Its base areas were isolated, and its arms inconsequential. Its urban organization was decimated and haphazard, despite good relations with students and the intelligentsia. So, even though the communists planned to abandon reactionary and bourgeois allies, the most urgent goal of ICP was to make most allies as possible to occupy the Vietnam in power vacuum and establish an independent government. The Communist's plea for support was to persuade more ally as possible for nationalist coalition and use their poised power to overthrow any resistance in ICP's way to independent government.
To avoid the clash in nationalist coalition, the party balanced its social programs, particularly land reforms, against its much stronger desire to sustain a national United Front inclusive of all classes as long as the danger of foreign intervention existed. Also, it authorized local Vietminh groups to determine how to act at the critical moment during the revolution. Mass mobilization by means of fronts and Party recruitment and an elementary cultural revolution became the foundations of the Party's first strategy while in power. (Kolko,1985).
The reason why communists avoided land issues was because they felt militarily insecure since their ultimate social base was the peasantry. If they did not avoid land issue, it would have touched fundamental political, military, and economic policies, surely being a delicate issue the Party was going to confront. Another reason was that there was also a possibility that landlords would react to policies. In fact, throughout 1946-47, the party opposed any policies likely to drive landlords into the French camp, making it clear there was no place for "leftist" experiments. The final reason was because the tension between the class struggle and the United Front remained a constant dilemma for the party. (Ruane,2000).
If there were several issues confronting ICP that caused failures in communist policies, why did Vietnamese choose communism as their driving principle? There are number of reasons.