The nearly-500-page book puts together 29 articles and speeches by the leader from the preparation of documents of the Party's 13th National Congress.

It provides a broad overview on theory and a profound review on practical issues in socialism building in Vietnam, which has been conducted creatively by the Party on the basis of Marxism-Leninism, and President Ho Chi Minh’s ideology.

The cover of the book entitled “Several theoretical and practical issues on socialism and the path toward socialism in Vietnam” by Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.

Standing Vice Chairman of the Central Theory Council Ta Ngoc Tan said the selected articles and speeches give a definition of socialism and explain Vietnam’s selection of socialism, and the building of socialism in the country.

They highlight the significance of reform and the path towards socialism in Vietnam, and well as issues emerging during the cause, the official said.

President of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics and Chairman of the Council Nguyen Xuan Thang said Trong is not only the Party chief but also a great scientist and theorist of the Party.

Over the past nearly two years, the leader has written six books that hold high theoretical and practical values in many points, each of them touch upon theoretical and practical issues of the Vietnamese revolution.

Thang reiterated the Party General Secretary’s motto of creatively developing and perfecting theory on socialism building and protection in Vietnam based on theoretical review.

“The book gives a very convincing answer to the question that the Party General Secretary has repeatedly raised to Vietnamese political theorists: Is there Vietnamese revolutionary theory and one on Vietnamese socialism?,” he said. “The clear answer can be found in the book. We have Vietnamese socialism, of the Vietnamese people, by the Vietnamese people.”

Thang continued to say that the Party leader’s articles have affirmed the Party’s leadership as the decisive factor for successes and Vietnamese people as the source of strength and momentum.

According to the official, the book points out the nature, characteristics and roadmap on popular issues of Vietnamese socialism in the pillars of socialist-oriented market economy; rule-of-law socialist State of the people, by the people and for the people; and socialist democracy.

It serves as a manual for theory researchers, and provides very valuable guidelines for leaders and managers of all sectors and levels, he noted.

According to Director and Editor-in-Chief of the National Political Publishing House Pham Minh Tuan, the book consolidates readers’ confidence that socialism with its core, sustainable and good values pursued by the mankind is a society "truly for the people”.

In the society, economic development goes in tandem with social progress and justice; and the power of the political system is held by the people and for the people, he said.

Democracy – good nature of socialism

(BGO) - In the book "Some theoretical and practical issues about socialism and the path towards socialism in Vietnam", Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong continued to affirm and clarify that "Democracy is the nature of the socialist regime as well as the goal and the driving force of the cause of socialism building". This is one of the core arguments about the nature of socialist democracy and building a socialist democracy in our country today.

Spreading belief in aspiration for the path to socialism

(BGO) - The Party Central Committee’s Commission for Information and Education has just coordinated with a number of relevant agencies and the Su that (Truth) National Political Publishing House to select, publish and launch the book "Some theoretical and practical issues on socialism and the path to socialism in Vietnam - Domestic and international public opinion on Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong's article”.

Socialism in Vietnam: Superiority or difference?

Immediately after the debut of the book entitled “Some theoretical and practical issues on socialism and the path towards socialism in Vietnam” by Nguyen Phu Trong, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee, in cyberspace, some bloggers with addresses abroad have deliberately derided, saying that the arguments and contents in the book are outdated and lack scientific basis. 

Sourcce: VNA