North Vietnam Criticises Mao

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North Vietnam has issued a thinly-veiled rebuke to Communist China and Mao Tse-tung's turbulent Cultural Revolution, I+¢ appeared in the form of an editorial in the May issue of North Vietnam's leading theoretical journal "Hoc Tap", The editorial, a commentary on President Ho Chi Minh's 77th birthday, amounted to a lecture on the topic, "Leaders and the Masses," Without directly mentioning China, or Mr. Mao, the commentary made clear its target by branding the "deification of a leader" as an "erroneous tendency", "We respect and-love our leader (Mr. Ho), but we do not deify him", "Hoc Tap" said pointedly, The editorial said: "If a certain leader, ata certain time, regardless of the objective rules and the objective situation, acts in accordance with his subjective wishes, he will not be able to avoid all failing or falling into a situation in which every move will be in vain, like Don Quixote struggling against the windmill", Another comment with direct bearing on the chaos inside China, where the Red Guard was turned loose to tear down much of the existing Communist party structure, was: "A leader of the working Class does not separate the working class from its vanguard, the Communist party. To insure correct leadership and prevent and restrict errors, the Marxist-Leninist parties set forth the principle of collective leadership... If a leader commits errors, yet refuses to correct them and insistently maintains them, he cannot keep his leadership role forever,"