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 Today,
May 5, the Vietnamese people together with progressive human
kind solemnly celebrate the 190th birthday of Karl Marx, the
great ideologist, talented leader and the founder of the
revolutionary doctrine which led the working class, oppressed
and people working people around the world in their
revolutionary struggle for self-emancipation.
The life and work of Marx entered
the history of human kind as a great and exemplary man
concerning his scientific contributions and noble
revolutionary sentiment as Engels put it "his name and cause
will live forever."
By having a close attachment to
practice, inheriting and perfecting the major ideological
trends in the 19th century, Marx carried out a thorough-going
revolution in philosophy when he represented his scientific
discoveries on dialectical materialism and historical
materialism, one of the greatest achievements of human
thought.
Marxism was not only a weapon to
know the world but also a weapon to transform the world in
conformity with the law. From human being, the centre of every
social activities, Marx came with exact explanations on the
mode of production, the role of the masses, the class, the
class struggle, on the nation and humanity.
By applying dialectical and
historical materialism to the research of capitalism, Marx
discovered the law of the mode of capitalist production.
Marxism disclosed the economic law
of capitalist society as well as its process of appearance,
development and destruction. The theory on surplus value was
one of Marx's greatest discoveries, helping human kind
thoroughly understand the unchangeable exploiting nature of
capitalism.
K. Marx also left a valuable
theoretical treasure on the commodity economy and market. It
was Marx who pointed out that the commodity and market
relations existed in many different economic and social forms
and always stayed under the control of the mode of production.
Marx founded scientific socialism,
the theory on the cause of liberating the working class and
human kind from all forms of oppression, exploitation and
depravity. Thanks to its scientific methodology and world
outlook, Marxism discovered the developmental law of society
and the social forces which could wipe out capitalism and
create new society, is the proletariat.
Marx and Engels pointed out the
way for the proletarian class to rise up to overthrow the
capitalist society. The Communist Party, the political party
of the working class, was the force which could lead the
working class and working people to carry out revolution to
remove the old oppressive and exploitative system and build a
new regime, the communist regime.
Marx was a talented theorist and
also a great revolutionary. While the movement of the working
class was surging, Marx carried out many practical activities.
In 1864 in London, he founded the International Workingmen's
Association (the First International).
Marx was the major encourager and
leader of the First International. He undauntedly fought
against all opportunist and anarchist activities in the
movement of the working class and worked out revolutionary
tactics in its struggle.
Marx and Engels often said that
their theories were not a dogma but a guideline for action.
Lenin, the successor of Marx and Engels, developed Marxism in
the period of imperialism and the epoch of the proletarian
revolution into Marxism-Leninism, the pinnacle of human
intelligence.
During his challenging years of
finding a way for national salvation, President Ho Chi Minh
was the first Vietnamese revolutionary who found the light of
Marxism-Leninism shining the way to emancipate the nation and
the class. Since then, Marxism-Leninism had always been the
torch leading the way for the Vietnamese revolution to win one
victory after another. The success of the revolution for
national liberation and reunification and the building of
socialism on a nationwide scale, especially the great
achievements of historical significance during the past 20
years of renovation is a vivid evidence concerning the
consistent and creative application of Marxism-Leninism to the
construction and defence of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
In recent years, the world has
experienced many changes and socialism was temporarily a
setback. Hostile forces have tried by various ways and means
to sling mud at and distort Marxism-Leninism. However,
scientific socialism still attracts the hearts and minds of
millions of working people around the world struggling against
oppression, exploitation and imperialism to safeguard peace,
independence, democracy and socialism. Even the road is still
lying long ahead with the ups and downs at times, human
history will certainly lead to communism as shown by
Marxism-Leninism.
Celebrating the 190th birthday of
Karl Marx is an opportunity for us to promote research work
and persistently and creatively apply it in conformity with
the the concrete conditions of the Vietnamese revolution. On
this occasion, we are determined to further highlight the
sustainable values of Marxism-Leninism, supplement and develop
it in line with the practicalities of the country and the
epoch, resolutely fight against all reactionary and
opportunist ideological trends so as to protect the purity of
Marxism-Leninism and realise the socialist ideal through the
success of national renovation.
Marx will be always with us and
with the epoch. May everlasting vitality of Marxism remain
forever.
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