Prachanda proposes the Dengist path for Nepal, typical LLCO.org The Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) is a party that emerged out of the revisionist cesspool known as the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM). The party waged a people’s war for many years and seized power in much of Nepal. Very abruptly, the leadership called off …
Since Lenin, one mark that distinguished communists from revisionists is their respective orientations toward bourgeois democracy. Lenin understood that in capturing bourgeois power, one is captured by the bourgeoisie. That a revolutionary organization that abandons the construction of its own, new power in order to gain hegemony within bourgeois political structures ends up captured, transformed by those very structures it sought to capture. Revolutionary organizations do not capture bourgeois state power. Rather, bourgeois power captures and transforms revolutionary organizations. Once again, Lenin’s lessons have been demonstrated in Nepal.
It is hard to keep track of all the revisionism in Nepal. The so-called Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) is fertile grounds for just about every kind of revisionism known: First Worldism, Kautskyism, Liu Shaoqi-Dengism, Trotskyism and so on. However, recently, they’ve outdone themselves. In a recent article in The Red Star, “Communist” Party member, Krishna Bahadur Mahara, appointed as Minister of Information and Communication in the cabinet headed by Prachanda, praised Juche as “leading to socialism.” Also, “Kim Ill Sung has developed the Juchhe ideology as a unique contribution to the international communist movement.” Such a claim is a blatant rejection of Maoism as revolutionary science. Prachanda rejected revolutionary science a long time ago. More recently, the leadership in Nepal has moved to drop even their nominal Maoism. That a high level cadre in Prachanda’s cabinet would endorse Juche as a road to socialism is not surprising considering the rampant revisionism in their party.
According to a group of Dutch researchers writing in the journal of Science, 60 million people living near and around the Himalayan mountains will suffer a shortage of food in the coming decades. The shrinking glaciers will cause water shortages. Crops will dry up. By 2050, Indus, Ganges and Brahamaputra basins in South Asia could see their water supplies decline by as much as 19.6 percent. In addition, climate change could devastate river basins in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan and China.