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Subject: Quote from Interview with comrade Prachanda
Nepali Dimag    6/28/2002 3:06:43 AM
Red Flag Flying on the Roof of the World Inside the Revolution in Nepal: Interview with Comrade Prachanda RW reporter Li Onesto interviews Comrade Prachanda, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (This text is reproduced from the Revolutionary Worker #1043, February 20, 2000, on the occasion of fifth anniversary of the People's War) Li Onesto, Revolutionary Worker: There are revolutionary people all over theworld who want to hear about the People's War in Nepal. So it would be of great interest if you could give a basic picture of the objective situation and what the material basis in Nepal is for initiating People's War. Why does the party think it is possible to wage protracted People's War, to organize the masses through armed struggle? Why is this the correct strategy given the situation in Nepal? And why does the party feel it is possible to win with this strategy? Comrade Prachanda: First of all, I want to explain this question in ideological terms. Nepal is a semi-feudal and semi-colonial country. And MLM (Marxism-Leninism-Maoism) says that in oppressed countries like this, semi-feudal and semi-colonial countries, in general, a revolutionary objective situation prevails. This is the ideological basis from where we started to study the concrete situation, because the main thing is ideological clarity. And through the course of class struggle, mass movements, mass struggle, and mainly the ideological struggle inside the communist movement, we came to the conclusion that a situation prevails for initiating the People's War. We see that Nepal is a small and poor country. More than 85 percent of the population lives in the rural areas, and the people are very poor-they are very oppressed. The feudal relations-the feudal forms of exploitation-are very severe in the rural areas. Industrial development is very poor, and the kinds of industrial bases that are there are all in the hands of a comprador bourgeois class-mainly the Indian expansionist bourgeoisie. Therefore, there are sharp class distinctions, and people have been struggling for reforms, for independence, and for the livelihood of the people, for a long time. There has been continuous mass struggle. But due to the lack of revolutionary leadership, due to revisionism in the communist movement, due to a crisis of leadership: every time when there has been mass struggle, this leadership has been able to confuse the masses, to make compromises with the ruling classes and to get some concessions for this revisionist group. I want to mention that in 1815 there was a big struggle with British India. Nepalese people fought heroically against British India but ultimately they did not succeed-they failed. This was armed struggle, this war with British India, and people participated in this war in different ways. Different kinds of guerrilla warfare were used. And, in that war, the British ruling class saw that the Nepalese people were very heroic and brave-and that they fought heroically against British India. For more than one year they fought and fought, and in many places they defeated the British army. Hundreds and hundreds of masses, including women and old men, all fought in that war. But the Nepalese ruling class, mainly the monarchy, the king, surrendered to India. There was a negotiation in Sugali, and they made a compromise. And after that, more Nepalese territory was taken by India. Before this, geographically, Nepal was more or less three times larger. But all this land was taken by India with the Sugali Treaty. From that very point Nepal became a semi-colonial country, and when the British left India, Nepal became a semi-colony of Indian expansionism. After that, there came the Rana government clique, and the great comrade Karl Marx called this Jang Bahadur Rana a British puppet and dog. People suffered very much from different kinds of oppression and exploitation, and from that point, Nepal changed to a semi-feudal country. In 1949 when the Nepalese Communist Party was established, it was a great and far-reaching historical event. That party was established when the great Chinese revolution had been won and socialism was developing in the USSR.
 
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NewGuy    RE:Quote from Interview with comrade Prachanda   6/28/2002 10:40:56 PM
"In 1949 when the Nepalese Communist Party was established, it was a great and far-reaching historical event. That party was established when the great Chinese revolution had been won and socialism was developing in the USSR." And look at much communism helped the USSR and the PRC...oops, I forgot, the USSR collasped, and China has one of the lowest GDP per capita in the world. BTW, do you Nepalese "Maoists" applaud or denounce the massacre of the students that took place in Tiananmen Square in 1989 by the Chinese government? NewGuy
 
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[email protected]    RE:Quote from Interview with comrade Prachanda   8/18/2002 5:43:26 AM
what is the future line?
 
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[email protected]    RE:Quote from Interview with comrade Prachanda   9/17/2002 3:17:05 PM
What Comrade Prachanda has mentioned above is true about Nepal. Histroy of Nepal is a fact and cannot be canged though we must remeber that histroy is alwas written by the winners so the Royal Nepalese Government , Great Britian and India ofcourse will always write and speak in their favour. The Maoist have definately made a correct analysis of Nepal and learning from history and following the scientific ideology of Marxism-Maoism-Leninism the communist party of Nepal and the proleteriat masses have launched Prachandapath ( the path of Prachanda ) in Nepal and so far have been successful in launching their campaign to establish a republic in Nepal. The media is controlled by the United States and Nepali government and the factual situation in Nepal is not only sensored but lies are told about the revolution in Nepal. However, the fact is that the communist Party of Nepal and their proleterian masses have taken and are taking a Great Leap Forward, and no power in the world can stop them. Krantibir
 
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brave nepali    RE:Quote from Interview with comrade Prachanda   9/18/2002 7:06:46 PM
well no wonder u d think that wutever he is saying is right. aneway, if u no history u should also no then that communist has never won anywhere in the world. and u r right only the winners write the history and so brave nepalis who are against any form of terrorism will write the history of this conflict too. in this civilized world nobody is going to accept ur targettted killing of grass level political workers, civilians and armymen as any kind of revolution for basic people but just a way to impose ur side of view with guns and weapons and legitimize somehitng that can never be legitimate.
 
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NewGuy    RE:Quote from Interview with comrade Prachanda   9/21/2002 3:43:20 PM
To Krantibir: Since your "Great Leap" apparently involves the massacare of thousands of innocent persons in Nepal by the criminal thugs who make up the "Maoist" forces, your "Great Leap" is a huge jump *backwards*, right back to the times of Stalin's murerous purges of millions of Russinas, and Mao's copying of the same. "and so far have been successful in launching their campaign to establish a republic in Nepal". What a joke! Look up in a dictionary what a "republic" is, and then exmplain how the formner USSR and the current PRC regimes that you seem so fond of fit into that definition. Yes, I know...you wont actually answer, for an answer would betray the un-truth of your post :-) NewGuy
 
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Jake    RE:Quote from Interview with comrade Prachanda   4/18/2005 12:19:31 AM
The massacre of Tiananmen Square was committed by the REVISIONISTS, the ENEMY of Maoists. Thier massacre was a demonstartion of the bloody brutal retun of capitalism. If you will look at the photos, most of the protestors were actually MAOISTS! They sang the Internationale, and held up the Red Book and pictures of Mao to the sky. I suggest you go back to history class. The Soviet Union collapsed because it was hijacked by the revisionists when Stalin died. Stalin made many terrible mistakes, but he was the last legitimate communist who led the Soviet Union.
 
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NewGuy    RE:Quote from Interview with comrade Prachanda   4/22/2005 9:40:19 PM
"Stalin made many terrible mistakes.." So ordering the murder of millions, and the brutal imprisonment of millions more you simply call a "mistake"? Thats a poor attempt to whitewash Stalins hands of the horrid mass of others blood he had stained them with, and history will not forget his crimes. NewGuy
 
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