A Transition in the Awareness of Democracy in Vietnam in the Late Twentieth Century

Abstract

Democracy is the result of the struggle for social progress, class struggle, national liberation and human liberation. In each historical epoch, the working people had to go through struggles and sacrifices, the results of the struggle were marked by new contents of democratic thought, with profound social and class characteristics. That transition process in each country is completely different and Vietnam is no exception. The shift in the perception of democracy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was shown from monarchy to bourgeois democracy and from bourgeois democracy to Marxist-Leninist democracy. The purpose of the transition is to promote the spirit of self-reliance and national liberation of Vietnam.