Old activists never die, they just keep on dreaming

By Mauro Gia Samonte

Dec 18, 2015 11:52 pm

Ho Chi Minh likened the revolution to riding on a cart down a bumpy road. Many get bumped off, but a lot more than quite as many manage to hold on aboard up to the end.

The end, of course, here means success, as the defeat by the Viet Minh of America in Vietnam or by the People’s Liberation Army of the Kuomintang in China.

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