There is a very interesting piece of news today that says that the Maoists of Nepal are going to drop the Mao tag.
This comes just two months after Prachanda, the Maoist supremo, paid homage at Mao's mausoleum in Beijing.
This is very good news.
There are many Maoist insurgent groups in India as well. They should learn from this – and the fact that Maoism was abandoned in China way back in 1978.
The news mentions that the impetus came when party ideologue (and JNU alumnus) Dr Baburam Bhattarai attended the IMF-World Bank meet in Washington DC, where the international community "expressed concern" at his party's Maoist tag.
Indeed, why just express concern at the Maoist tag: why not express concern at the Communist tag as well.
In the real world, communism cannot work. Without several private property the world we live in cannot function. If all property was declared to be held in common, civilization would break down.
Read my old "Devil's Advocate" column from the ToI entitled "Ban Communism."
And for more on what is actually happening in Kathmandu, that too in Thamel, the main market, read Jug Suraiya's recent travelogue. He talks about how nightclubs there have found a new kind of entertainment to offer tourists: pretty girls dancing under showers!
In such a country neither Maoism nor Communism can work.
And that is good news on a bright Saturday morning.
PS: Serious students will find "The Decline And Fall of Gorbachev and the Soviet State" very interesting.
Maoists all over the world are either fools or conspirators. In China there are few Maoists left, and they are generally considered by public opinion to be weird.
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