It is an effective way of organizing people. The problem is that when said people enjoy the fruits of imperialism and have zero interest in giving up even a sliver of comfort to improve other people’s lives, you just have a bunch of fascists, or Swedes.

And it’s rich that he’s quoting Ho Chi Minh because he thought the French communists were a bunch of assholes because they were nationalists who only wanted socialism for the west and had no interest in giving up Vietnam as a colony. He considered illiterate peasants to be more revolutionary and knowledgeable in theory than the French, and he was correct.