Ho Chi Minh

Date

1890–1969

Description

City of birth: Hoàng Trù
Country of birth: Vietnam
Field of activity: Politics — nationalism, military

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Quotes

‘After World War I, I made my living in Paris, now as a retoucher at a photographer’s, now as painter of “Chinese antiquities” (made in France!). I would distribute leaflets denouncing the crimes committed by the French colonialists in Viet Nam. At that time, I supported the October Revolution only instinctively, not yet grasping all its historic importance. I loved and admired Lenin because he was a great patriot who liberated his compatriots; until then, I had read none of his books. The reason for my joining the French Socialist Party was that these “ladies and gentlemen” — as I called my comrades at that moment — has shown their sympathy towards me, towards the struggle of the oppressed peoples. But I understood neither what was a party, a trade-union, nor what was socialism nor communism.’

Author

Ho Chi Minh

Speaker

Ho Chi Minh

Title of the publication

Selected Works of Ho Chi Min Vol. 4

Other contributors

Roland Ferguson and Christian Liebl, translators and mark-up

Publisher (or journal name with vol. and number)

Foreign Languages Publishing House

City of publication

Hanoi

Country of publication (modern nation-state equivalent)

Vietnam

Publication date

2011

Location [pp. or web]

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/ho-chi-minh/works/1960/04/x01.htm

Original language

English

Genre

Book

Context

This text was first published In the Soviet review ‘Problems of the East’ on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of V.I. Lenin’s birthday, April 1960.