Is There a Fundamental Incompatibility Between the Institutionalization of Power and the Institutionalism of the Party?

Dung was never, he was not an anti leninist by any stretch. And he wanted very much to maintain the resiliency and integrity of the party. But whether at his his august eighteenth 19 80 speech, where he talked about the necessity of and distinguishing the responsibilities between the party and the government,. i had always thought, until really reading your book, that they just failed at separating the government and the party because of, you know, political events overtook it.