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  The Vietnamese Communist Party’s Policy of Mobilizing Women in the 1930-1945 Revolution for the National Liberation * (In Vietnam Journal of Family and Gender Studies, Dec2007, volume 2, number 2, from p 24 to p38) Dang Thi Van Chi      In the early 20th century, as a result of two campaigns of colony exploitation by the French colonialists, there were important economic, social and cultural changes. These were important and necessary basics for the reception of bourgeois democratic thoughts from outside and the establishment of new trends in revolutionary propaganda. Along with these changes, the increasing presence of women in factories, plantations, and mines participating in socialized forms of labor brought about by capitalist methods of production and the emergence of a class of women intellectuals (teachers, journalists, writers, poets, etc.) caused women to become an important social force, attracting the attention and efforts of all contemporary po...

President Ho in Viet Bac (1948) - a sketch by Phan Ke An On revolutionary morality - Ho Chi Minh (1958)    Ever since the beginning of its existence mankind has had to struggle against   nature - wild beasts, the weather, etc, - in order to survive. To succeed in   this struggle each individual must rely on the force of large numbers of   people, on the collective, on society. Alone, he cannot get the better of   nature and subsist.    In order to survive, man must also produce to get food and clothing.  Production, too must rely on the collective, on society. Alone, the individual   cannot produce.    Our era being a civilized, revolutionary era, one must rely all the more on   the force of the collective, of society, in all undertakings. More than ever   the individual cannot stand apart but must join the collective, join society.    Therefore, individualism goes counter to collectivism; collectivism and ...