By Jonathan D. London (auth.)
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The tensions among the conclusions of the various authors makes for a lively volume and provides fertile ground for the concluding chapter, which takes stock of the arguments advanced in the various chapters and its implications for evolving understandings of politics in Vietnam. Having laid this groundwork, we can now turn to the individual chapters and dig deeper into power and politics in contemporary Vietnam. In the book’s concluding chapter we will return to these questions and raise additional questions about Vietnam’s politics moving forward.
Finally, the “organizational rectification” campaign (1952–56) that was implemented in most party organizations from provincial level down helped strengthen the coherence of the party, the fourth criterion according to Huntington. During this campaign, which was essentially a brutal purge, most members who came from “bad” class backgrounds were expelled to be replaced by poor peasants. Previously, party members 26 Tuong Vu who came from upper and middle classes and who made up as much as two-thirds of membership did not wholly support the party’s goal of building socialism.
It was the Maoist techniques of mass mobilization and class warfare imported and implemented under the close supervision of Chinese advisors that transformed the fragile communist party and regime into a cohesive 36 Tuong Vu organization and durable dictatorship. Another factor overlooked in the comparative literature is the state’s near-total control over social life, a common characteristic of communist systems that is critical for their persistence. This is the most important characteristic that distinguishes totalitarian from authoritarian regimes.
