Is there something to the idea regarding the class background of, on the one hand, leading Communist...

Is there something to the idea regarding the class background of, on the one hand, leading Communist party members, and on the other hand, "constitutional nationalists", in china and vietnam?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh

Duiker is drawn to an "irresistible and persuasive" comparison with China. As in China, leading party cadres were "most likely to be intellectuals descended [like Ho Chi Minh] from rural scholar-gentry families" in the interior (the protectorates of Annam and Tonkin). Conversely, the pioneers of constitutional nationalism tended to be from the more "Westernised" coastal south (Saigon and surrounding French direct-rule Cochinchina) and to be from "commercial families without a traditional Confucian background".

the source seems to be * The Communist Road to Power in Vietnam (1982)* by Wiliam Duiker

Is this claim about the origins of these groups true, if so, is it just a coincidence? if not, what is the reason?

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