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Kaysone Phomvihane Thought (Lao:ແນວຄິດ ໄກສອນ ພົມວິຫານ) is apolitical ideology that builds uponMarxism–Leninism andHo Chi Minh Thought with the political philosophy developed byKaysone Phomvihane, the first leader of theLao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP). Its contents were codified and developed by the LPRP with help from theVietnamese Communist Party, and it was first formalized by the LPRP at its10th National Congress, held in 2016.[1]
Kaysone Phomvihane Thought includes views on the basic issues of theLaotian Revolution, specifically the creative application and development of Marxism–Leninism to the material conditions of Laos as carried through peasants and workers' struggle againstcolonial,neocolonial andfeudal-monarchical forces. It strives to build a socialist society without first passing through acapitalist stage;[2] due to the underdevelopment of Laos, however, the LPRP, still under Phomvihane's direction, assumed astate capitalist line whereby the state and collective enterprises would play a major role in the economy, insisting that state capitalism,private ownership and individual economic activity would continue and be utilized by thepeople's democratic state for socialist construction.[3]