I urge you to polish your knowlege a bit on what prachanda path is about. if you have read some of their recent rhetorics, they have clearly stated that Mao Zedong's People's Republic and cooperative party theory cannot fulfill the needs of today's world. it cannot address today's political awareness appropriately. they are into what they call “competitive party theory” which can assure their success in 21st century. at recent times, they have reiterated that they are up for multiparty democracy. coz they feel that can only assure the longevity of their existence. yes! international support is necessary. that is why they want to mutate from conventional communism. as you say china is a prime example. had they not promoted capitalism, their economic prosperity at status quo would have been only a distant dream. nepal do have resources, all they need is to materialize them and make them sellable. don't be carried away with incidents where teachers, women and children have been killed. as much as i condemn those acts, i take them as minor discrepancies that come along the way of a revolution. it should be remembered that maoists have always remain as underdogs. everyone tend to look upon underdogs with derogatory approach. so when they do one mistake, it gets magnified like hell. do you have any idea, how many innocents have been killed by NA itself in the last 10 years? do you know how many sufferers were brutally murdered during panchayat era. i am not pointing out another wrong doing to justify a wrong but mishaps do happen during revolutions. LooTe