Originally a lecture given as part of a political dialogue between a delegation of the Left Party and the Communist Party of Vietnam held in November 2018 and facilitated by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung.

The author Wulf Gallert is an European policy spokesperson for the Left Party parliamentary group in the state of Saxony-Anhalt and Member of the Left Party’s International Commission (Vice President of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt).