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Ideologies / Leninist-Marxist / Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh — ink portrait
§ The minds · 1890–1969 · Vietnam · Revolutionary & head of state

Ho Chi Minh

Independence and communism

National liberation fused with Marxism-Leninism.

Heterodox Leninist-Marxist →
Economic−92
SocialistMarket
Governance+72
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Social+20
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The founder of communist Vietnam, who merged anti-colonial nationalism with Marxism-Leninism through decades of war against France and the United States.

social

Blended communist modernism with appeals to Vietnamese tradition and nation.

economic

Land redistribution and a state-planned economy under party control.

governance

Founded a one-party state through prolonged revolutionary war.

Notable for
  • Founded the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
  • Led anti-colonial liberation
  • Declared Vietnamese independence, 1945
national-liberationanti-colonialismone-party-state
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