The leader of Nepal's largest communist party has been named the country's new prime minister
apnews.com
The leader of the Nepal’s largest communist party, Khadga Prasad Oli, has been named the Himalayan nation’s new prime minister following the collapse of a previous coalition government.

Good for them 👍👍👍!!!

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    Doesn't Nepal have a ton of nominally communist parties that are not really about communism?

    • SpookyGenderCommunist [they/them, she/her]
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      2 months ago

      This is true, yes. There was a Maoist insurgency which overthrew the monarch in 2006, which is very cool. What's not cool, is the fact that, instead of leading the coalition it had built, into forming a Socialist society, the Nepalese Maoists entered into an agreement to form a bourgeois parlimentary republic.

      As a result, There are a ton of complicated splits and mergers in the communist movement. And the newly established bourgeois republic exists in a constant state of legislative gridlock and shifting governing coalitions, that never actually accomplish much of anything.

      Like, it took ages for a series of constituent assemblies to draft a post-monarchy constitution, and key constitutional questions remain unanswered. The Nepali Supreme court regularly makes rulings that are like, "Yeah, we don't know"

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        I appreciate the help. Do you know if the dude who got elected seems to really, substantially be a communist or if the title is just an artifact of the relative chaos you describe?

        • SpookyGenderCommunist [they/them, she/her]
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          2 months ago

          That, I'm not sure of. The Nepalese Maoists seem to have fallen into a pretty serious state of revisionism.

          The ones who haven't, have attempted at various points to restart the insurgency against the federal government, with minimal success.