Basic Contents of Ho Chi Minh's Thought on Mass Mobilization Work

specific work, propose policies or adjust policies accordingly, "mobilize people to implement policies and guidelines". "Talking is the most important style today, "must honestly get involved in the work", cannot say one thing and do another, mouth mobilizes others but does not do or does the opposite. Uncle also severely criticized "the disease of empty talk, just sitting and writing orders" [16, p.73].

The opposite of the style of “talking with the mouth and doing with the hands” is the style of “only talking and writing orders”, which means talking without doing, and if doing, it is only doing it in a bureaucratic “desk” style. Ho Chi Minh emphasized the consequences and harms of this disease: “This way of working is very harmful”. It makes us not follow the movement closely, not understand the situation below, so most of our policies cannot be implemented thoroughly, affecting the interests of the people in general.

People who do mass mobilization must honestly "get involved" in the work, that is, work in a real way, must work together, fight together, and get involved in the daily lives of the masses to realize the purpose of mass mobilization work. If we only talk, just sit and write orders, how can we understand the people, how can we "mobilize" the people, how can the people understand and implement, how can the people have true freedom and happiness. Regarding the role of the masses according to Ho Chi Minh's thought in recent years, our Party has applied it correctly and the mass mobilization work of the entire political system has been carried out with many rich contents and forms. It is necessary to promote the role of the masses even more in the new situation, to achieve good results and success in different fields.

1.2.2. Basic contents of Ho Chi Minh's thought on mass mobilization work

One is to build and consolidate the development of the great national unity bloc.

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As soon as he won the victory, President Ho Chi Minh affirmed the great role of the great national unity bloc as an extremely important role. According to him: "To unite the whole people, it is necessary to have a large and very generous organization that can attract all organizations and individuals."

"The great national unity is the cause of the whole nation, of the whole political system, whose core organization and leadership are the Party organizations, carried out by many measures and forms, in which the Party's policies and the State's laws are of primary importance. Promoting the strength of the great national unity is first and foremost the responsibility of the Party because the Party is the core leadership, the ruling Party of the whole political system, the Party leads the whole Vietnamese nation. The Party's correct guidelines are the most important factor to arouse and promote the strength of the entire people. To innovate and rectify the Party, improve the Party's capacity and fighting strength so that the Party can unite, unify, and build a clean and strong Party in terms of politics, ideology, and organization, and at the same time train a contingent of cadres and Party members with sufficient qualities and abilities, closely attached to the people, working responsibly and having vital significance for the Party and the cause of great national unity. Imbued with the words of President Ho Chi Minh: "In front of the masses, we do not just write the word "communist" on our foreheads to be loved by them. "The masses only love those with character and morality" [11, p.16]. From there, promoting the strength of great national unity is not only the responsibility of the State, the State is the pillar of the political system, the organizer of the implementation of the Party's guidelines, but it is necessary to continue to build and perfect the socialist rule of law State, ensuring the principles that all State power belongs to the people; Officials and civil servants must truly be servants of the people. This is a very important factor, ensuring the close stability of the entire political system and the great national unity bloc.

Our Party has determined that building a great national unity bloc, widely gathering the strength of the entire people and promoting the material and spiritual strength to the fullest to realize revolutionary goals is not a temporary political trick, but a matter of long-term strategic significance in every revolutionary period. Although at times and in some places the great unity approach has not been properly and fully implemented, overall, throughout the stages of revolutionary leadership, our Party has constantly cared for building a great unity bloc, criticizing

Views that disregard front work and misjudge the role of the masses.

The historical practice of the Vietnamese revolution only shows that when the central government and the competent authorities are imbued with the viewpoint of determining the role and position of the people as historical subjects. The strength of the great national unity bloc is an endogenous factor of great significance in deciding the success or failure of the national revolution and attaching importance to building the great national unity bloc, the revolutionary cause, no matter how difficult, can be overcome and achieve glorious victory.

Great national unity in the general sense is the entity that connects classes, strata of population, religions and strata of people with both common interests and individual interests. In society, each class and stratum has different interests, but basically they are united in genuine national interests, with the same goal of a peaceful, independent, unified, democratic and prosperous Vietnam. On the other hand, besides common interests, each class has its own interests. Therefore, the Party's policies must ensure harmony between common interests and individual interests of each class and stratum, ensuring care for building the social foundation of the regime in society.

In the national democratic revolution, independence and national unification are the sacred and noble tasks of every Vietnamese person. Holding high the flag, the Party has promoted all the strengths of all classes, all strata, all ethnicities and religions in the National United Front to strive for the cause of national liberation of Vietnam. At the same time, the Party also attaches importance to setting out specific policies to gradually meet the requirements and aspirations of each different class and stratum. The Party and the State have set out many policies, directives or policies and legal systems to ensure the implementation of the requirements of democracy, equality and fairness in all aspects of society such as: politics, economy, culture, society for all classes, strata, solidarity of ethnicities, religions, including Vietnamese people living abroad. Therefore, the Party has been mobilizing the strength of the great national unity bloc, promoting the role of the Vietnam Fatherland Front in the renovation, industrialization and modernization of Vietnam.

Second , the responsibility of the Party and government in mass mobilization work.

The Party's mass mobilization work has always been a strategic issue to strengthen the relationship between the Party and the people. "Unity within the Party is the core, the solid foundation for building the great national unity bloc" [3, p.160]. In the new period of the revolution, the relationship between the Party and the people continues to be affirmed in many different Resolutions of the Party, that is: "innovating the Party's mass work, strengthening the relationship between the Party and the people".

Party organizations, cadres and Party members must do mass work well because this is the fundamental work of the Party, it is related to the work of Party building, building a State government of the people, by the people and for the people. “Cadres, Party members and union members must unite closely; must wholeheartedly serve the people, put the common interests of the people above their own interests; must be exemplary in national solidarity” [18, p.96]. From there, the Party also affirmed: Mass work is not only the responsibility of organizations but also the responsibility of all other organizations in the political system, closely coordinating with each other under the leadership of the Party. All Party members and State employees must do mass work according to their responsibilities and fulfill their tasks well. Only then can we gather all forces and unite the entire nation. The idea of underestimating mass mobilization work or leaving it entirely to the Front and mass organizations needs to be criticized and thoroughly overcome. The above guiding viewpoints on innovation in mass mobilization work are a summary of our country's revolutionary practice, having both theoretical and practical significance that need to be continued to be thoroughly applied in the new situation.

On the basis of the Party's orientation for mass mobilization work in the new period, it is necessary to identify and synchronously carry out the major tasks of mass mobilization work today. Specifically, to effectively carry out the building of great national unity, promote the role of the people as masters, promote industrialization and modernization of the country, and firmly protect the socialist Fatherland. Based on the political tasks of the Party and the State, based on the

Transforming social structure and classes to determine specific policies for each class and social stratum, creating new momentum to promote the revolutionary movement.

Party committees at all levels must always strengthen, improve and innovate the staff of cadres doing mass mobilization work, must always attach importance to leading and inspecting all levels of government regarding their responsibility to serve the people, reforming the State administration, overcoming all wrongdoings and violations of the people's right to mastery. Mass mobilization work plays a particularly important role in educating, organizing and mobilizing our people to overcome difficulties and challenges, creating rapid and steady progress to promote industrialization and modernization; well implementing the Party's guidelines, policies and strategies, ensuring the victory of the country's renovation.

In the relationship between the people and the Party, Ho Chi Minh believed that: the people are the masters and the people are the masters, then the Party, the Government, cadres, and Party members are the servants and do the work of the people. Democracy in Vietnamese society is expressed in all fields of politics, economics, culture, society... Democracy expressed in the political field is the most important, most prominent and is expressed in the activities of the State. Ho Chi Minh considered democracy expressed in ensuring human rights and civil rights. Democracy does not stop as a social institution of a country, but also has the meaning of expressing international relations and peace between nations. That is democracy, equality in all international organizations, and the principle of conduct in international relations.

Immediately after the founding of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh advocated the construction and promulgation of a new Constitution. The 1946 Constitution laid the first legal basis for the exercise of people's power. This is clearly shown in Chapter II of the 1946 Constitution, which includes 18 articles regulating citizens' rights and obligations. Article 6 clearly states: "All state agencies must rely on the people, closely connect with the people, listen to their opinions and be subject to their control. All state agency employees must be loyal to the people's democratic regime, obey the Constitution and the law, and wholeheartedly serve the people." Ho Chi Minh's consistent viewpoint meets the aspirations of the entire nation: independence for the nation,

democracy for the people, full meals and warm clothes for all Vietnamese people. Ho Chi Minh believed that the Party becoming the political nucleus of the whole society is the decisive factor to ensure the democratic nature of society. Democracy within the Party becomes the decisive factor to the level of democracy of the whole society, promoting all potentials and resources within the people to bring benefits to the people.

Third, propagate, mobilize and organize the masses to participate in the revolutionary cause.

When talking about the role and strength of the people, President Ho Chi Minh affirmed: "Revolution is the cause of the masses, not the cause of individual heroes" [21, p.197]. On October 15, 1949, he wrote the article "Mass Mobilization" published in the newspaper "Su That" No. 120. Up to now, although more than six decades have passed, that article still shines with Ho Chi Minh's consistent ideological views on mass mobilization work. The 7th Central Committee Conference (VIII term) once again affirmed the role of mass mobilization work "Innovating the Party's mass mobilization work, strengthening the relationship between the Party and the people" and decided to take October 15 every year as Mass Mobilization Day, considering this an opportunity to review and increase awareness and action to strengthen the relationship between the Party and the people.

From the early days of his activities, Ho Chi Minh taught cadres to deeply understand that: "Revolution is the cause of the masses". Therefore, when returning to China from the Soviet Union at the end of 1924, Ho Chi Minh tried every way to contact and bring our youth to Guangzhou to open classes to train the seeds of revolution. Among the first students of Ho Chi Minh at that time was comrade Tran Phu, who later became the General Secretary of our Party. During the time Ho Chi Minh went on a business trip to Kunming - Ho Khau, the time was very short, the work was a lot, but in the evening Ho Chi Minh still summoned everyone to lecture on revolutionary work and the duties of party members. When returning to Pac Bo, with better conditions than abroad, Ho Chi Minh opened many political and military training classes, attracting many of our cadres. Each class like that was usually opened for a week or ten days. Ho Chi Minh trained and coached his brothers, then returned them to the base and trained them in revolutionary practice. For Ho Chi Minh, a good seed could not be left alone.

It grows and dies by itself, but we have to make it sprout into hundreds of thousands of other seeds. The classroom at that time was also very simple, no tables or chairs. The brothers sat around the fire to warm themselves and listen to the conversation.

The stories Ho Chi Minh told were often real stories in daily life, or in the book History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union... Once, there were some brothers who discussed privately preparing to kill the general - this guy was very evil, later he killed Kim Dong - during a training session, Ho Chi Minh read to everyone the passage about leftism and personal assassination in the book History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. After reading, he explained: "Personal assassination is not a true revolutionary path. Especially when we have not yet taken power, the policy of personal assassination is a very wrong thing". These are often excuses for the imperialists to find ways to increase the suppression of the revolution. Our goal is to destroy the imperialists, the ruling feudalists, not just kill one person. Today we kill this person, tomorrow they will put another in power. The most correct policy of true revolutionaries is to know how to organize the masses into a unified, solid block, to fight to destroy their regime. The brothers sat looking at each other, not understanding how Ho Chi Minh knew the thoughts of some of them. But from that, the brothers realized a problem that had been unclear and confused between right and wrong before. Through such reality, Ho Chi Minh brought the light of Marxism-Leninism to our immature and naive minds, helping us take steady steps in revolutionary work. At that time, the 8th Central Conference had not yet met, but Ho Chi Minh had established national salvation associations: Farmers for National Salvation, Women for National Salvation. Ho Chi Minh explained: If we want to have a strong armed force, we must first have a strong propaganda army, a strong political army. Ho Chi Minh took a passage from the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and told us. When the February Revolution overthrew the Tsar and the Kerensky gang seized power, Lenin advocated that we must go and explain to the masses. Lenin emphasized: explain and explain. To explain, we must have a political army. Having said that,

Ho Chi Minh concluded: In our country today, if we want to fight the French and expel the Japanese, who will carry guns, who will voluntarily stand up and make a revolution? That is the majority of the masses. Therefore, we must propagate and mobilize the masses. Only then will the revolution be victorious. He suggested that we should educate the masses so that in a short time we can have a movement to fight the French and expel the Japanese like a rising tide in the localities.

In his work as well as in his teaching in training classes, Ho Chi Minh paid special attention to the way of propagandizing and mobilizing the masses. Ho Chi Minh often said: “We are very secretive. But that is a secret from the generals, the secret police, the French, the rulers, not a secret from the people” [9, p. 14]. Ho Chi Minh also required the masses to be used as a shield to protect and shelter the revolution. To do so, cadres must not do anything against the will of the masses or against local customs and practices. There are good customs that need to be preserved. There are also many bad customs and practices that need to be changed. But cadres must not change all at once, but must gradually mobilize the masses to awaken and reform themselves.

During the years when our country was still under the yoke of colonial imperialist invaders, the resistance war always encountered thousands of difficulties and challenges, but because our Party knew how to rely on the people's strength, it created a position of people's hearts and was wholeheartedly supported by the people. It was the people who did not spare their blood, bones, and property to protect the Party and shelter the revolution. The lesson about the great strength of the people and the close bond between the Party and the people had profound significance not only for the August Revolution of 1945 but also throughout the two resistance wars until the day of national reunification. Today, in the cause of building socialism, thoroughly grasping Uncle Ho's teachings, our Party once again strongly affirms the viewpoint of "Taking the people as the root". In that spirit, the Mass Mobilization work has truly contributed to consolidating and developing the relationship between the Party, the State and the people, bringing the country out of the economic crisis and continuing to develop the economy towards modernization, political stability, and maintaining national defense and security.

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