• Maeve@kbin.earth
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      4 months ago

      I don’t really know what life looks like in Vietnam, but I’d like very much to know the workings, of government to the regular people.

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      4 months ago

      From what I understand Vietnam is a fascinating combination of (borderline Stalinist at times) Communism combined with a ‘socialist-minded’ market economy. I could be wrong, I was reading about it a few years ago.

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      4 months ago

      Vietnam is explicitly communist in that communism is a goal it seeks to achieve for its society. Unfortunately communism cannot exist in an isolated form, it must be global or it will be crushed. This is why there must be a transitionary state that withers away as its processes becone unnecesary or lose their political nature by simply becoming tasks required to run a society