THE IMPORTANCE OF HO CHI MINH THOUGHTS TO THE CURRENT ERA'S PATRIOTISM MOVEMENT

Abstract

Emulation was viewed by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Lenin as a fundamental human need resulting from life itself. Competition unavoidably emerges because members of society are constantly in contact with one another. Competition will be replaced in a socialist society by competition among the workers involved in the manufacturing process. Lenin declared: "Our task now, when the socialist government is in power, is to organize emulation" following the success of the Russian October Revolution. The revolutionary forerunners, however, did not speak of rivalry in the area of material production until after the proletariat had gained control. The idea of patriotic emulation (patriotic emulation) is a summary of numerous new ideas and arguments that Ho Chi Minh added and imaginatively expanded. The meaning of Ho Chi Minh's ideology in relation to the patriotic emulation movement in the current moment in Vietnam is analyzed and clarified in this article, which also highlights theoretical questions about Ho Chi Minh's ideology on the subject.