Communist Party of Vietnam the people's standard of living. Classical Marxist texts still play a prominent role in the Communist Party's ideological development. "The Communist Manifesto", written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, is considered an "immortal work". According to the party, the real value of "The Communist Manifesto" is not that it can provide answers to present revolutionary problems, but the way it explains the gradual liberation of the working class and labourers. It functions as a basis for the most basic theoretical beliefs upheld by the party. According to Tô Huy Rứa, currently a member of the 11th Politburo: "By participating in
Manifesto of the Sixteen Manifesto of the Sixteen The Manifesto of the Sixteen (), or Proclamation of the Sixteen, was a document drafted in 1916 by eminent anarchists Peter Kropotkin and Jean Grave which advocated an Allied victory over Germany and the Central Powers during the First World War. At the outbreak of the war, Kropotkin and other anarchist supporters of the Allied cause advocated their position in the pages of the "Freedom" newspaper, provoking sharply critical responses. As the war continued, anarchists across Europe campaigned in anti-war movements and wrote denunciations of the war in pamphlets and statements, including one February 1916 statement