Posted by: Namaste Kathmandu September 23, 2011
LIVE: Baburam's speech at New School, NY!
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There is no doubt that BRB tried his best to sell the "marxism" in the context of Nepal, especially someone talking about this in a region which has been crippled with "extreme capitalism". The questions raised were very relevant. One particular panel member S. Reddy (obviously from South india) was completely on BRB man! This is why the indians are so well ahead of we gorkhes. I don't know this Reddy personally but probably he must be a professor somewhere. At one point it feels as though, he's so awestruck to see someone from Nepal calling himself an academician and lecturing in NYC.

I feel this is absolutely premature for BRB to seek international attention from so early on. His focus should be local at this point. He knows that the whole world is going to come down on him. He still bears the stigma, responsible for killing so many innocent nepalese families. My question for BRB is "During all his time of the so called the revolution, peoples movement, marxist movement  there isn't a single example where an elite class/ruling class/politicians then and their families being invloved (by involved i mean killed). Why is it that only the poors were selectively killed and forced to join the movement to counteract the opposite force?" Everyone knows the ruling class then still continue to remain the same. I doubt BRBs and his marxist principle here. He sounded very confident and adamant about his ideologies but only time will tell. I still advise him to stay local and not seek international attention from this early on. He did struggle with his english at times but on the brighter side, so far in Nepal's history (i think) he's the only PM to have this good of a spoken english. What you guys say? 
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