After yesterday’s display, the protestors, more numerous than yesterday, have become radicalized to the point of raiding the houses of the ministers associated with the three big parties and set fire to them. Some of the buildings that have been torched:
- The parliament building
- Fomer PM Deuba’s residence, the school associated with his wife, a hotel owned by his son, his party’s (Congress) headquarters
- Former PM Dahal’s residence and his party’s (CPN MC) headquarters.
- PM Oli’s three houses
- President Paudel’s residence
- Home Minister Lekhak’s residence
- Vice president of CPN UML’s residence
- Finance Minister’s residence
- Multiple minor party buildings and police stations across the country
The communist parties don’t seem to be doing to hot. How’d Nepal end up like this? Do they actually practice Marxism-Leninism or Maoism or whatnot? Which is the better party?
I must confess I know very little about the politics of Nepal, basically all of it I’ve learned over the past day from the news mega.
The ML party of Nepal is a sham that doesn’t have any communist policies. The Maoists had the goal of establishing a people’s republic not a communist state. Then commenced a circlejerk between the three major parties: the ML party, the maoist party, and congress; the leaders played musical chair with public posts undermining political stability.
Expect the citizens to be against the name communist itself due to the bad name these idiots have given it.
Why do we as leftists always lose? It’s making me depressed
Nepal is a situation where the Maoist movement in Nepal snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
Instead of fulfilling the revolution, after overthrowing the monarchy, they opportunistically entered into a bourgeois parliamentary power sharing thing that has done fuck all to govern for 20 years