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# Let Vietnam live!
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/let-vietnam-live/
- Published: 2012-11-05T10:11:09.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-23T01:17:52.000Z
- Description: "The simple issue around which all the history of the rest of the century will concentrate: are we in the privileged quarter of the world, going to continue to exploit the other three quarters?"John Berger in England for Oxford Vietnam Week (Jan. 25 – 31, 1967).
- Author: John Berger
- Tags: China, East & SE Asia, #Migrated, Conflict & security, Security in Asia-Pacific, Beyond enemy images: politics and the Other, Peacebuilding, Vietnam, conflict, us & the world, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 17:27, #ImagesUploaded, #appended-excerpt

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"The simple issue around which all the history of the rest of the century will concentrate: are we in the privileged quarter of the world, going to continue to exploit the other three quarters?"

*John Berger in England for Oxford Vietnam Week (Jan. 25 – 31, 1967).*