In Vietnam the political culture is somewhat complicated. The traditional adversarial relationships with the adjacent states have always helped to determine Vietnam’s political culture.
Vietnam had long-standing rifts with China and Cambodia. This small rift developed into open conflicts correspondingly in the years 1978 and 1979. These propose the need to view present-day relationships in historical view. The founding members of the Vietnamese Communist Party were the protesting elite of a colonized country. Most of them were attracted to Marxism- Leninism. They supported this not only for its social possibilities but also because of the Leninist reaction to colonial subjugation.
It was reported that Ho himself was more concerned with the problem of French imperialism. He always had given less importance to the class struggle. Vietnam’s political culture always got contribution from its agrarian economy.
The Vietnamese missed an urban industrial proletariat or labor to carry out their revolution and the main reason behind this was they were agricultural people. Because of these reasons the leadership inevitably passed into the hands of peasants and also scholar-official intellectuals.
Vietnam’s political culture has always added to its relative isolation from all the non-communist states. Eventually self- imposed political barriers took place with the West. It was the collective decision of Vietnam’s leaders. This view arose from several years of preoccupation and with the reunification and fight for independence. Over the period of time the situation slightly changed. But again Vietnam’s military victory over superior and strong military force that includes United States, France and also China has created some sort of arrogance. This arrogance of Vietnamese was intolerable to the other people of the rest of the world.
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