Thanks...at least you arrived to some degree of decency...appreciate it! Now let's get to the topic. the line that you quoted is what prachandapath is about.. have you read them? ... do you follow what they talk about? you may be aware of what happened in china through your history class that you took (thanks to the US school you went to) but do you follow what's actually going on in Nepal and what actually maoists are up to? drawing a parallelism between communist revolution in China and maoists revolution in nepal is could well be a gross mistake. let me tell you first thing...maoists are YET to be tested in nepalese soil so any comment for or against them may be judgmental and totally against their philosophy at least at this point of time when we all are craving for a long lasting peace. However, what we can do is listen to them and try to analyse what they MAY or may NOT do. Nepal has a difficult geography as we all know and we are sort of resources. YES we have hydrpower potential that can take us to heavean and our already plummetted economy can get a chance for a permanent respite but then we need to sell our production to our neighbors if, at all, we are thinking of any sort of economic prosperity. International support (especially from US, EU and India) is again absolutely critical. amidst this scenario, maoists canNOT and i am sure they will NOT impose conventional marxism or leninism in nepal. That is exactly why the need of a competitive party theory. why would maoists themselves and their communist policies which look good in paper but fail miserably in practice, be the reason for their own downfall? china can afford to be a closed market coz they are huge country, have powerful militia, and are sound in technology. Nepal on the other hand have none... China have cheap labor. they can go for mass production and hence can impose reduced unit cost for their production and YET can make a lucrative profit and therefore prosper economically. maoists know that only thing that can sustain them is by practicing a democratic approach. only that will ensure the longevity of their existence. LooTe. P.S. sorry for diverting off the topic...i will post another one in a while for celibacy issue.