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A new experiment

After the landslide victory of the CPN-Maoist and its emergence as the largest party in the Constituent Assembly, Nepal has become a centre of debate in the national and international political arena. However, the success of the revolutionaries in the CA is not only a process to end the feudalist era and to begin the republican era; it is also an experiment in  MLM ideology. The debates raised about the new model are natural. Because they are from different viewpoints and are reflections of class society.

The first stage of the revolution is the ending of the feudal order, and the beginning of the republican order. Politically, this task should have been done by the bourgeois parties. They were unable to end the feudal order, and so therefore the Proletarian class has taken this responsibility. With seriousness and efficiency, the CPN-Maoist has taken on this task and has prepared the way for a republic.

The CPN-M has advanced with flexibility, working with the parliamentary parties to fulfil this historic task. Many Revolutionary Communist around the world wonder whether the CPN-M is lost in the quagmire of parliament. The tactics of the CPN M can only be understood in a dialectical way. To defeat the bourgeois parties and maintain supremacy by giving leadership and hope to the world proletarian class are not easy and ordinary things. In Russia, after the revolution, the Bolsheviks did not win the CA elections, and since that time a lie has been spread that Communists cannot ‘compete’ and win elections. The land slide victory of the CPN Maoist in the Nepali CA elections has killed off this lie forever.

The big crisis of today is the crisis of ideology; this crisis causes obstacles in the tactical use of ideology in Communist approaches to the world of today. We must further develop our ideology to bypass this crisis. But, as Mao says, ideology neither “drops from the sky, nor comes out of the earth”, rather it develops through the “class struggle, struggle for production and scientific experiment.”

In the context of Nepal, one must be free from dogmatic and pragmatic views to understand the living process of the protection, use and development of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. Only in this way will the gates open to study and to fruitful debate by bringing the people back to the solid earth from the heavens of idealistic abstraction. When a new baby takes birth, dirt comes along with a new born. We should pick up the baby and leave the dirt. The birth of a new Nepal, as a new model, cannot be an exception. Therefore, this model should be watched critically but creatively. To be creative is the main aspect. When the revolution is sharp and someone thinks that it is in danger, he should help more and criticise less. Necessity is the mother of invention; the revolutionary necessity in Nepal has given birth to new inventions. Invention is itself a new experiment.  

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