This assumes that a correct position could have been found amid the realities of a repressive and brutal Vietnamese Communism, a weak and brutal anti-Communist Saigon and an American war that could only pile up bodies.

I went through three forms of Communism - Russian, Chinese and Vietnamese.

Vietnamese Communism was not going to threaten Durham, N.C., as the men who recruited young Daniel doubtless assured him it was.

But signing the letter was brave mostly because, by acknowledging the repressive nature of Vietnamese Communism, Stone risked making some of his own journalism from the war look, in retrospect, less than astute.

Huynh kim Khánh (1982) Vietnamese Communism 1925-1945, London: Cornell University Press.

Foreigners in Vietnam always caution that in the still-secretive world of Vietnamese Communism today it is difficult to be certain of any trend.

Underneath, as if in mockery of Ho Chi Minh, the founder of Vietnamese Communism, an even bigger sign plugs a Japanese brand of cameras.

But what if the Baathists of Baghdad are not just evil, like many another government, but are vigorously on the march in ways that Vietnamese Communism never was?

It is considered as the "first truly Marxist organization in Indochina" and "the beginning of Vietnamese Communism".

Yet those who are honest with themselves cannot believe that present-day Vietnamese Communism has much of a future.