RE: Nepalese Communism and Other stuff

["D OC" <donaloc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was just reading Louis' posting from the marxism.com website. I thought
one or two things kind of rung a little suspect, then I followed up the
post: the section immediately after where Louis cut...

> Permanent revolution
> The Nepalese so-called "progressive" bourgeois based itself on different
> classes and casts to take power. As Trotsky had pointed out, those ruling
> classes that arrived late on the scene of history were to play no
> independent role. That was definitely the case with the Nepalese ruling
> class, which never had a real role in developing the country, and was thus
> unable to have an independent existence...and on and on...

Well, I guess it managed to keep up pretenses until I got to that stage and
Louis had the good taste to cut at the most important bit. Quite why these
people have to draft on the PR stuff into everything just to ruin it is
beyond me. The part I liked is next i.e. the 'only force that is...able to
carry through the tasks of the bourgeois democratic revolution in...Nepal is
the organised working class leading the peasants..." What folly, I guess
that the peasants in Nepal would have to wait for capitalism to finally get
around to giving them a revolutionary working class. These people couldn't
analyse their own breakfasts nevermind lead anything remotely revolutionary.

Sorry to have to say this about your post Louis. Just got to me.

Other news before I go, there's a good speech by Nelson Mandela in Ireland -
effectively calling George Bush and the USA the greatest threat to World
Peace. Someone with Irish Times access should post this for the rest. The
bit I hate is all these liberals and phony lefties trying to shake his hand
as if they wouldn't call him a terrorist if he wasn't now acceptable.

Finally, Donaldson has resigned the UUP Westminster Whip, apparently he
still thinks he can beat Trimble from within the party (??). He was joined
by two other UUP MPs, leaving the party split 50-50% in MPs in Westminster.
Right now there is the pro-Trimble UUP, the pro-Donaldson UUP, the DUP, the
United Unionists, the NIUP, the UKUP, the PUP (UVF), the (exiled) UDP (UFF),
the (mainstream) Loyalist Commission (UFF) and the Alliance. Not forgetting
the NI Labour Party and the NI Conservatives. The best thing is that almost
all of these groups pretty much hates each other and no more than about
three could work together (Donaldson, the DUP and the United Unionists) -
even that looks unlikely now.

On the Nationalist side, the SDLP is entering the zone of diminishing
returns (a recent by-election reversed a 2-1 SDLP majority to a Sinn Fein
lead). To those critics of the Peace Process Strategy, what conclusions can
we draw from Unionist political fractioning given the (potentially parallel)
outstanding analysis this list can provide on the reasons for the
development of Trotskyite splits/cults??

DOC.

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