Tu Lap (Ideology)

Tự Lập, (ツㄟ ラㄟ, 自立; "Self-Reliance"), also known as Trinhism or Self-Reliance Thought, is a political theory largely developed by Hoaian political leader Trịnh Hạc Đính. Tu Lap was developed from the 1930s and is the guiding political ideology of the Socialist Party of Dai Hoa.

Highly divergent from mainstream Collectivism, the central ideas of Tu Lap is that the peasant masses should be the main revolutionary force, and that only by becoming entirely self-reliant and powerful can a nation achieve true socialism. The working classes lead the revolution and reconstruction, which begins with mass agrarianism followed by state-led rural industrialisation. Tu Lap differs from mainstream collectivism as well with its strong focus on nationalism.

While Tu Lap was initially tolerated as a radical offshoot of collectivism, following the Hoa-Arshavati Split, Tu Lap was denounced as a revisionist and reactionary ideology by many collectivist parties around the world.

Etymology
Tu Lap comes from the Songese reading of the Yashiman 自立, which means self-reliance.

Industrial-Rural Divide
Nguyenism views the industrial-rural divide as a major division exploited by capitalism, identifying capitalism as involving industrial urban developed First World societies ruling over rural developing Third World societies. Nguyenism identifies peasant insurgencies in particular national contexts were part of a context of world revolution, in which Maoism Nguyenism the global countryside would overwhelm the global cities. Due to this imperialism by the capitalist urban First World towards the rural Third World, national liberation movements in the Third World have often been endorsed by Nguyenism.

Agrarian socialism
The focus of Nguyenism is on the agrarian countryside, rather than the industrial urban forces.

Although Nguyenism is critical of urban industrial capitalist powers, it views urban industrialization as a prerequisite to expand economic development and socialist reorganization to the countryside, with the goal being the achievement of rural industrialization that would abolish the distinction between town and countryside.

The Political Army
Nguyenism holds that a strong defence is necessary to attain self-sufficiency and defending socialism against internal and external threats. The military is a strong political force manned by and representing the masses.