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>>14267719
Ho Chi Minh was never a liberal though... He despised Western Hypocrisy and he was already far left before he ever returned to Vietnam.

To answer your question, the majority of cases I've seen where major leaders of the past settled on an ideology came as a result of compromise through many factors.

Do they exist?

Capital Vol 1-3

Why is leftist theory so rich, while right wing "theory" is basically non existent?

Das Kapital
Process and Reality
Adventures of Ideas
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
A Brief History of Neoliberalism
Capitalist Realism
Manafacturing Consent
The Spirit of a Man Under Socialism
Anti-Oedipus
A Thousand Plateaus
The Birth of Biopolitics
The Order of Things
Archaeology of Knowledge
Discipline and Punish
Cosmopolitics
Psychopolitics
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Ecology of Freedom
The Origins of Totalitarianism
The Human Condition
The Genealogy of Morals
Mythologies
The Prison Notebooks
The Inhuman
History and Class Conciousness
Reform or Revolution
The Gift
The Principle of Hope
The Jargon of Authenticity
Aesthetic Theory
Negative Dialectics
Society of the Spectacle
Arcades Project
Illuminations
Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere:An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
The Theory of Communicative Action
Production of Space
Critique of Everyday Life

Why is leftist theory so rich, while right wing "theory" is basically non existent?

Das Kapital
Process and Reality
Adventures of Ideas
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
A Brief History of Neoliberalism
Capitalist Realism
Manafacturing Consent
The Spirit of a Man Under Socialism
Anti-Oedipus
A Thousand Plateaus
The Birth of Biopolitics
The Order of Things
Archaeology of Knowledge
Discipline and Punish
Cosmopolitics
Psychopolitics
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Ecology of Freedom
The Origins of Totalitarianism
The Human Condition
The Genealogy of Morals
Mythologies
The Prison Notebooks
The Inhuman
History and Class Conciousness
Reform or Revolution
The Gift
The Principle of Hope
The Jargon of Authenticity
Aesthetic Theory
Negative Dialectics
Society of the Spectacle
Arcades Project
Illuminations
Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere:An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
The Theory of Communicative Action
Production of Space
Critique of Everyday Life

Why is leftist theory so rich, while right wing "theory" is basically non existent?

Das Kapital
Process and Reality
Adventures of Ideas
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
A Brief History of Neoliberalism
Capitalist Realism
Manafacturing Consent
The Spirit of a Man Under Socialism
Anti-Oedipus
A Thousand Plateaus
The Birth of Biopolitics
The Order of Things
Archaeology of Knowledge
Discipline and Punish
Cosmopolitics
Psychopolitics
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Ecology of Freedom
The Origins of Totalitarianism
The Human Condition
The Genealogy of Morals
Mythologies
The Prison Notebooks
The Inhuman
History and Class Conciousness
Reform or Revolution
The Gift
The Principle of Hope
The Jargon of Authenticity
Aesthetic Theory
Negative Dialectics
Society of the Spectacle
Arcades Project
Illuminations
Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere:An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
The Theory of Communicative Action
Production of Space
Critique of Everyday Life

I want to become an intelligent socialism. What should I read?