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Professor,
I don’t think there would be any negative surprise from the palace. The fate is monarchy sealed and if king’s recent graceful gestures is any indication, he will accept the good bye gracefully.
On your speculation about Maoist, I think you are absolutely accurate. A democratic party that still loves to use communist jargons is what Maoist party will be. In fact, I think it already is, particularly since the 12-points agreement with SPA in November 2005.
I was just arguing in one exclusive club (Nepal Democracy Google Group) about it. I am sharing it here.
I have challenged our Maophobic club members to show any anti-democratic reference in official Maoist documents since 2005.
(This is also partly my response to some of the queries of Mr. Truth-jyu. I will share more as we go, Mr. Truth-jyu)
Maoists Are Democrats. Get Rid of Maophobia !
From: DK
Date:
To: nepaldemocracy@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Political Mainstreaming ?
…, …, and friends,
I do not know if this is the place, time and way to say it, but I
think we, the liberal democrats, have been suffering from a false fear
about Maoist created by our own prejudice, city legends and second-
hand (mis)information about Maoists and what I call our REVERSE-
DOGMATISM against them.
Let me explain what kind of reverse-dogmatism I am talking about.
It's our untold strict CODE of using liberal democratic VOCABULARY in
political discourse.
Those who use these lLIBERAL DEMOCRATIC VOCABULARY, they are
DEMOCRATS. It does not matter what their conduct and tendency is.
Those who use COMMUNIST VOCABULARY, they are UN-DEMOCRATS.
It does not matter what their commitment and conduct is.
Here is a small homework, a challenge if you like:
Starting from the 12-points agreement of November 2005 to the
"Commitment Paper" (Election manifesto) of March 2008, which
resolution, proposal, compromise and idea Maoists have presented is
COMMUNIST in nature ?
Don't quote some obscure speech and tabloid gossips. Quote from their
official documents.
I am dying to learn how and how much idiot I could have been all along
to trust that liberal democracy (not the vocabulary liberal democracy
but the ESSENCE of it) is the political boundary of Maoist. I am in
the impression that the only thing COMMUNIST about Maoist is their
VOCABULARY, BRAND and FLAG.
Everything else, even the insurgency, could be any non-communist
things that happens around the world. There are non-communist
insurgency too, aren't there ?
So, I believe we, the democrats swearing liberal democracy, have
suffered unnecessarily from Maophobia.
I expect to be proved right within one term of Maoist regime. Let's
see.
DK