Hanoi (VNA) - A national-level seminar entitled “V.I. Lenin’s Legacy:Theoretical and Practical Values” was organised on April 22 to mark his 150th birthday.

The event was jointly held by the Ho Chi Minh National Academyof Politics (HCMA), the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Informationand Education, Central Theoretical Council, and the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences.

In his opening remarks, Politburo Member and Head of the Committee’s Commission for Informationand Education Vo Van Thuong said that Lenin was a great thinker and leader ofthe working class and oppressed nations around the world.

For Vietnam, the content of his Preliminary Draft Theses on the Nationaland Colonial Questions created a fundamental turning point in the consciousness,thought, and political stance of late President Ho Chi Minh as he sought waysto save the country.

Despite great changes in the world, Lenin’s thoughts continue to lightthe way in the struggle for peace, national independence, democracy, people’swelfare, social progress, and justice all over the world, he emphasised.

Celebrating Lenin’s 150th birthday in the context ofglobalisation, extensive international integration, and Industry 4.0 affirms hismajor contribution to the revolutionary struggle for human progress, Thuong said. He pointed out issues in Marxism-Leninism that need to be supplemented and developedto make them conform to Vietnam’s industrialisation, modernisation, and global integration.

Nguyen Xuan Thang, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Director of the HCMA and Chairman of Central Theoretical Council, delivereda speech on the creative application of Marxism-Leninism in Vietnam’srevolution.

Ninety years after its formation, the Communist Party of Vietnam remainswell aware of the need to intensify the building of the Party and the politicalsystem in a strong and transparent manner, improve the leadership capacity and fightingstrength of the Party, enhance the close relationship between the Party and thepeople, and rely on the people to build the Party.

Regarding the application of Lenin’s thoughts related to the relationshipbetween politics and economics in the transition to socialism in Vietnam,Associate Professor and Dr Nguyen Chi Hieu from The Communist Review said that,along with Marxist theory, the Party has always applied Lenin’s thoughts to developthe theory of socialism and during the construction of realistic socialism in thecountry.

Lenin’s thoughts about the new-style Communist Party have been appliedcreatively, thus bringing about achievements in Party building and helpingconsolidate the role of the ruling Party, he added.

To mark Lenin’s 150th birthday, the Ministry of Informationand Communications has issued a commemorative set of stamps.

Lenin, who was born on April 22, 1870 and died on January 21, 1924,masterminded the Bolshevik takeover of Russia in 1917. He was the architect andleader of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and was also a greatteacher of workers worldwide./.