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...French colonial rulers from the later 19th century through 1940 that Vietnamese nationalism and Vietnamese communism largely coalesced during the struggle against first France, then Japan, and then France again. As a result of such coalescence, such fusion, the leadership of the Vietnamese revolution for independence and nationhood had largely fallen under the control of long indigenous Vietnamese Communists by the mid and late 1940s. Ho Chi Minh was the George Washington of Vietnam, whatever we may think of his politics, though like George Washington he had to struggle against "loyalist" pro-French elements within the bureaucracy, army and intelligentsia...
...community fulfilling its tradition. U.S. society exalts conscience and individual freedom, Israeli society adherence to a communal code. Alone, either set of ideals may become narrow or destructive; exchanged, they could become more balanced and productive for both communities. Since Judaism is an inextricable mixture of religion and nationhood, a certain ambiguity about Jewish identity will always remain and may ultimately be creative. "We cannot live on borrowed courage," warns Los Angeles Rabbi Leonard Beerman, counseling U.S. Jews to define their identities out of their own roots. But shared courage could well add up to redoubled strength...
...Indians, not as people making a narrow self-serving demand to be included in this system and to participate as equals in the exploitation of resources of the Third World. They began to look at us as Third World people ourselves, engaged in a struggle not just for nationhood, but against American imperialism...
...WHOM HE VISITED IN PEKING IN 1965: "For Mao, only China counts. His first problem is to give every Chinese enough to eat and, second, to create a sense of nationhood among 800 million Chinese. To understand Mao's attitude, you must know wherein his genius lies. Whereas Marx and Lenin placed their faith in the working class as the revolutionary force, Mao put his in the peasantry. But in the Cultural Revolution, Mao employed an unknown force, one never used before as such in a revolution: youth...
...recent years, a seemingly endless round of Arab military coups has produced major changes in the power structure at the top level of many countries. But the social structure has remained virtually intact. It is a conservative structure, rooted in the family and the tribe. Nationhood is a more recent concept and still an uncomfortable one; the Arab had long been accustomed to thinking smaller (the family) or larger (the Arab world, a supranational notion...