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Nepal Maoists' Proposal for the Radical Change

Prakash Bom - 4/11/2008

What could be the radical change and how could that be materialized even in socio-political and economic sense for one of the poorest nations of the world in the global economics of the 21st century? If the Communist Party of Nepal Maoist leaderships think for the radical change in terms of capturing the state for their one-party or totalitarian rule, then with due respect it would be a dream for building a castle in the sky even Maoists are cable of capturing the state. The capture might be successful in overthrowing suspended institution of the feudal monarchy but it can by no means transform the nation with cut and dry ideology that outright excludes the role of the major partner of the network of global-economics – India, USA and EU.



Nepal does not need to go that far to dispute the cut and dry ideology of Maoist that can radically change entire nation. For example, at the dawn of global economics the Berlin Wall fell apart with the entire blocks of communist superpower. China took u-tern and has become one of the economically powerful partners of the network of global-economics. There is no chance for a landlocked Nepal to transform its socio-political and economic backwardness independent of the network of global-economics. Maoists will not survive with that political strategies but will drag the nation to the status of a failed nation just as the institution of feudal monarchy did for centuries.



Nepal is a conglomeration of ethnic societies, which socio-familial-psyche is drowned under the dark cloud of feudal Hindu and feudal ethnic traditions of superstition that it depends on the worships of one hundred and eight animal sacrifices. Even the most modern Nepali with the degree of doctorate in science or supreme court judges or mainstream journalists or politicians among communists can be seen when they pass one of the temples of sacrifice such as Bhadrakali in Kathmandu every day on their way to work bowing down to it even from within their moving vehicles as if their entire life depends on these temples. I do not see Maoists are free of such psychosomatic illness of the traditional society of which firm believers particularly the upper caste Hindu and the superior members of ethnic groups think the rest of the mankind inferior to them. The disease is prominent all over the South Asian societies.



There is insincere doubt more than appreciations of the cooperation of the international communities, mainly of American and selectively of the members of EU among so called nationalists particularly royalist Hindu and communists, which basically springs from their false pride of nationalism that is tied up with the Hindu-ethnic tradition and religious values or superstitions. For example, when the president of Congress I India Mrs. Sonia Gandhi during the parliamentary monarchical rule came to visit Nepal she was prevented from entering into Pashupati temple of Kathmandu by the establishment because she was not born Hindu but a Caucasian Christian white from Italy. As a matter of fact, the upper caste Hindu, particularly Brahmins if traced genetically is the decedent of Caucasian race – over seventy percent of their genes will not be different from Mrs. Sonia Gandhi's.



Nepali nationalism that is adhesive to Hindu religious and ethnic traditional values and superstitions is the most arrogantly discriminative and repressively inappreciative of the grace of the rest of the world that is bestowing upon it. Of such regressive political elements are found in all political parties' leaderships and cadres, but it is most prominent in the mindset of the Hindu royalists and nationalist communists. They are the one who will most probably oppose the radical change. Basically, what means radical change for the Hindu royalists is to create their ideal Hindu state as portrayed in the epic of Ramayana and what means to nationalist communist is to create communist ideal state of one party totalitarian in exclusion. Both dreams have no place in the 21st century's global-economics.



But what people have been demanding prior to and after People's Movement II or 2006-April Uprising is the establishment of the institutions of the secular democracy under the federal democratic republic setup. It has been clear so far that why both Hindu royalists (feudal lords) and the nationalist communists (comrades) are opposing such radical change.



Basically, the republic setup is anti Hindu feudal royalists and the federalism is anti-totalitarian nationalist communists. Under the republic setup Hindu feudal royalists and feudal Unitarians will be isolated to be extinct. Under the federal democratic structure of the government the totalitarianism will be obsolete as the dysfunctional mechanism of the government. Basically, it will not fit in the institutions of the federal democratic republic.



The most fascinatingly the Nepali Maoists as hardliner communists have since the insurgency or their people's war proposed the federal structure for the radical change of the feudal unitary government system of Nepal. Federalism as the structural decentralization of the state power eliminates room for all form of dictatorship – leadership or one party or alliance of parties. It is the most competitive form of electoral government in which the aptitude of the representatives of the units of the government is determined by the ballots of the electorates of constituencies that form a unit of the government. Basically people can choose their leaders and people can oust their leaders as per their performance. The question here is that whether the Maoists will comply with the verdict of electorates (people) under the dynamics of the federalism. The answer is yet to come.



People's aspiration for the radical change is the restructuring of the state under the federal electoral system of the government so that they can have right to build their communities through the ballots, but not under the dictation of the feudal ruling elites or Maoist or YCL or nationalist communist comrades. This is one of the most challenging demands of people in 21st century Nepal that their most of the political party leaderships have difficulty to put up with. Whether socialist democrat, feudal royalist or communist nationalists all of them are born Unitarian control freaks. They have difficulty in trusting people; they are unwilling to take risk for such radical change; they are reluctant to ponder over for a new democracy culture; basically they are afraid of being creative and thoughful. It is time for people to claim the verdict. The political leaderships must follow people's consensus to receive the supports of the international communities.