The Cần Lao Party's leader Ngô Đình Nhu created this ideology to oppose the ideology of the Vietnamese Communist Party. The Person Dignity Theory proposed a "third way" between capitalism and communism, both of which it accused of being strictly materialist. Both capitalism and communism assume that people are only instruments of production, while the Person Dignity Theory promoted a spiritual and physical person, with consequential changes for supply and demand based not on the individual but on the community.[2]
The Personal Dignity Theory is based on "Three Theories":
The Person Dignity Theory emphasized the well-being of the community. The ideal community, as the theory postulated, was based on family, society, nation, humanity and nature. The spiritual was believed to strengthen the community and move further towards "truth, compassion, unity". To realize the Person Dignity Theory, a political party was needed to promote the ideology, as well as achieving social justice and technological modernization which the theory saw as important.
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