepting of life under capitalism. Despite these positive aspects, however, Marxists should follow Lenin's advice and avoid giving a "communist colouring" to what was, in reality, a Stalinist organization, and state apparatus - and this is reflected in their treatment of the Vietnamese Trotskyist movement in the 1940s, which, despite the imprisonment of its leaders during the war, had an active presence inside the labour movement, as well as the 'People's Committees' that had been established by the International Communist League (the main Vietnamese Trotskyist party, established in the 1930s) after the war in order to arm the working class in preparation for the struggle against the returning French colonists, and yet almost all Trotskyists were murdered in 1945, with the remainder being forced to flee overseas. As one would expect, the Stalinist-dominated national liberation movement betrayed the working class once it had driven out the United States by introducing market reforms (collectively known as Doi Moi) in 1986, and Vietnam is now an underdeveloped capitalist economy that, by virtue of its lack of independent trade unions, and political stability, provides a welcome investment environment for multinational corporations, with a small party elite being enriched at the expense of the proletariat and peasantry.

[Shin Honyong]

I support the NLF, not so happy with the NVA with their regional chauvinism they showed after the war.

[Janine Melnitz]

I for one am utterly shocked that those who voted "completely terrible" haven't the guts to elaborate their views in this thread