In case anyone wants a reasonably exhaustive analysis of Vietnam's localized villager councils from a Gramscian perspective.
TL;DR is that there is good villager participation, it's not completely institutionalized currently, but also the villages and local governments operate under pretty horizontal/decentralized governance.
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I saw this meme a bit ago, and it got me thinking about how grassroots Vietnam's political structure was.