Nepal's New Maoist Prime Minister
Nepal has just elected (sort of) a new prime minister, Baburam Bhattarai, a Maoist party ideologue.
Incidents involving the Communist Party of Nepal, Maoist, in 2011:
February 27: The UCPN-Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda warned that all the factories, industries and hotels across the country will be turned into barracks to ensure the success of the people's revolt the party plans to wage. Prachanda said that Maoists will not tolerate any attempts to halt efforts aimed at ensuring peace and constitution as well as bringing about a radical transformation in the country. He also called upon all the factory workers affiliated to the Maoist party to make "final preparations" for people's revolt with all their power and might. He further said that those who believe that the Maoists will not wage any people's revolt and think that it is just a bluff will soon be getting a rude shock. As reported earlier, in a similar warning he had said that all "the universities would be converted into barracks" if the regressive elements intensified their conspiracies.
How much better the world would be if this nightmare ideology would just die already. Will it ever?
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Oct '10
Re: Nepal's New Maoist Prime Minister
So he's in a coalition government? Why on earth would any coalition government choose a Marxist ideologue as its prime minister? I assume he isn't going to pull off a real Maoist revolution, given his failure to do so after staging a civil war, toppling a monarchy in 2008, and still having his Maoist government collapse in 2009.
This reminds me of the political volatility that so plagued Europe in the aftermath of World War I.
Re: Nepal's New Maoist Prime Minister
I'm not an expert on Nepalese politics and don't want anyone to think I am, but from what I understand, Comrade Bhattarai is considered a more hopeful prospect than the rest of the sordid lot--he's the one who seems recently to have killed the fewest people. And that's not a hopeful statement.
Jan '11
Re: Nepal's New Maoist Prime Minister
Nothing lives so long as a perverse idea.
Dec '10
Re: Nepal's New Maoist Prime Minister
I don't consider communism to be a mneme (or meme). Its indiscriminate spread and ensuing destruction has more in common with a virus or cancer.
Unfortunately, I see two stories down from this one that "Cure for Diabetes or Cancer? Don't Count On It.".
Dec '10
Re: Nepal's New Maoist Prime Minister
"--he's the one who seems recently to have killed the fewest people."
That is one low bar.
May '10
Re: Nepal's New Maoist Prime Minister
How long till China decides to "help" its needy neighbour, and turn it into a client state such as Tibet. In between the Maoist fanatics, and the patricide by the Royal family, the poor have little hope left.
Feb '11
Re: Nepal's New Maoist Prime Minister
From what I understand from Nepalese friends, Bhattarai has close personal ties with the former head of the monarchist party and members of his family. They're from the same village. That may help explain at least part of it.