The Communist Party of Vietnam has never had the slogan "uproot the rich and powerful"

(LĐ online) - To sabotage the Communist Party of Vietnam , many organizations and individuals have used any means; including distorting and falsifying history; and blatantly slandering. Recently, when a number of intellectuals were expelled from the Party, many people and organizations shouted that the Communist Party of Vietnam despised intellectuals. They also said that in the past, the Indochinese Communist Party (now the Communist Party of Vietnam) had a slogan: "Dig up the roots of the rich and powerful."

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The above-mentioned distortions, slanders, and distortions of the truth are not unfamiliar to many people. However, it is worth mentioning that there are people who “follow the crowd”; among them, there are many people who are considered educated and knowledgeable. Many people, either gullible or “listening to rumors” and not checking the information, have unwittingly believed these arguments. Some people even blatantly support these distortions and distortions of the truth.

In fact, the Communist Party of Vietnam has never had the slogan "uproot the rich and powerful" but it was just a slogan put forward by a Party committee and implemented within the Party but was immediately corrected by the Central Executive Committee before it caused any unfortunate consequences.

In 1930, when the Communist Party of Vietnam was founded, it adopted the Brief Platform and Brief Strategy of the Party, which were the first platforms of the Communist Party of Vietnam and most clearly expressed Ho Chi Minh 's thoughts on great national unity and gathering intellectuals. The Brief Strategy of the Communist Party of Vietnam clearly stated: "The Party must make every effort to contact the petty bourgeoisie, intellectuals, middle peasants, youth, Tan Viet... to pull them into the proletarian class. As for the rich peasants, middle and small landlords and capitalists of Annam whose counter-revolutionary nature is not yet clear, we must take advantage of them and after a while make them stand neutral." (https://tennguoidepnhat.net/2012/08/26/sach-luoc-van-tat-cua-dang-1930/).

At the October 1930 Central Conference, the Communist Party of Vietnam held a Central Conference to elect Tran Phu as the Party's General Secretary and changed the Party's name to the Indochinese Communist Party. Along with the Party's name change, the Brief Platform and Brief Strategy were replaced by the October 1930 Political Platform.

In the years 1930 - 1931, in Nghe An and Ha Tinh, the Central Region Party Committee organized and launched the Nghe Tinh Soviet Movement but failed due to the white terror of the French Colonialists, causing heavy losses to the force. At that time, the Party leadership in Central Vietnam recognized that there might be traitors within the Party, and suspicion focused on intellectuals, rich people, landlords, and bullies. In 1931, the Central Region Party Committee issued a directive on the issue of Party cleansing. The directive read: "Eliminate the rich people, landlords, dig them up by the roots" (quoted from Party Documents (1998), complete works, National Political Publishing House, Hanoi, volume 3, p. 157). Realizing that this is an opinion and policy that if not promptly corrected and overcome will leave harmful consequences, affecting the strength of national unity, the Party Central Committee promptly corrected this overly leftist perception and affirmed: "The Central Party Committee, especially the Secretary, issued a directive to purify the Party, stating clearly each word: Eliminate the rich and powerful, dig up the roots, so where is the root to dig up, where is the root to dig up, is truly a vague idea, an arbitrary directive and a way of acting that is skewed towards the general" (quoted from Party Documents (1998), complete works, National Political Publishing House, Hanoi, volume 3, p. 157).

The Central Committee requested the Central Party Committee to have the correct perception and correct mistakes: "So after receiving this directive, the Central Party Committee must seriously review each locality, each department, each individual, which person is wrong, which department is wrong must be under the leadership of the Central Party Committee" (quoted from Party Documents (1998), complete works, National Political Publishing House, Hanoi, volume 3, page 157) to self-criticize and correct the above mistakes.

Thus, it is clear that the slogan "the rich, the landowners, uproot and destroy" has never actually been the policy of the Communist Party of Vietnam. It was only a slogan for internal purification within the Party and was implemented in the Central Region Party Committee, but the Central Committee promptly rectified it and the Central Region Party Committee promptly revoked this directive. This directive was not used again anywhere else.

Thus, the following issues can be concluded:

First, this slogan clearly existed, but it was not the policy of the Indochinese Communist Party at that time, but only the childish perception of the Central Region Party Committee.

Second, the slogan “uproot the rich and powerful” is not to purge these social classes, but rather an internal directive of the Central Region Party Committee, to purge the Party within the Party. In simple terms, it means to eliminate the above elements from the Party organizations of the Central Region Party Committee.

Third, after learning that the Central Committee of the Central Region had issued this directive, the Central Committee immediately requested a correction and the Central Committee of the Central Region withdrew this directive.

Fourth, this slogan was later no longer mentioned or used in any stage of the Party. If it was mentioned, it was only to remind of the mistakes and childishness of a time, of a regional committee.

95 years have passed since this erroneous slogan of a Party Committee (not the Party, the author emphasizes) was born, and many people are still confused and it is still being used by people with ill will to create confusion and sabotage. I think this truth must be widely disseminated within the Party and in the media.

Source: http://baolamdong.vn/chinh-tri/202501/dang-cong-san-viet-nam-chua-bao-gio-co-khau-hieu-tri-phu-dia-hao-dao-tan-goc-troc-tan-re-55e435c/