Posted by: Jawala May 11, 2006
Nepe and Ashu
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Nepe wrote: "If Prachanda, who has not read anything except "Collected works of Chairman Mao" and quotations from Marx, Lenin and Stalin, can change Nepal for good, we, with our state-of-art knowledge in law, economics, management, IT, science & technology, sure can change Nepal. Can't we ? " Nepeji, I think that is a very cheap analysis of the Maoist Movement. I do not think a political party has to be led by a Ph.D. holder in political science from Harvard to make it successful. And you contradict your own reasoning. In one hand you agree that Maoist are able to change Nepal for good and on the other hand you make fun of them like - they are bunch of uneducated people who do not understand the politics of world. You are saying something like they were successful only by chance. I am sorry sir but politics is science, a political party has to understand the socio – political need of that society to be successful – it does not happen by chance. Maoist became successful because they were able to understand the root cause of centuries of sufferings of Nepalese society Maoists were able to agitate the Nepalese society which was sleeping for centuries. They taught people of remote villages - what is their right as a citizen of the country. Unfortunately Nepali has to go through lots of suffering during this past decade or so but the bitter truth is probably that’s the way a society has to go through for a change. I think Maoists are evolving. They have admitted they will accept the democratic process. They understand international politics very well. They have always been able to keep reasonable relations with the EU and the UN. They were also real reason of the April Revolution. If you remember well, before 12- point understanding with Maoist there used to be hardly 500 people behind Girija and Madav Kumar in the street. That does not mean all people who were in street support Maoist cadres or supporters but they were able to understand the general sentiment of Nepali. Undeniably Maoists are the one who have already changed the face of Nepal and they are the one who will shape the future of Nepal
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