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Posted on 07/24/2026 10:34:26 AM PDT by Renkluaf
The following is an except from the Epilog of the book:
Le Duan [Party First Secretary] resolved, with Soviet help, to turn all of Vietnam into what he call an “impregnable outpost of the socialist system.” Hanoi forcibly collectivized agriculture in the South, virtually abolished capitalism, nationalized industries, and appointed planners to run it all along strict communist lines.
The result was economic disaster. Inflation rose as high at 700 percent a year. People starved. “Nothing was more terrible then those ten years after the war,” Bau Ninh [Vietnamese novelist] remembered. “Our living standard collapsed completely. It was terrible. During the war people could accept hardship. But after the war, it was caused by the huge mistakes of the Stalinist economic policies, the economic problems of communism.”
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Of course with the collectivization of agriculture, transportation, and distribution, the so called problem of population will be solved. About 50% of the people will die of starvation. 60% if the people in charge have majored in women’s studies or sociology.
No link. Looks like it’s about this?
The Vietnam War
Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33512518-the-vietnam-war
The story's already been written. The magic of Socialism is making the chumps think it's new.
They understand it perfectly and are looking forward to the day they can go full Khmer Rouge on the people they hate.
I know right? How many times have we been told that the theories of Marx and Engels just have never been properly implemented?
But now, Mamdani and his guys are going to lecture us about the warmth of collectivism, and he’s going to implement it properly???
Stay tuned
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Yes, couldn’t find one. Thx.
I was one of the first yanks legally back in Vietnam in ‘94, it was amazing. It was a place frozen in time of ‘75 but everything was 20 years older. It had just begun to realize the folly of the communist plan and the change had begun.
The warmth of collectivism burned up the economy.
How about that? It seems a number of formerly strict communist countries have made free market reforms, and their countries are better off for it.
Lefties never ever learn from history and millions and millions have to die.
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