Vietnam: What is the function of a socialist state? What is the nature of a socialist state?
Vietnam: What is the function of a socialist state?
Depending on the perspective of approach, the functions of the socialist state are divided into different functions.
- Based on the scope of impact of state power, state functions are divided into domestic functions and foreign functions.
- Based on the field of impact of state power, the functions of the socialist state are divided into political, economic, cultural, social,...
- Based on the nature of state power, state functions are divided into class functions (suppression) and social functions (organization and construction).
Due to the nature of the socialist state, the implementation of state functions is also different from previous states.
+ + For exploitative states, the state of the minority dominates the majority of working people, so the implementation of the repressive function plays a decisive role in maintaining the position of the class that holds the power to possess the main means of production of society.
+ In the socialist state, although it still has the function of repression, it is the apparatus organized by the working class and laboring people to suppress the exploiting class that has been overthrown. and opposing elements to protect revolutionary achievements, maintain political security, and create favorable conditions for socio-economic development. Although in the transition period, repression still exists as a necessity, but that is the reality of repression by the majority of working people against the exploiting minority. V.I.Lenin affirmed: “Any state means using violence; but the whole difference is whether to use violence against the exploited or against the exploiters". According to V.I.Lenin, although in the early stages of communism, “special agencies, The repressive apparatus, especially the "state", is still necessary, but it is already a transitional state, and is no longer a state in its true sense.
- V.I. Lenin believed that, after the proletariat gained power and established a dominant position for the majority of the working people, the important issue was not only suppressing the resistance of the exploiting class, What is most important is that the new government creates higher production productivity than the old social regime, thereby bringing a better life to the majority of working classes and strata. Therefore, the issue of economic management and construction is key and decisive. State socialism “is not only about violence against the exploiters, nor is it primarily about violence. The economic basis of that revolutionary violence, the guarantee of its vitality and victory, is the proletariat's ability to introduce and implement a higher type of labor organization than capitalism. That is the essence of the problem. That is the source of strength and the condition that ensures the complete and inevitable victory of communism."
- Reforming the old society and successfully building a new society is the main content and ultimate goal of the socialist state. It was a great career, but at the same time extremely difficult and complex work. It requires that the socialist state must be an apparatus with sufficient power to suppress enemies and anti-revolutionary elements, and that state must be an organization with sufficient capacity to manage and build a socialist society, in which the organization of economic management is the most important, difficult and complex.
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Vietnam: What is the nature of a socialist state?
Compared to other types of state in history, the socialist state is a new type of state, with a different nature from the nature of exploitative state types in history. The inherent superiority of the socialist state is expressed in the following aspects:
- Politically, the socialist state has the nature of the working class, a class whose interests are consistent with the common interests of the working people. In a socialist society, the proletariat is the force that holds the dominant political position.
However, the domination of the proletariat is qualitatively different from the domination of the previous exploiting classes. The domination of the exploiting class is the domination of the minority over all classes and strata of working people in society to protect and maintain their status. The political domination of the proletariat is the domination of the majority over the exploiting class minority in order to liberate its own class and liberate all other classes of working people in society. Therefore, the socialist state represents the common will of the working people.
- Regarding economics, the nature of the socialist state is determined by the economic basis of socialist society, which is the social ownership regime of the main means of production.
Therefore, exploitative production relations no longer exist. If all other exploitative states in history are states in their own right, that is, the apparatus of a minority of exploiters to oppress the majority of oppressed and exploited working people, The socialist state is both a political-administrative apparatus, a coercive agency, and a socio-economic management organization of the working people; it is no longer a state in the true meaning, but only a "half-state". Taking care of the interests of the majority of working people has become the top goal of the socialist state.
- Regarding culture and society, the socialist state is built on the spiritual foundation of the theory of Marxism-Leninism and the advanced and progressive cultural values of humanity, and at the same time carries the the nation's own identity. The distinction between classes and strata is gradually narrowed, and classes and strata are equal in accessing resources and opportunities for development.
What is the political regime of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam?
Article 2 of the 2013 Constitution stipulates the political regime of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam as follows:
- The State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a socialist state ruled by law and of the People, by the People and for the People.
- The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is the country where the People are the masters; all the state power belongs to the People and is based on the alliance of the working class, the peasantry and the intelligentsia.
- The state power is unified and delegated to state agencies which coordinate with and control one another in the exercise of the legislative, executive and judicial powers.
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