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A Beacon of Hope shines from Nepal
(this was also written as a post on www.Revleft.com, as part of the ongoing debate within the revolutionary socialist movement about Nepal. It was actually largely in reply to the pessimistic comments of a Maoist, a RL member of the Revolutionary Communist Party in the US, which shows that even within the Maoist current opinion is divided. I intend to write an in depth, well researched full length article about Nepal some time in the future, that will go over the ground I briefly covered here and elsewhere in a much deeper way. Watch this space…)
I reject the idea that the CPN (M) is going in the direction of becoming a “capitalist” party. The Bolsheviks did not immediately implement socialism, and that was in a large country with a strong industrial working class (it was a minority, but it was still much larger and stronger than anything Nepal has), and much greater development of national capital. Lenin referred to what the Bolsheviks were implementing as “state capitalism”, not socialism (which makes the Cliffite use of the term even more ridiculous), does that make him “pro-capitalist” and the Bolsheviks a “capitalist party”?
