Peaceful evolution emerged in the 1920s of the 21st century as a major solution in the global anti-revolutionary strategy of the imperialism. After World War II, G. Kennan, an American political strategist, was best known as the author of the “Peaceful evolution” strategy to sabotage socialism.
Peaceful evolution is a silent but fierce war against internal targets in the fields of politics, economics, ideology, culture, arts, defence and security, deepening the contradiction, breaking the unity in ideology, will of the Communist party, hence making them become weak and self-evolve. Hostile forces carry out this strategy when their military attacks and overthrowing acts are no longer of use. They have to resort to a total assault which is called “victory without war” aiming to overpower and wiping out the existing regime.
As of Vietnam, the consistent goal of hostile forces in their peaceful evolution is to remove the leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam and socialist regime, make Vietnam follow the way to the capitalism and be dependent on the imperialism… To this end, they resort to all plots, sabotage in a comprehensive manner with delicate and sinister humbugs. Through peaceful evolution, they strike on the people’s awareness and thinking, make simple things become complicated, specific things become popular, easy-to-understand things become difficult-to-understand, changeling of concepts, carry out the plot “turn black into white”, aimed at dragging people who are limited to political awareness for their purposes . It’s not difficult to understand that in recent time overseas Vietnamese suffer from tricky propagandation of extreme anti-communist organizations and reactionary parties calling for “democracy”, “human rights” in Vietnam through demonstrations, meetings and in various websites. Those actions are always backed, incited and sponsored by bad-willed persons against Vietnam.
One of the sinister humbugs in the peaceful evolution used by hostile forces at present is to focus on the construction, finalization and implementation of law in Vietnam. This is considered the main attack direction of “peaceful evolution” because if successful, it will change the country’s political regime, economy, culture, society, and defence-security. As of the military, they demand for “nationalization of the military”, “legalization of all the organizations and operation of the military” which, in essence, is to remove the leadership mechanism of the Party over the military and depoliticalize the military.
More dangerously, hostile forces adjust their strategy, shifting from denying the leadership of the CPV to “acceptable” but make the party deteriorate, degrade, and untrusted by the people, hence losing its leadership role over the State and society. When the Party carry out its self-criticism and criticism, overcoming shortcomings in light of the Central Resolution 4 (XI tenure) on party building, they say that this is perfunctory and useless. Besides sabotages into ideology, viewpoints and guidelines of the Party, hostile forces strengthen their impact on international organizations in order to push up “democracy” in the political system, and in the internal affairs of the Party and in the leadership mechanism of Vietnam. They incite the disagreements in viewpoints over strategic decision, particularly the social development orientation of Vietnam in the new period; incite to separate people from the Party; create opponents in the Party and in the people; weaken the solidarity and unity and the mechanism of the Party leadership, the State management and the people’s mastery. Some overseas reactionary organizations contact and entice some political opportunist to take advantage of the State’s policies on democratic and administrative reform, freedom of belief and ideology to write and post articles to distort the State’s policy and the Party’s guidelines. Some even connect with opponents to establish reactionary parties in order to overthrow the ongoing regime. They carry out all-round sabotages to weaken the economy, cause social disorder, political disorientation, and defunctionalize the military and the police and lower Vietnam’s status in international arena.
Notably, taking advantage of the China’s illegal placement of the Haiyang Shiyou-981 oil rig deep within Vietnam’s continental shelf, some forces incite and entice people into illegal demonstration in the name of protesting China, causing social disorder, losses to FDI companies and damaging Vietnam’s image. They made use of the people’s patriotism, shifting from the protest against China to the protest against CPV, condemning the Trade Union of Vietnam as lacking care for workers, thereby calling for pluralism and the establishment of a so-called independent trade union, paving the way for a “color revolution” to change the ongoing political regime.
It has been proved through out the country’s history that national construction must be associated with defence, socialism construction must be associated with Fatherland socialist protection. In this stage, this is still of value. We do not exaggerate or overestimate the enemy but reality shows that we must never be loosed but stay vigilant.
Colonel Le Thanh Long
Logistics Academy