Gender equality is also among the focal points for contemporary communist propaganda. For example, The Communist Review, the mouthpiece of the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP), claimed that Ho Chi Minh was the first Vietnamese thinker to promote gender equality. They quoted Ho Chi Minh in his writing: “If we don’t liberate women, we won’t liberate half of the human race.”

While it is true that Marxism has a strong feminist tradition, the definitive claim that Ho Chi Minh was the first to promote gender equality is very questionable. Regardless of this propaganda attempt, it is clear that the VCP wants to brand itself as a strong advocate for women’s rights and gender equality. The VCP went as far as saying that “women’s liberation” has been achieved since the triumph of the VCP in the North against the French in 1945.