Time Vietnam eliminated some slogans

THE Communist Party of Vietnam, the ruling party, is still wedded to economic slogans that are past their shelf-life and are contributing little to the prosperity of the people as they are driven by Soviet-style ideology.

Two economic slogans that are flawed and invalid are "Industrialisation and Modernisation" (IM, or cong nghiep hoa-hien dai hoa) and a "Socialist-Oriented Market Economy" (SOME, or kinh te thi truong dinh huong xa hoi chu nghia).

The economist Adam Fforde argues in his article, "Vietnam: Economic Strategy and Economic Reality", in the Journal of Current Southeast Asian A…