Their task was to revolutionize rural communities by ting an attitude of self-reliance and by helping to prepare and ize elections for local leaders, thereby releasing latent talent and energy inhibited by the existing structure of authority. In the larger scheme of Ngo Dinh Nhu's thought, this would idea beginning of a self-generating form of Viet namese democracy that, spreading from the would eventually over come the poisonous residue of French colonialism that was still strong among urban intellectuals. to the communist