Surviving Capitalism (Not) : India Press describes how Nepali Maoist leader went from revolution to bourgeois path

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Sunday, July 7, 2013

India Press describes how Nepali Maoist leader went from revolution to bourgeois path

Click here to access article, a re-post of an article in The Hindu and commentary from Frontlines of Revolutionary Struggle.

Prachanda makes it appear that the turnabout was a political version of a religious experience, but the "born-again bourgeois" actually prepared this reversal and capitulation and betrayal over many years. Still, his sugary description of the lure is a near-textbook example of the peaceful road to integration into the bourgeois/feudal state machine and capitulation to India and China and the Western imperialist powers. -- Frontlines ed.

This piece provides an excellent contemporary illustration of how labels are still misused to lead people into subordination to a class system for the benefit of its leaders.