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13 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Western leftists think of Vietnamese communists like me as brainwashed to never criticize the state. Self-crit is a vital part of our education and political culture. This article openly discusses the shortcomings of our social welfare programs:

tapchicongsan.org.vn/web/english/cu… ImageImageImageImage
We definitely know our systems are highly imperfect and undeveloped. But we speak openly about our ambitions to increasingly REDISTRIBUTE RESOURCES and force the private sector to provide more to workers and to communities with an eye towards building a socialist system.
I often get accused of "never criticizing Vietnam," which I find laughable. Yesterday in my livestream I must have criticized Vietnam for a full 30 minutes or more on things like failing to protect gig workers who work for foreign corporations like Grab.
Vietnamese people have these discussions openly online all the time. We are incredibly critical of our own government. During COVID lockdowns citizens are EXTREMELY DEMANDING and expect a high level of service and attention from the state.

Ultimately, I am confident in the path Vietnam is taking because I have seen and experienced directly the massive improvements in social welfare we have had in my lifetime and the open discussion of ongoing problems. But I do still have plenty of criticisms and share them openly!

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Luna Oi! 🇻🇳 ¡ANTI-USAID ACTION! 🇨🇺 Profile picture
15 Oct
Thanks for recommending the book I studied for 6 years in high school/university, what about our century of socialism building which has brought us from being colonial slaves to defeating Japan, France, and USA to having one of the fastest growing life quality is Utopian, again?
Is it the fact that we are increasing the number of worker owned cooperatives by tens of thousands per year? The fact that we have been able to contain COVID with extremely limited resources? That 90% of us own our own homes and have full healthcare?
Can you explain to me how YOUR personal "scientific socialism building efforts" are an improvement over what we are doing in Vietnam? Can you enlighten me on what we in Vietnam need to do to meet your expectations?
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Luna Oi! 🇻🇳 ¡ANTI-USAID ACTION! 🇨🇺 Profile picture
15 Oct
THREAD: Coops were ~8.3% of the economy in 2020 (15,000 were added in 2020, and about 50% of them are in agriculture - most agriculture in Vietnam is cooperative).

Also, about 55% of Vietnamese workers are self-employed.

Vietnam gov is actively transitioning from SOEs to coops.
Western "Vietnam Understanders like to talk about how we are "state capitalist" even though the vast majority of workers don't work for the state and don't work for capitalists. We are a socialist-oriented market economy actively pushing for more workers owning their labor.
Learn more about socialist oriented market economy:

tapchicongsan.org.vn/web/english/ec…
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Luna Oi! 🇻🇳 ¡ANTI-USAID ACTION! 🇨🇺 Profile picture
15 Oct
When I explain the Vietnamese socialist perspective, I get told Vietnam is "not real socialism." When I say "I guess that depends on your definition of socialism," they demand I explain our socialism. When I link to theory texts explaining it in detail, they say it's a "cop out."
These people are not serious about building socialism, and their offensive stance conceals deep insecurity and defensiveness. I can only guess that being an ideological Western supremacist in a world where Western leftists have accomplished nothing leads to cognitive dissonance?
Anyway, like I say repeatedly: it is not my place to try to "sell you" on the Vietnamese path to socialism. You couldn't copy us even if you wanted to. You have to find your own path based on your material conditions. You can learn from Vietnam but you can't just copy us.
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Luna Oi! 🇻🇳 ¡ANTI-USAID ACTION! 🇨🇺 Profile picture
14 Oct
Once again I have to say this: please teach us how to do socialism right by building your own socialism. Vietnam would love to look at your revolution and learn from it.

You have 100% of my support, seriously!
If every single one of you, great socialist thinkers, can somehow start a revolution in your home countries and successfully build a post-revolution socialist society, Vietnam would be soooo fucking happy!!!

Seeing you destroying capitalism is our dream comes true.

Please do it
Vietnamese communists are totally aware of the mistakes that Vietnam made and the weaknesses we still have.

We are just trying our best, you know.

So if you reall want to help, please focus on dismantling your capitalist system in your countries.

Many thanks!
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Luna Oi! 🇻🇳 ¡ANTI-USAID ACTION! 🇨🇺 Profile picture
5 Oct
Marx and Lenin and Engels and Uncle Ho could only write about their own times and material conditions. We study them to learn HOW they thought, so we can apply their methods CREATIVELY to our circumstances in the here and now.
Trans liberation, decolonization, BLM, ableism.... these are not distractions because the old books don't discuss them. They are our material conditions. Learn dialectical materialism so you can properly consider and synthesize these concerns into the movement.
Class is the primary contradiction, there are many secondary contradictions. Class relates to base, many other forms of oppression relate to superstructure. Base determines superstructure but superstructure impacts base. Mutual impact! They reinforce each other dialectically!
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4 Oct
This is an example of the kind of reductive dogmatic chauvinism I've been talking about. TwinRabbits constructed an incredible document of indigenous ideas which influenced Western socialism. The entire piece is dismissed because it also challenged whiteness.
It would be absolutely fine to challenge that aspect of TwinRabbits' work, to engage with the question of whether TwinRabbits' evidence and reasoning were sound on that specific point. Instead the entire video, indeed, the entire perspective is dismissed out of hand.
And not even the point of contention itself (the question of white supremacy in the works of Marx and Engels) is ever addressed, explored, negated, synthesized, in any way. It's just dismissed, erased, cast aside, dogmatically.
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