From: nguyen@airmics.gatech.edu (Son Nguyen)
Subject: Re:  NEWS/VN: VN intellectuals urge dropping of communism
Originator: daemon@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Reply-To: nguyen@airmics.gatech.edu
Organization: N/A
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 20:05:46 GMT

 > 08/12
 > 
 > VIETNAM INTELLECTUALS URGE DROPPING OF COMMUNISM
 > 
 >     By Kathleen Callo
 >     HANOI, Aug 12, Reuter - Vietnamese intellectuals have been urging the ruling
 > Communist Party to drop its Marxist ideology and allow greater freedom of
 > expression, a prominent academic said on Wednesday.
 >     Phan Dinh Dieu, the deputy head of the National Centre for Scientific
 > Research, said he had urged the party chief, Do Muoi, to accept more political
 > openness and drop irrelevant ideology.
 >     Dieu said that at one meeting with Do Muoi last year, the two of them spent
 > more than three hours discussing his petition blaming socialism for ruining the
 > economy.


Thu+a Nga`i Phan dinh Dieu,

You got to be kidding.

Bie^'t bao nhie^u nha` kinh bang te^' the^' dda.i ta`i Vie^.t Nam o+?
quo^'c ngoa.i xa'c ddi.nh ra<`ng chi'nh vi` My~ ca^'m va^.n ne^n gio+`
VN mo+'i ra no^ng no^?i na`y.

Ne^'u ma` My~ bo? le^.nh ca^'m va^.n ca`ng so+'m ca`ng to^'t thi` da^n
se~ so+'m no co+m, a^'m ca^.t, va` dda^'t Vie^.t so+'m pho^`n thi.nh
kho^ng thua gi` Nha^.t bo^?n dda^'y.

DDa^'y la` do lo^~i o+? bo.n dde^' quo^'c My~, cho+' dda^u pha?i lo^~i
o+? DDa?ng va` Nha` Nu+o+'c dda^u?  Nga`i co' bie^'t cha<ng?

Gio+` chi? ca^`n co' My~ ba~i bo? ca^'m va^.n nu+~a tho^i thi` DDa?ng
va` Nha` Nu+o+'c se~ tie^'n le^n trong vinh quang chie^'n tha<'ng vo+'i
qua^`n chu'ng tho^i.

Xin nga`i xe't la.i ngo^n ngu+~ cu?a nga`i ddi.  DDu+`ng dde^? ca'c vi.
kinh bang te^' the^' o+? ngoa.i quo^'c vi` ye^u ra^n, ye^u nu+o+'c ma`
dda^m ra buo^`n phie^`n vi` ca'i lo^'i pha't ngo^n tai ha.i cu?a
nga`i.

Nay ki'nh,

Tu+. Ro

 >     "I told Mr Do Muoi: 'I hope you can transform the Communist Party from a
 > party of dictatorship to a party of leadership in a democratic society'," Dieu
 > said.
 >     Dieu, a 55-year-old mathematician, said most members of the Communist Party
 > no longer believed in communism.
 >     Intellectuals were now urging the party to recast itself as a patriotic or
 > nationalist party, he said, adding that the present Communist Party was more
 > popular than sister parties in the old Soviet bloc because of its original
 > struggle against French colonialism.
 >     "There have been some changes in the last year but they are not enough," he
 > told Reuters in an interview.
 >     People could now circulate criticial petitions like his but the official
 > media would not publish them, he said. Four or five years ago people risked
 > arrest for even circulating such tracts.
 >     Some people say the official media have been told to avoid criticising
 > communism since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
 >     But Dieu said Vietnamese in state offices -- including two top party
 > institutions -- were hotly debating the crisis of Marxism-Leninism, the Soviet
 > collapse and the future of Vietnam.
 >     The party offices were the Nguyen Ai Quoc institute, the institute of higher
 > learning for top party cadres, where he recently lectured, and the
 > Marxism-Leninism Institute, a party think-tank.
 >     "There is a contradiction. In the press there is perhaps less freedom but
 > among the people, in the institutions, in the collectives, there is more debate,
 > more discussion," he said.
 >     "If you compare the political climate in our country now to five or six
 > years ago, we have made progress...the process of change in the party will be
 > very complicated, not a straight line."
 >     Diplomats told Reuters recently that five or six people were arrested this
 > spring for political reasons in Danang, Hue and Ho Chi Minh City, including a
 > man who expressed support for change in the former Soviet Union.
 >     No immediate confirmation was available from the government, which denies
 > holding political prisoners.
 >     The communist party began to move in the mid-1980s from a centrally-planned
 > to a market economy. The shift was accompanied by limited political reforms
 > allowing more freedom of speech and giving government and legislative bodies
 > more independence from the once-all powerful communist party.
 > 
 > 


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