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> While Ho was a radical from relatively early on, he also admired the US greatly for a long time. Marx admired the speed of innovation and efficiency of capit
by cies 9y ago
> While Ho was a radical from relatively early on, he also admired the US greatly for a long time.
Marx admired the speed of innovation and efficiency of capitalism. :) But he also saw the downsides of the capitalist system for the workers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSQgCy_iIcc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSQgCy_iIcc
- vidarh 9y agoSure. The first chapter of the Communist Manifesto starts out basically praising capitalism into the skies for doing away with the worse systems before it and making efficiency gains that might finally make redistribution possible. I just wanted to emphasise that even though by Ho's time it was starting to become common for the left to paint the US as an enemy, and while Ho was at one point even an operative for the Komintern, he did not fit in that category - he long hoped for US support for Vietnamese independence because of his admiration for the apparent US views on colonialism for example.