Revolutionary Mortality

Ho Chi Minh describes revolutionary mortality as devoting one’s life to struggling for the Party and the revolution. This first line catches my attention because Minh uses the word “struggling” to described someone’s life and how they work for their Party. This means that the life of a people participating in a revolution is a life of struggle and a life of hard times with the hopes of a revolution at the end of your struggles. This is someone that would shade me away from revolutionary mortality because it seems to give little hope for a proper outcome. Minh also says you have to put the good of the Party above your own interests which means you are dedicating everything you do for the good lf the party. The life seems empty in a way because you aren’t fulfilling anything for yourself and your own individual actions aren’t to be made a point unless they are for the good of the party. Minh says you have to use self-criticism to heighten your own standards and the good of the party standards. To me, there seem to be few options for someone involved in the revolutionary mortality under Minh. I think that is the way Minh wants it, everyone ignoring their own ideals to help the Party.