Communism 2.0
May 7th, 2008 by SocProf and tagged Nepal, PoliticsVia the BBC,
“The leader of Nepal’s Maoists has said that his party’s recent election victory is a sign of the global resurgence of communism. But Pushpa Kamal Dahal, also known as Prachanda, stressed his party believed in retaining multi-party competition. Prachanda has made it clear that he wants to become the first president of a Nepalese republic. The Maoists won twice as many seats as their nearest rivals in last month’s polls for a constitutional assembly.”
Prachanda hopes to start a revolutionary chain reaction in developing countries (well, the Mercosur countries certainly have taken a left turn which I blogged about here a while back). This is also communism 2.0 in that Prachanda believes multi-partyism is an acceptable political format and that competition in political ideas is healthy for society (that’s certainly new… can he tell that to Kim Jong-il?) and that it was the lack thereof that had been fatal to previously communist countries. More than that, these communists believe in private foreign investments (so, how are they communist, again?). Anyhoo, at least, we know they’ll abolish the monarchy once the Assembly is seated. It will be interesting to see how things turn out.
Communism 2.0. Hmm… should be interesting.
