203RD ANNIVERSARY OF F. ENGENS' BIRTHDAY (November 28, 1820 - November 28, 2023)
Creatively applying Marxism-Leninism, including the brilliant ideas of F. Engels, our Party has successfully completed the task of national liberation, national unification, advancement to socialism and is currently leading the comprehensive renovation of the country.
Friedrich Engels was born on November 28, 1820 in the city of Barmen, Rhine Province, Kingdom of Prussia, into a family of textile mill owners. He was a political theorist, a German philosopher and scientist of the 19th century, who made great contributions to communism and the international workers' movement. Together with Karl Marx, he founded Marxism - a scientific and revolutionary doctrine of the working class and working people in the world; at the same time, he protected and developed Marxism, contributing to making Marxism always have scientific and revolutionary values.
Karl Marx (right) and F. Engels (left). Photo illustration from the Internet.
Since meeting Karl Marx in 1844, F. Engels became a close friend and comrade of Karl Marx, building the most touching and greatest friendship between the leaders of the working class and the working people. Inheriting the best ideological trends of mankind up to the 19th century (German philosophy, British political economy and French socialism) and summarizing the practices of their time, F. Engels and Karl Marx defended and developed materialist philosophy, created dialectical materialism and historical materialism, opened a fundamental turning point in philosophy, provided mankind with a new perspective, a sharp weapon to perceive and reform the world.
By discovering the law of surplus value, Marx discovered methods of capitalist exploitation, scientifically arguing for the inevitable destruction of capitalism and the inevitable victory of communism.
Besides, from analyzing and dissecting capitalism, Marx and Engels discovered the laws of its movement and development, on that basis, based on the development of future society, they pointed out that the social force capable of becoming the creator of a new society is the working class led by the Communist Party. The working class must conduct an arduous revolutionary struggle to overthrow capitalism. Class struggle is the driving force of the development of a class society. Therefore, Marxist socialism is scientific socialism, completely different from the utopian socialism in France before.
As a brilliant military thinker, F. Engels was also the one who laid the foundation for building and developing Marxist doctrine on the army, war, and protecting the achievements of the revolution.
However, with his humble nature, F. Engels never considered his theory as a perfect doctrine, finished and forced everyone to imitate and copy, but always demanded the development of theory through practical research and summarizing practice. He resolutely fought against anyone who disregarded the progress of science, disregarded the conditions and new social needs that arose. When the situation changed and practical life posed new problems, F. Engels courageously reconsidered even his own views. Even some of the statements in the "Communist Manifesto" were later acknowledged by F. Engels and Karl Marx: if rewritten, they would need to be supplemented and required communists "wherever and whenever, the application of those principles must depend on the historical circumstances of the time and therefore should not be too attached to the revolutionary measures set out at the end of Chapter II".
Creatively applying Marxism-Leninism, including the brilliant ideas of F. Engels, our Party founded and trained by President Ho Chi Minh has successfully completed the task of liberating the nation, unifying the Fatherland, leading the whole country to socialism and is currently leading the comprehensive renovation of the country. In which, renovation does not mean moving away from Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh's thought, but rather correctly perceiving, creatively applying and developing that doctrine and thought, firmly grasping its scientific and revolutionary nature, taking it as the ideological foundation and compass for revolutionary action, using that theory as an important basis for assessing the situation, with the spirit of looking straight at the truth, correctly assessing the truth, taking it as the starting point for planning the renovation policy.
Imbued with the ideology of Marxism-Leninism in general and of F. Engels on the path to socialism, our Party has creatively applied it to the specific conditions of Vietnam.
Imbued with the ideology of Marxism-Leninism in general and of F. Engels on the path to socialism, our Party has creatively applied it to the specific conditions of Vietnam. On that basis, the Party has proposed and gradually supplemented and developed the policy of comprehensive national renovation. The internal strength of the country and people has been mobilized for development goals, together with external resources that have been increasingly utilized and exploited effectively, ensuring the victory of the cause of renovation and construction of socialism of the Vietnamese people.
On August 5, 1895, the heart of the scientist, the most outstanding teacher of the proletariat, F. Engels, passed away forever, but the thoughts he left behind are still relevant and important; contributing to the development of humanity in general and the renovation of our country in particular.
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