HO CHI MINH NATIONAL POLITICAL ACADEMY NGUYEN THI THANH DUNG HO CHI MINH’ S POLITICAL THINKING MAIN CHARACTERISTICS AND METHODOLOGY Major : Political Science Code : 62 31 20 01 A SUMARY OF PHD THESIS HA NOI - 2014 The thesis was compled at Ho Chi Minh National political Academy Academic Supervisor : Prof Dr Nguyen Van Huyen First Reviewer: Second Reviewer: Third Reviewer: The thesis is to presented at the Academy coucil of Thesis Accessment, organised at Ho Chi Minh National Political Academy At ., date month year 2014 The thesis can be found at National Library and The library of Ho Chi Minh National Political Academy INTRODUCTION The imperative of the topic Up to present, the researches on Ho Chi Minh in general and his political career in particular have mainly focused to clarify the creativity and the unique expressed in his political behaviour and ideology, which were accumulated, challenged and selected during a process to make it more and more improved They were the result of a process relating to not only logic and experience, right-or-wrong experiment but individual aspiration and belief as well To summary, what are the causes that lead to the creativity in political behaviour along with ideology of Ho Chi Minh? Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: “The ancestor of every action is logic” His words shows that every thought or action of the human beings originates from logic The right logic will rule over the right thought and action and create the difference in each person’s thought and action Above all, how excellent is Ho Chi Minh’s political logic to form the individual creativity in his own political ideology and behaviour? What are the features of Ho Chi Minh political logic that set up the political thoughts changing the world map in the 20th century? Doi Moi policy was officially implemented in Vietnam from 1986 with the first and foremost reform in logic In fact, it was the reform in political logic through economic, cultural and social perspectives It become the foundation or orientation for the all-sided Doi Moi process in Vietnam During this process, Vietnam Communist Party has incessantly applied the creativeness of Ho Chi Minh’s Marxism and used it as the argumentative base for the reform process After almost 30 years, besides huge achievements, the revolution reality increases new requirements that demand the political system to enhance and to bring into play the people solidarity power as well as the Vietnamese’s skill, spirit, intelligence and uprightness to build a prosperous, democratic and civilized country Above that, the Vietnamese need to exploit the heritages that Ho Chi Minh left so as to figure out the valuable guidelines for the current national revolution Therefore, learning about the main viewpoints in Ho Chi Minh political thought not only decodes the origin of creativeness in Ho Chi Minh political ideology and action but also creates the argumentative foundation for the current reform process This research supplements the profound knowledge of Ho Chi Minh’s political career and plays a role in the research of History of thought and Political Theory in Vietnamese Politics branch For the above reasons, the topic brings about the huge reality and argumentative values The necessary awareness of the research, the student chooses the topic “ Ho Chi Minh’s political thinking - main characteristics and methodology” for her PhD thesis 2 The purposes and tasks of the thesis 2.1 Purposes On the argumentative base of Ho Chi Minh’s political ideology logic, the thesis aims to analyze the factors forming Ho Chi Minh political logic; to clarify the characteristics expressed in the content and method of Ho Chi Minh politcal logic along with the meaning of these characteristics with the political logic reform in Vietnam currently 2.2 Tasks of the thesis To put the above targets into practice, the thesis will solve the following tasks : - Clarifying the argumentative matters relating to logic, political logic, Ho Chi Minh political logic and the factors forming Ho Chi Minh political logic - Clarifying the main characteristics of content and method of Ho Chi Minh political logic - Expressing the methodology of Ho Chi Minh political logic towards the political logic reform in the current political reform of Vietnam Targets and scope of the thesis 3.1 Researched targets - Main characteristics of Ho Chi Minh political logic - Methodology meaning towards the current reform career of Vietnam 3.2 Scope of the reseach From the perspective of Philosophy or Ho Chi Minh study, there have been a number of researches with different interpretation This topic just does a research from the political philosophy perspective to discover the special features in Ho Chi Minh political logic The thesis focuses on not only the general Ho Chi Minh ideology but also seeks for his political logic through the researches on his political thoughts and behaviour However, Ho Chi Minh’s life always associated with politics; the political activities mainly governed other thoughts in different fields Every thought of Ho Chi Minh of other areas in his life always aimed at his political purposes It may be because his politics is humane politics; he always regarded the freedom and happiness of people as his targets Above all, the direct scope of this topic may be narrow but it is implemented in large scale of Ho Chi Minh’s awareness, life, career and thought For instance: - Mentioning the time, Ho Chi Minh political logic was established and developed in his abundant political life It is a process that was gradually supplemented, developed and improved Therefore, Ho Chi Minh’s political life should be considered carefully to identify the main viewpoints in his political logic - For the space, Ho Chi Minh’s political life was very abundant It was formed from his real experiences when he stayed in many countries all over the world, hence, the thesis bases on his activity process in different countries through many articles, speeches, stories about his career to find out the main points in his political logic - Last but not least, mentioning the content, there is a wide scope in Ho Chi Minh political logic The thesis does not review the structure or the functions of logic as psychological prospect, but limits and recognizes the speciality of Ho Chi Minh political logic under political philosophy outlook Argumentative basis and methodology - The thesis bases on the argumentative basis of Marxism, Ho Chi Minh ideology and Vietnam Communist Party about Vietnam revolution - The methodology of the thesis is Dialectical materialism and Historical viewpoint - Additionally, the thesis also uses the detailed methods like history and logic, comparison, analysis, synthesis, reality arguments, specialist interviews, document analysis, etc, Scientific contributions of the thesis 5.1 Scientific contributions - The thesis has played a role in clarifying and deepening the matters relating to logic, political logic, Ho Chi Minh political logic and the other factors affecting the formation of Ho Chi Minh political logic - The thesis analyzes and generalizes the main prospects on content and Ho Chi Minh political logic methodology, hence, interprets that the origin of creativeness in Ho Chi Minh political thought and behaviour - The thesis infers the scientific comments that contribute to the development of the branch of Vietnam political logic through the research on Ho Chi Minh political logic 5.2 Contributions in reality perspective - On the general basis of the basic Ho Chi Minh political logic, the thesis analyzes, clarifies and affirms the values and the great stature of Ho Chi Minh through the application of Party and People during this current stage - The date and knowledge of the thesis may be used as teaching material for classes with the aim to enhance the political logic ability and political behaviour of the leader officials or managers Argumentative and reality meaning of the thesis 6.1 Argumentative meaning The thesis’s result will contribute to create the theoretical frame of logic, general political logic and particular Ho Chi Minh political logic It will become the base as well as the tool to analyze and to deeply know the foundation and specific traits of Ho Chi Minh political logic This content has never been researched systematically but it is very important to interpret the origin of political logic and behaviour among the human beings in general and towards Ho Chi Minh in particular 6.2 Reality meaning The thesis will contribute to the main picture of researches on Ho Chi Minh and consider it as a typically economic circumstance to apply it into the current political status The thesis will become the referenced document and suggestion for the future research on Politics, Ho Chi Minh study and related branches Structure of the thesis Beside the introduction, conclusion and reference index, the thesis also consists of chapters and sections Chapter OVERVIEW OF RESEARCH RELATING TO THE THESIS 1.1 Group of the researches mentioning logic This is one of the most attracted trends for the researchers and has gained plenty of success Through the sciencific projects, the authors have analyzed and explained the matters relating to the origin, nature, characteristics of logic and Dialectical materialism logic; the history of formation and development of Dialectical materialism logic; the relation between content and method, level and ability of logic, the regulations and rule of logic and Dialectical materialism logic; the relation between Dialectics logic and Formalism logic, etc, Through that process, the authors have contributed to deepen the most common argumentative problems of logic and Dialectical materialism logic, used the foundation of world outlook and methodology to build the scientific logic methods in awareness and world transformation Simultaneously, through these researches, the authors have led to many new problems that need to be concerned and continuosly resolved On the other hand, logic researches associates with the reform career received the concern of many domestic scientists, especially from the Doi Moi process of our country in 1986 until present Though these researches have the difference in the approaching method and content, they have the common point which is the resolution to the common argumentative matters on logic and Dialectical materialism logic must associate with the Reform career and Socialism construction in our country The contributions of these researches have clarified the common arguments on logic transformation, functions of logic renewal towards the Reform process, Socialism construction, our current situations along with the problems of logic that need solutions along with their causes After the analysis of argumentative basis and reality, the authors have recommended some methods of our Party to improve the weaknesses in thoughts and activities of our officials so as to meet the demand of general Reform career and logic reform process particularly Among these matters, all the authors have affirmed the scientific nature of Dialectic materialism to the officials is the best way to ỉmprove the weaknesses in our logic 1.2 Group of researches mentioning the political ideology and political logic This is the content that has not attracted much attention in both domestic and international arena The researches on this content have brought about many different viewpoints on political logic, but in general they are both unanimous that political logic is a process gathering and transfering information to form the viewpoints based on the knowledge of political issues The authors have distinguished the political logic with the logic of politics Politics is an important factor of political logic The logic of politics wants to mention the sustainable matters on ideology and morality that mention the political languages Political logic wants to express a system of logic - reality relating to the collective actions, to distinguish with the art logic, historical logic, moral logic However, political logic consists of at least characteristics : i) Arranging the meaning of social targets, requirements, processes and structures according to the importance or emergency level; ii) Mobilizing the support by accepting, defending, criticizing or objecting to the collective entity, procedure and its activities; iii) Reflecting the stability or instability through the calculation of cooperation plans, divergence, disputes over the arguments of groups; iv) Making decision and policies through the construction plans and collective guidance and common outlook; v) Holding the power of words through the convincing skills, making speech, expressing feelings; vi) Making the topics for present : dividing and adjusting the different fields and the authority boundary among the social fields along with maintaining the political privilege in the limitation On the other hand, the researches also deal with the structure of political logic, political logic method and factors affecting the formation of individual as well as community political logic Moreover, it also affirms the influence of political logic on the nations’politics along with the relation between political logic and political culture 1.3 Groups of researches mentioning logic, Ho Chi Minh political logic Although the scientific researches has turned into a unified conclusion of existing Ho Chi Minh political logic, they have just stopped at bringing about a problem or methodology, not the specialized research of Ho Chi Minh political logic to apply into real situation in our country These researches have provided the authors with all-sided approaches so as to form the tool and specialized knowledge when doing the thesis The researches within and outside the country have had the contributions to the process that explores logic and human brain’s activities They also mention a kind of human logic at the first level : political logic However, the number of researches on Ho Chi Minh political logic is not really high It causes the disadvantages to the authors when researching, but also creates the new characteristic for the targets and approaching methods Therefore, this topic will take part in fulfilling the range of Ho Chi Minh study as well as Politics research Interpreting a topic which has not been chosen in thesis topic creates many disadvantages in using the directly related researches It will make some troubles when researching, especially a thesis with the limitation of time as well as the legal standards However, awareness is a process in which the more the targets are researched, the more we figure out that our knowledge is quite limited Moreover, fully understanding of human is out of ability towards anybody, especially when researching a great historical character like President Ho Chi Minh The thesis desires to open some aspects of the general picture It is essential to understand a person comprehensively and totally and it also contributes to add more knowledge to the enormous scientific library Chapter THEORETICAL ISSUES ABOUT POLITICAL THINKING AND ELEMENTS FORMING HO CHI MINH’S POLITICAL THINKING 2.1 Theoretical issues about thinking, political thinking and Ho Chi Minh’s political thought 2.1.1 The concept of thinking Thinking is a complex concept with many different commentaries in many ways, depending on the philosophical viewpoint, researching area, specialized research, But different concepts of thinking have something in common, it is: human thinking process must be accompanied with awareness, from realistic feeling to analysis and judgment to objective reality (including judgments, judgment is an expression of thinking, it determines the true or false value of the object man is thinking) under the logic necessary to deeply recognize objective reality (through language, signs and images) and find a direction and solution to modify objective reality in order to bring benefits to the people and communities The thesis neither studies thinking as a complex psychological process as psychology approach does nor as a process dissect the activity of neurons in psychoanalytic research Thinking, here, is studied as activities that occur in human brain with distributed operations analysis, synthesis, comparison, compare to form opinions, thoughts, words, actions to improve objective reality It is an advanced stage of cognitive processes including acquisition, processing information and generating new knowledge in operations analysis, synthesis, comparison to create the awareness and improve the world through practical activities of man Thinking occurs when practical problems arise, in other words, it is practical problems that require thinking When the practice impacts, knowledge transfer into human brains, meanwhile, takes place in the brain’s process of analysis, synthesis, comparison, comparison they are the manipulations of thinking that take place to address management information The result of this process will be reflected in language (including speech and writing, gestures) In this process, knowledge and practical circumstances should be regarded as raw materials, inputs of thinking From the knowledge about things that people take actions accordingly In turns, the real action was to provide evidence for a new thinking process So, the consideration of thinking should include the content of thinking, the way of thinking and the product of thinking The content of thinking is the practical situation and it will be reflected throughout the process of thinking, through the manipulation analyze, synthesize, compare, compare to create the products of thinking they are thoughts, views, behavior Products of thinking is knowledge (knowledge about the objects, phenomena) Knowledge is manifested through thought, perspective, human behavior So thoughts, views, behavior are the expression of man's understanding of the objective world, which is the product of the process of analysis, synthesis, comparison and matching taking place in man’s brain Therefore, learn about thinking (as a process) is different from exploring thoughts (as a result of the thinking process), although they have anintimate, inseparable relation Thought, under any form of public expression ( concepts, categories, perspectives, politics are the results of thinking Correct thinking leads to right thought, action and vice versa, incorrect thinkings leads to wrong thoughts and actions * Thinking Classification: There are many ways to classify thinking, based on different criteria: - Based on the level of thinking: there are experient thinking and theoretical thinking Experient thinking is a stage of cognitive rationality, in which people draw the knowledge about the material, objective phenomenon, primarily through the older generalizations, inductive materials experience Theoretical thinking is rational cognitive stage, in which knowledge is drawn on the basis of an overview of the achievements of the previous periods - According to thinking area: there are: political, economica, scientific, philosophical, art, militaristic, cultural, religious thinking - According to the form of thinking, there are dialectical thinking, metaphysical, logical thinking, non- logical, integrated thinking, analysis, creative thinking, dogma, thinking positive, negative etc The taxonomy is only relative because they're interwoven, blended together Using the same kind of thinking for many different areas and vice versa when thinking about a field that can simultaneously use various types, many different forms of thinking Therefore, in each subject, the type of thinking, thinking forms blend to create unity and distinctive in the minds of every person Thus, "political thinking" is a kind of thinking based on the field of social development Political thought has some commons in the concept of "thinking" but also has some features, with specific characteristics to distinguish them from thinking in other areas This characteristic is dominated by political activists 2.1.2 Political Thinking Political thinkingis the activities of human brain to receive, process and produce knowledge about how to win, to hold and to exercise power to help human percept, plan and implement political decisions In other words, political thinking is thinking about political matters in a certain way In this sense, political thought appeared with the emergence of state, owned class nature and dominated by class stance Products of thinking process are the ideological point of view or the "technology" to resolve conflicts in political reality Political thinking of each person depends on many factors: the objective factors are: the practical conditions, the value in the history of thought, ideology and dominant orthodoxy; the subjective one is the capacity of man In the same practical circumstances, the same living conditions, the same class standpoint, the same ideological, but the way of thinking is different from man to man Therefore, each person's way of thinking primarily due to subjective specified factors Subjective elements are formed from innate qualities, are trained through practical activities with the capacity, quality and mettle to metabolize certain objective factors on subjective prism of each person Political thinking has close relationship and has a dialectical impact to political ideology Ideology and political systems reflect the views of political and economic relations between classes, between nations and between peoples around the issue of winning, keeping, and organizing and implementing state power Political thinking always arises from a socio - economic conditions of acertain society Thus, political thinking and political ideology have close relationships and interactions Thinking is the process of political concern, think about the political issues, and ideas are the results of that process To understand the political thinking of a person, 11 Second, Russian October Revolution triumphed and the advent of the III International with Lenin's great contributions that directly impacting and deciding factors to the formation of Ho Chi Minh’s political thinking Third, the national liberation movement this time had a transformation and posed new requirements that should have a consistent ideology to meet urgent demands of the revolution The process of traveling, exploring, testing and determining the path for national salvation, liberation of Ho Chi Minh not only met Vietnam's political reality, but also reflected the trend of the world revolutionary movement It reflected the scientific revolution of Ho Chi Minh’s political thinking Thus, the economic - political - society conditions of the homeland, the country, and the time was the first ground that affected the formation of Ho Chi Minh’s political thinking In addition to practical origin, Ho Chi Minh’s political thinking also based on the inheritance theoretical achievements in the history of human thought * Thinking - reasoning factors - The typical political thinking of Vietnam: community; humanity - rooted - Typical Eastern political thinking: "People - rooted" toward finding an ideal king to state power The village community and centralization trend of central political institutions respected “peace” and “hamony" - Typical rational Western Political Thinking: It was thought to respect and uphold human individuals; respecting the nature of the movement and social development Thinking seeked to focus the West rationalized, objectified features in the design, construction and operation of institutions and political institutions Thinking focuses on build forms of government organizations operating in an objective manner, in accordance with the will and interests of the ruling class but less dependent on the individual power Thinking about the concentration of power into the virtuous leader, talented and reputatable; the participation of the elite leadership team with special qualities and intellecture in the state apparatus - Marxist - Leninist political thinking - materialistic dialectical method of thinking This is the typical method of thinking, covering most dominant thinking in all areas In certain aspects, the method of thinking is another concrete manifestation of dialectical thinking Thanks to the dialectical method of thinking, Ho Chi Minh recorded, total - integrated and creative applicated in practical revolutionary Vietnam To collect and study Marxism - Leninism with the path Lenin had directed, applying dialectical thinking methods, Nguyen Ai Quoc created a suitable path for Vietnam's revolution to win completely Marxist - Leninist, terms of geographic, is Western thinking, but due to it’s decisive influence to the formation and development of Ho Chi Minh’s political thinking, the thesis considers it a separate element 12 In short, Ho Chi Minh’s political thinking is a node of the nation’s intellectual and the era’s intellectual It was the movement, the development of patriotism in Vietnam late nineteenth century to the 20s of the twentieth century, when catchint Marxism Leninism, Ho Chi Minh’s political thinking was formed With his receptive, creative application, Ho Chi Minh contributed an additional steps, methods to develop, enrich Marxism - Leninism with new arguments, drawn from the practices of the country and its people Economic context - domestic and international political factors, along with the source argument on objective, were all impacted to the formation of Ho Chi Minh’s political thinking 2.2.2 Ho Chi Minh’s subjective factors and practices Regarding quality, in Ho Chi Minh convergenced all the qualities needed for a true revolutionaries The soul of a great patriot, a fervent communist revolutionary soldiers, willing to sacrifices for national independence and freedom of the people He had an intense faith in the people He had a casual style, sincerity, modesty, mingled with the masses and convince to big for everyone Regarding capacity, Ho Chi Minh has super abilities He was intelligent, astute, sensitive to the new and had independent creative thinking; erudite wisdom, deep knowledge He had been exposed to many different cultures, so that he himself knew many languages and accepted the positive changes of the international situation and the legacy ideological achievements of human culture to creatively apply to Vietnam and practical answers the requirements of Vietnam's revolution The natural talent and rarely personal qualities prescribed in Ho Chi Minh allowed him integrate values embodied the essence of national and era culture to form his own ideas in the process of filtering, re-creating, transforming development knowledge The quality was not that natural It is the result of complex conditions, the active, self- initiative of Ho Chi Minh In particular, mention must first engagement, penetrated into the life working people, not only the lives of Vietnam's labor, but also the lives of workers in many countries across the continent, not only in countries that colonized but in the metropolitan countries Since then, he had a comprehensive view, profoundly human life labor under the capitalist regime, especially the lives of workers suffering the colony Since then, he actively jointed the struggle revolutionary in the labor movement and national liberation movements in the colonial world In summary, the economic- political - social conditions and ideological premise, are objective basis affects the formation of Ho Chi Minh’s political thinking In the formation and development of thinking, biological factors and it’s evolution plays a very important role, but the creative decisions of thinking is the social relations This shows that, the objective basis is necessary but not sufficient condition for the formation of Ho 13 Chi Minh’s political thinking The subjective factor of capacity, personal qualities and practices are the most decisive factors, the key to creativity that led to success in his political career He combined these and cleverly made use of special form of his political thinking In other words, Ho Chi Minh’s political thinking is a product of a clever combination between the objective and subjective factors These factors have always changing in accordance with the history, set the stage for the transformation and development of Ho Chi Minh’s political thinking His political thinking, therefore, always had an additional development on the correspond practical platform and made its own characteristics, notably and can not be mistaken with any other politicians Chapter KEY CHARACTERISTICS OF HO CHI MINH’S POLITICAL THINKING 3.1 The special points in the content of Ho Chi Minh’s political thinking 3.1.1 Thinking about the choice of the objective of Vietnam revolutionary This is expressed first of all in thinking about the selection of Vietnam's revolutionary path: National independence associated with socialism This is covering and vital content, containing Ho Chi Minh’s creative in comparison with his predecessors, the contemporary politicians of the country and the world The revolutionary targeting primarily derived from the wisdom of the choice to seek a path of national liberation - the path to the West This was a creative point in Ho Chi Minh’s thinking in comparison with same time patriots and started his political career The way that Ho Chi Minh selected as national independence associated with socialism The goal was confirmed consistently since the 1920s, to find a way to help the country until after the government won, the administration building According to Ho Chi Minh, socialism only brings new life of freedom, true happiness for the people The goal of the revolutionary path in Ho Chi Minh’s thought was fundamental difference with the way of the patriots in the nation's history 3.1.2 Thinking about the way and method to achieve revolutionary goals It is the thinking about the revolutionary methods and forces, the role of party organizations for the victory of the revolution Ho Chi Minh had launched the innovative argument, even contrary to the views of the comrades in the Communist International Typically, it is the view of the revolutionary forces In Brief political platform, Ho Chi Minh wrote: "the Party must be very in touch with bourgeois intellectuals, middle peasants, youth, Tan Viet etc to pull them away on the side of the proletariat class As for rich farmers, medium, small landowners and 14 An Nam capitalists who were unclear counter-revolutionary, must take advantage of, and then make them neutral Which parts were the counter-revolutionary (the Constitutional Party, etc.) must be overthrown” The international communist comrades who dominated by left, lonely, narrowminded tendencies had made many wrong judgments in matters of national liberation revolution They said the first task of the revolution is the liberation of the class Only when the proletariat won, then they could help the colonies win They identified forces carried out the revolution mainly of workers, peasants, and national bourgeoisie, bourgeois, middle peasants were counter-revolutionary forces Obviously, the point of view of Nguyen Ai Quoc was in stark contrast to the hardening of perceptions, "leftist" mistakes that existed in the Communist International So then they had criticized harshly Nguyen Ai Quoc, affecting the role and activities of him But, with firm political bravery, Ho Chi Minh is not afraid of attribution in revisionist tendencies He also did not bind himself to dogmatic thinking, but aims to creatively combine the common values of Marxism - Leninism with the practice in Vietnam The creative expression that is unique in the political thinking of Ho Chi Minh 3.1.3 Thinking about building an ideal state institutions for the people of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh aimed at constructing a new state model in Vietnam after independence: a government employed by the working people, or a government of the people, by the people, for the people That State break with hereditary monarchy and mode of French colonial domination It is a republic, power belongs to the people People exercise their power directly or indirectly through representatives elected by the people But what kind of Republican best suited to historical circumstances and aspirations of the people of Vietnam Selecting an institution that could meet Vietnam’s social realities is also a peerless creative of Ho Chi Minh This creation was the result of time he had traveled overseas with his capacity of thinking and rich practices Ho Chi Minh found a particular state model of Vietnam in accordance with conditions of an Eastern nation which want to escape from colonial semi-feudal, to build a perfect life, happiness for the people, to have independence, sovereign and not to depend on other powers According to him, in that state, people who hold a decisive role in all fields of economics, politics, culture and society People have the right to selfemployed, meaning that there is a right to have his body protected and freedom of movement, freedom of profession, freedom of speech, and freedom of study in the framework of the law People have the right to collective ownership, local ownership, home and working places ownership People were the masters of all the unions, the social and political institutions through elections and dismissal State's inheritance, development and creative application of the models which used in history is to choose a 15 suitable model for practical and cultural traditions of the people of Vietnam That state is unity between classes, people and humanity, bringing its own characteristics on the basis of inheriting the advanced state model of Vietnam and the world It is the product of independent, innovative and revolutionary in the political thinking of Ho Chi Minh It also had created a character, and the difference in his successful political career 3.2 The main characteristics of the process of political thinking of Ho Chi Minh 3.2.1 As the system Systems and consistency thinking are the hallmarks of the theoretical thinking of Ho Chi Minh He had an overview, look at things in a holistic unity of the parts to the whole, between the individual with the general trend of the world From the general perception, from the system of the world revolution, he got the position, the role of revolution in Vietnam's trend Achieving that level, Ho Chi Minh had developed politics not only to political science, but also the art of leadership, talent and ability is innate politician Ho Chi Minh’s political thinking systematic expressed in many ways It is a systematic relationship between the revolutions of national liberation in Vietnam with the world revolutionary movement; the recognition of a socialist society is not immutable but need to be considered in a state of movement, change and frequently renovated Ho Chi Minh’s political thinking systematic also expressed in a multidimensional perspective, the coexistence of opposing attributes and the interaction of opposites, the transformation between opposites with each others to create higher quality in the development process of the system; or it is the similarities found in the difference between the theories, as well as seeing the difference in the basis of considering the history of Marxism - Leninism Systemic thinking had helped Ho Chi Minh formed the opinion, thought, way, method, force, the role of the organization to win, keep and enforce the rights of the people of Vietnam It is also the hallmarks to dominate the process of political thinking of Ho Chi Minh 3.2.2 Promoting practices and anti-dogmatism Ho Chi Minh is a typical Marxist; he creatively applied Marxist analysis to the issue of national liberation according to the dialectical method and practical standpoint Throughout the process of political thinking, practical perspective was considered the starting point, the motive and the purpose of the political career of Ho Chi Minh Through practical thinking, he creatively applied Marxism - Leninism to the specific circumstances of Vietnam and offered a way to go for revolution It also was a source of his ideas and creatively political behavior Practicality in Ho Chi Minh thinking had been shown through the perspective of the relationship between the theory and the practice; in the process of forming the 16 viewpoint of Vietnam's revolution And above all, practicality expressed by his own actions In Ho Chi Minh, thinking is to action, to improve practice, to liberate the nation and liberation of the people The liberation of the people are the urgent tasks, must be placed on top Therefore, to explore, to think to answer the demands of practice are in place, there is no time to think impracticable, or think that far from practical requirements Ho Chi Minh just thought about what practices are required to solve her own practice All his thoughts were rooted in reality and practicality to serve through action Ho Chi Minh’s political thinking therefore always is present in the action, with action to express his thinking, even thinking primarily understood through action This is different from many thinkers, politicians around the world 3.2.3 Putting national interests as top political priority From the first post to the last page, from newspapers, poetry, short stories to the text were shown the aspirations of independence, freedom of Ho Chi Minh The whole of his last wills is “the whole our Party and people have to unite and build a country of Vietnam peaceful, unified, independent, democratic, prosperous and worthy contribution to the cause of world revolution" in thoughts of Ho Chi Minh, national independence must be a full and true independence and it is performed thoroughly according to the principles of the country of Vietnam must belong to Vietnamese; all matters of national sovereignty can be solved by the people of Vietnam, no foreign intervention People of Vietnam not accept any intervention; all the support and help Vietnam fight for independence, freedom is welcome and appreciate; any imposition infringe national sovereignty are denied, dismissed That independence by the people of Vietnam won through struggle and it brings a life of freedom and happiness for the people Ho Chi Minh had devoted all his life to think what to to perform for the country's independence and freedom for the people, our fellow citizens who have enough food, clothing and education as well That was the principle, the direction in thinking and political action of Ho Chi Minh 3.2.4 Flexibility and improvisation President Ho Chi Minh was a communist soldier in target consistent and flexible in approach His supreme purpose was for the nation's independence and freedom for the people happy The goal is immutable, but to achieve this is a process fraught with difficulties and hardships, requires struggle, sacrifice of many classes of people, many generations In each step up, revolutionaries have to deal with numerous variations, requires revolutionaries to clear, sober, sensible way to fight change to suit the specific historical conditions that poses the struggle The strategy in a specified period of time did not harm “the immutable ", meaning the long-term objectives had been identified 17 Flexible method, sometimes offensive and sometimes retreating sometimes need to compromise on principles to achieve long-term goals It is not only the science but also an art of Ho Chi Minh's revolutionary This was shown most outstanding revolutionary period Vietnam during the period 1945-1946 Main flexibility, improvisation during the revolutionary leadership had shown his character and talent This is a typical characteristic, made the distinctive features of the political thinking of Ho Chi Minh 3.2.5 Predictability In Ho Chi Minh, the ability to predict had been established since the early revolutionary activities This is one of the decisive factors leading to the success of Vietnam's revolution That thinking was expressed through the comments on the times, the trends in the international political situation from which he made the right decisions for Vietnam's revolution It is a manifestation of a strategic thinking with the ability to analyze the situation in the country, the world, the master of the objective laws of history, properly identifying characteristics and development trend of the times, given ability to accurately forecast trends and development of the world revolution On that basis, he gave an assessment of the situation of Vietnam's revolution That thinking was imbued with the expression of the dialectic materialism combined with Vietnam and Eastern philosophy, on the basis of understanding the geopolitical situation in the world, in the country to have the optimal decision This represented a visionary, wide and deep - a determining factor in the success or failure of his political career without any politician has been Predictability in the political thinking of Ho Chi Minh had been shown throughout the course of the revolutionary leadership of Vietnam The assessments and way which he outlined for revolution was typical for his thinking It is also an expression of the genius of Ho Chi Minh City, but certainly not owerned by many other politicians and revolutionaries in the country and the world 3.2.6 Humanity Humanity in the political thinking of Ho Chi Minh means actually to think about people, people-centered and for all people This type of thinking of Ho Chi Minh had been confirmed and practiced skillfully and cleverly made the culture in Ho Chi Minh’s politics The humanity of his behavior had raised him to a higher level of culture It was the political culture of Ho Chi Minh had shown both in thought and action Humanity, culture in political thought Ho Chi Minh is reflected in the respect of human rights, the highest aim, and final goal of the revolution is the liberation of man The goal was to dominate every thought and political action of Ho Chi Minh It was the successor to the ruling tradition of our nation and was also application of viewpoint of Marxism - Leninism on the role and power of the masses People are both the subject as 18 an objective of the revolution Political thinking of Ho Chi Minh takes people as the original This was also thinking about a moral politics Ho Chi Minh career to pursue is to strive "for our country to be completely independent, our people are entirely free, people who have enough food, clothing and education as well According to him, the highest morality is "wholeheartedly serving the people, ready to fight for the people, exemplary in all the work for the Party and for the people" Humanity in Ho Chi Minh’s political thinking also expressed tolerance in humans, with who makes mistakes and even enemies This had raised him to reach not only cultural tolerance, but also the culture in every gesture, every action, in daily life and in the harshest periods of the revolution Tolerance cultural helped him constantly open to absorb and positive factors, progressive and humanistic world to enrich the national culture This helped make a special point in Ho Chi Minh’s political thinking humanity and cultural thinking Chapter MEANING OF METHODOLOGY OF HO CHI MINH POLITICAL THOUGHT WITH THE INNOVATION POLITICAL THOUGHT IN VIETNAM TODAY 4.1 Political Thought in Vietnam after nearly 30 years of innovation Party's political thinking is the cognitive process of the path, the way of achieving socialism; restructuring of the organization and operation mechanism of the political system, firstly innovating methods of the Party leadership; innovate and improve the efficiency of state management in order to maintain political stability and to build a socialist regime stronger; implementation role of the Fatherland Front and other political organizations - to ensure socialistic democracy, promoting human rights of all people During the renovation process, the party insists Marxism - Leninism, Ho Chi Minh ideology underlying ideological lodestar for action Through applying the principles of Marxism, the instructions in thought and action of Ho Chi Minh that the innovation achieved significant achievements in all aspects 4.1.1 Thinking about socialism and the path to socialism in our country Immediately after establishing and during the revolutionary struggle, the Party has always affirmed that socialism is the goal and ideal of the Party and our people; go to socialism is an objective requirement, the inevitable path of Vietnam's revolution Perseverance independent and socialism in the current period was further confirmed our Party in the Party Congress documents, striving for the goal of " prosperous people, strong country, democracy, justice, "This is entirely consistent with Ho Chi Minh ideology on the overall goal of socialism in Vietnam 19 Applying the unique method of thinking of Ho Chi Minh confirmed the building socialism is a long process, arduous, difficult, challenging, therefore we must proceed gradually, step by step cautiously, solidly During the innovation, our Party has focused on solving economic tasks, develop of socialistic orientation market economy, expand international exchanges and cooperation, industrialization and modernization of the country, keeping political stability and national security, against the risk of instability and hamper in innovation process Promoting spirit of independent, creativity, autonomy on the basis of absorbing the achievements of the international community to draw out our Party lines and policies accord with the demands of real objective facts about the areas of economy, politics, culture, society, security and defense Here, innovation is the re-perception process of the form and step about socialism, abandon the utopia, dogma idea of socialism, give up previous wrong steps to take the nation out of the crisis, building and developing the nation according to chosen goal This has required a thinking innovation for our country, especially in political thinking innovation expressed primarily in content of planning and implementation of political decisions The innovation must be based on theory and practice in which certain, political thinking HCM is regarded as one of the important ideological basis for making that decision 4.1.2 Thinking about Party development As the initiator and leader of the national renewal, first of all, the party needs to renew and correct themselves to undertake new tasks of the revolution The renovation of the Party and the Party building work requires first of all to give up the ways of thinking and doing is not right in Party building and building socialism Therefore, it needs a advanced theoretical base Application of the Ho Chi Minh political thought of construction, renovation Party is a practical work leads to success Eleventh Party Congress continued to assert the leadership of the Party is the decisive factor leading to the success of Vietnam's revolution So that, the work of Party building should continue to innovate content, methods, further improve militancy, persuasive effectiveness of ideological work, propaganda and learning activities of Marxism - Leninism and Ho Chi Minh thought, the Party's guidelines, policies and laws of the State Uncompromising struggle to foil any conspiracy and activities "peaceful evolution" of the hostile forces Proactively preventing, combating and critical expression "self- evolution", " self-transformation" within us; overcome the deterioration of political ideology, ethics and lifestyle in a small section of cadres, party members" 4.1.3 Thinking about building rule of law with socialistic orientation Government is an important part of the political system and have a great impact on all aspects of social life The government apparatus and in accordance with the 20 requirements of economic development will become a major driving force to promote the development of productive forces In contrast becomes conservative forces, hindering social progress, can even pull back history Shortly after born, with the right leadership of the Party and President Ho Chi Minh, the government organized society completed tasks revolution After reunification, domestic and world economic-politics situation poses many changes required to renew the state organs Along with the innovative elements in the political system, the government also changes accordingly After nearly 30 years of innovation, the greatest achievement that the government has achieved successfully is to organize and implement the renewal of the party come to life, especially economic reforms, opening a turning point in transition economies from centralized mechanism, subsidized economy to a socialistic orientation market economy under the management of state; state apparatus was gradually switching mechanism operating areas of social life through the implementation of a major reform of the institutional system, first of all economic institutions and so on However, besides the achievements in the renewal process, the construction of the government is still weak, especially for the quality of leadership and management at all levels An indispensable requirement now is to find solutions to overcome the simultaneous existence and building government with clean, strong and efficient operation, improve people’s confidence to government For this, it is time to go back over all the treasures of theoretical Marxism-Leninism, especially in the political thought of Ho Chi Minh City of the state 4.1.4 Thinking about building national unity Inheriting and promoting Ho Chi Minh political thinking on the role of the strength of the national unity, the Party 's awareness of ethnic solidarity have developed day after day, particularly from VI Congress so far On the basis of awareness of role and power of the national unity expressed through the Congress, after nearly 30 years of innovation, our Party has achieved mass success in building unity population The collection of people with diverse forms has new development Fatherland Front at all levels has expanded its member organizations, actively guiding the residential facility and activities promoting democracy, participating and monitoring the implementation of laws and policies, expand and innovate activities of foreign people; constantly renewed and strengthened organizational structure, personnel Position and role of the Front continue to be raised, especially after Law Front continues to be issued 21 However, the national solidarity is expressed through the relationship between the Party, State and people are not really strong and are facing many challenges People’s belief in the Party, the state and the regime is unstable People's attitude are more complicated; resentment against social injustice and corruption, bureaucracy and waste are relatively common and severe, violation of social ethics increasing; domestic discipline is loose; implementation of guidelines, policies in some place is not strictly, words not go hand in hand with actions causing the loss of people's faith The set of people involved in social organizations as well as the activities of this organization is weak Activity of the Fatherland Front and mass organizations in many places also form, operating under heavy administration, and so on To address the above problem is to find effective solutions to build and maximize the role of national solidarity To this it is necessary to go back to the instructions of Ho Chi Minh on ethnic solidarity and, more importantly, to creatively apply these guidelines in the practice revolutionary Vietnam 4.1.5 Thinking about building officials As a professional political activist, Ho Chi Minh saw very clearly the role of officials in the revolutionary He said that staff is second conveyor apparatus of the Party, State and people's organizations, " who brought the policy of the Party and the Government to explain for people to understand and implement They also are the people to bring the social ideas to report to the Party, Government understands, from that to put the right policies" He said that official had to be the leader, it's just as loyal servants, the slaves of the people Therefore, according to Ho Chi Minh official must undergo training and retraining with many different forms, and he also stressed that training official is the roots of the Party Success or failure depended much on good or bad official Official is the subject of the revolution led by the Party Leadership positions, positions of official is due to the Party, State as well as officials of the task is assigned to by the people After nearly thirty years of innovation, with the vigorous activity in the practical reforms initiated by the Communist Party of Vietnam, the thinking of the team leaders, management has made certain changes On the field of theoretical thinking, management and leader officials in our country there has been more dynamic, innovative, adapting to the new mechanism; the level of knowledge and leadership capacity of economic-social management increasingly high Their role has been confirmed through the achievements of the innovation Besides these accomplishments, plenum, ( XI Party Congress ) also emphasized that "A small part of officials and party members, including those members hold leadership-management 22 positions, including a number of senior officials have degradation of political ideology, ethics and lifestyle with different manifestations of the fading ideal, succumbing to selfish individualism, opportunity, pragmatism, chasing fame, fortune, corruption, waste, depending facilities, unscrupulous " That reduces the credibility of the party, eroding people’s beliefs in the regime Currently practices poses new requirements and tasks require leaders who need continuous improvement to meet the needs of the revolution To so, more than ever, leaders need to study the characteristics of the political thought of Ho Chi Minh to build and train political thinking of themselves 4.2 Ho Chi Minh political thinking provides methodology for the renewal of political thought in Vietnam today 4.2.1 Renewing political thinking to ensure systematic and comprehensive base on practical foundation in Vietnam Social life is changing quite quickly in all aspects, and the different areas requires innovative thinking in all aspects of politics from economics, politics, culture and society It is a component of the overall social life that any change in public sector affects other sectors and the whole social life In particular, innovation is primarily derived from innovative political thinking Renewing political thinking is to change the mindset, attitudes, perceptions, goals, or in other words how the changing political views on the path to achieve the overall objectives of the country That is the basis, the foundation for the dominant influence and changes other aspects of social life 4.2.2 Renewing political thinking must take national interests as foundation In the current renewal process, to ensure that benefits the people and the nation, it needs to avoid dominant of interest groups It is time to build a mechanism "lobbying" ( lobby ) publicity, transparency, compliance with the law The most important thing in this issue is not to put group interest higher than national interest during the renewal of the politics and economy The most important task in this regard is said State's conditioning benefits on the basis of putting national interests first By doing so, the State can mobilize the power of ethnic communities strive for the common goal is "to bring Vietnam out of underdevelopment, creating a foundation in 2020 to basically turn our country into a modern industrialized” Putting benefit of the people is the foundation also means that all policies and guidelines of Party and State must be suitable with that Party doesn’t have any benefit outside the people’s benefit This requires the Party to actually instill and manipulate Ho Chi Minh thinking about the role and power of the masses in the revolutionary 23 Party must close to the people to understand feelings and aspirations of the people, practices, from that issue policies in accordance with the people, promote the strength of the entire population to participate in reform, innovation and clean up the political system in general and state in particular 4.2.3 Renewing political thinking should have a strategic vision and flexible implementation The identification of strategic vision is an expression of strategic thinking based on the analysis of objective reality and forecast the development trend for building strategic action This is one of the important factors determining the sustainable right of political decisions However, the determination of that vision, in the process of implementing an objective and subjective response requires timely Party to steer Vietnam's revolution go to complete victory The forecast shows the opportunities and challenges in the development process, the basis for the party to seize opportunities, overcome challenges to win 4.2.4 Renewing political thinking towards a humanistic cultural politics Any change in political direction, finally lead to a politics of the people and for the people, to ensure the benefit of people, promotes real sovereignty of the people A politics for the people is cultural politics Only when politics really for most people, for the legitimate rights and interests of the majority of people, which is humanistic politics Because the birth, survival and development of any politics must be formed from the people Although the people in concept in each political regime is different from other but a cultural politics is politics toward legitimate rights and interests of the majority of people It is politics as Ho Chi Minh said: of the people, by the people and for the people - the people's politics To form this cultural politics, we must first be derived from activity of leaders, rulers, decision makers and policy advocates pioneer in implementing the policy Therefore, the construction of political thinking for leaders under political thought Ho Chi Minh is the first work to build politics for the people 24 CONCLUSION In Ho Chi Minh methodology, the method and ways of thinking, is important role, factors to establish direct ideological perspective The study of the political thought of Ho Chi Minh is looking for roots of political thought and political action There must be thinking of how Ho Chi Minh made the right decision to bring victory for Vietnam's revolution This is the key explanation for the creation of ideological and political activity of Ho Chi Minh - what makes unique, not duplicated in any of the thinker, the great leader of the world species people - political style of Ho Chi Minh From the research, exploration and generalization of creative thinking in the political content of Ho Chi Minh, we can draw the main characteristics of Ho Chi Minh’s political thinking That is the principle, the root to create innovative ideas and political action The characteristics contain not only general characteristics of political thinking but also contain his own imprint about political thinking In limited studies of the thesis, the authors initially generalize on some basic characteristics of Ho Chi Minh’s political thought: systemic, practical, ethnicity, flexibility, forecast, humanities - culture Prior to the volatility of the political situation in the country and in the world today, it have shown the necessity of a progressive and scientific political thought with many features that Ho Chi Minh’s political thinking is typical The forming and implementing a revolutionary, scientific political thinking exercise is the basis for the formation of the system views, thoughts and behaviors of political correctness Purpose of innovation is towards politics for all human beings with basic human rights stated in the Charter of Human Rights In Vietnam, the renovation work has been carried out near 30 with significant achievements, the country escape from the brink of collapse; economic growth speed is constant and sustainable, people's lives are radically changed both physically and mentally; Vietnam's position in the international arena has been confirmed with the practical contribution, the role of Vietnam in the world revolutionary movement for Peace Democracy - Progress is improve significantly However, besides the achievements are challenges and limitations that requires continuous efforts of all organizations, unions, ethnics, religious and every patriotic people of Vietnam In particular, the first responsibility of the Communist Party of Vietnam - the vanguard of the working class and working people, the elite forces of society to be trusted by the people Facing with problems piling up, it is requiring solidarity of the entire Party, people and army in the revolution to fight against corruption, waste - these insects are gouged, conspiracy to break centuries achievements of our people More than ever, it is time to return with the instructions that Ho Chi Minh has devoted his life to implement, in which the main stems primarily from his way of thinking Political Thought of Ho Chi Minh is an invaluable asset to the party and our people continue to study and practice to put the Vietnam revolutionary boat win the lasting value since Independence, freedom, happiness for the people./ LIST OF AUTHOR’S RESARCH PAPERS DISCLOSURE 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