Kaysone Phomvihane
Marxism–Leninism and Kaysone Phomvihane Thought (2016 onwards) are the party's guiding ideas. Kaysone Phomvihane said as much in 1970: "The resounding victories of the Indochinese peoples in the past quarter-century cannot be separated from the introduction of Marxism–Leninism into Indochina [and that it] provides guidance for its action