Ho Chi Minh Thought

Ho Chi Minh Thought is Vietnam’s official political ideology, combining Marxism–Leninism with ideas on national independence, socialism, and state-building associated with Ho Chi Minh.

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Marxism–Leninism: A political ideology combining Marxist theories of class and history with Leninist theories of revolution and party rule. It supplies the ideological framework that Ho Chi Minh Thought adapted to Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh: A Vietnamese revolutionary leader who founded the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and led its independence movement. His writings, leadership, and political practice are the source associated with this body of thought.
Democratic centralism: A principle of communist party organization combining internal discussion with binding decisions and centralized discipline. It describes how party organization translates ideological commitments into coordinated political action.
Constitution of Vietnam: Vietnam’s supreme legal document, establishing the state’s political system and fundamental institutions. Its text formally identifies Marxism–Leninism and Ho Chi Minh Thought as foundations of the state.
Vietnamese nationalism: A political movement and identity centered on Vietnamese national sovereignty and collective self-determination. National independence is the central priority that shaped the ideology’s use of Marxism–Leninism.
Indochinese Communist Party: A communist party founded in 1930 that organized revolutionary activity in French Indochina. The party gave organized form to the communist movement from which the ideology developed.
Mass line: A political method of gathering public experience, interpreting it through party theory, and returning it as policy and mobilization. It expresses the claimed relationship between party leadership and popular knowledge.
Political system of Vietnam: Vietnam’s system of government, in which the Communist Party of Vietnam holds the leading political role. The ideology legitimizes the party’s leadership and guides the system’s official political principles.
Socialism: A family of political and economic ideas advocating social or public control over productive resources. It is the society Ho Chi Minh Thought identifies as the goal after national liberation.
August Revolution: The 1945 uprising in Vietnam that ended Japanese-backed rule and established the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. It turned the independence movement into a state-building project under Ho Chi Minh’s leadership.