"In order to build socialism, first and foremost, we need to have socialist people who understand socialist ideology and have socialist values." These are the immortal words of Ho Chi Minh, who helped guide Vietnam through decades of revolution against French colonialism, Japanese fascism, and American imperialism. These words reverberate today in the classrooms of Vietnamese high schools and colleges, where students are required to study a full curriculum of socialis...

Marxism-Leninism is a system of scientific opinions and theories which were built by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and defended and developed by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Marxism-Leninism was formed and developed by interpreting reality as well as building on preceding ideas. It provides the fundamental worldview and methodology of scientific awareness and revolutionary practice. It is a science that concerns the work of liberating the proletariat from all exploitative r...