Prachanda: Hoist the Revolutionary Flag on Mount Everest in the 21st Century

This interview was a major statement of the views of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and remains a valuable starting point for understanding their politics. It appeared in the CPN(M) journal The Worker #10, May 2006, on the Tenth Anniversary of the launching of the People’s War in Nepal. Prachanda is the chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). Thanks to Single Spark for making it available.

Preamble

The great Nepalese People’s War, having completed its ten years, has entered into the eleventh one. On this historic occasion, how have you been feeling as the main leader of this movement?

When I am called for presenting my feeling on the intensiveness of ten years of People’s War, pride and sense of responsibility makes me very much emotional. Certainly, there are quite a number of objective and subjective elements behind the intensiveness of Nepalese People’s War, but in our Party opinion, the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist outlook that determines its policy, plan and program based on ‘concrete analysis of concrete situation’ and ‘mass line’ is the main thing. Twentieth century witnessed great revolutions when revolutionaries had acted in line with concrete analysis of the concrete condition and mass line, the crux of Marxist science; the twentieth century also witnessed grave counter-revolutions, when the revolutionaries, deviating from that, got attached with subjectivism of right or left form. In the course of preparing for People’s War, our Party, while struggling even against the dogmato-left deviation which, in the name of struggling against right deviation had been developing gravely from within the communist movement had made concrete analysis of concrete situation and mass line the starting point. It is because of this that the Nepalese People’s War has acquired new momentum and intensiveness. My first and deepest feeling is that our ability to make the science of social revolution reachable to the masses by freeing it from subjective idealism is the reason behind the intensiveness and height of the Nepalese People’s War.

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Prachanda: Communism has revived

“Communism has revived itself from all the old experiences. New ideology, new strategy has been created by the Nepalese Maoists.”

– Prachanda

KATHMANDU (AFP) Sun May 4, 2008 8:22 am (PDT) The leader of Nepal’s Maoists, Prachanda, says the victory of his left-wing former rebels in last month’s landmark elections is a sign of the global resurgence of communism. The former schoolteacher, once branded a “terrorist” and wanted by Interpol, is now vying to be the first president of a republican Nepal, and he says his party’s success at the ballot box is rooted in its communist ideals.

“The revolutionary process is now happening in third world countries, and when it is completed in developing countries, a new wave of socialist revolution will be there in developed countries,” Prachanda said. “Here in Nepal we are trying our best to develop our ideology according to the changed situation,” the 54-year-old told reporters from AFP and an Italian news magazine. “Communists all over the world need to understand the new challenges, the new developments of the 21st century.”

Indian to Nepalese Maoists: don’t Get Dizzy with Success

‘Nepal Maoists must concentrate on continuing the class struggle’

by K. Srinivas Reddy (from The Hindu)

“It is possible only when they do not become part of government”
“Be wary of the possibility of coups, assassinations”
“They would be powerless to effect radical changes in Constitution”

HYDERABAD: In a shift from their earlier stand on the Nepalese developments, Indian Maoists maintain that the current situation in the neighbouring country provides immense possibilities for carrying forward the revolutionary programme by relying on the masses and carrying out the class struggle, while utilising the State.

However, such a scenario will be possible only when the Maoist leadership in Nepal does not become part of the government but concentrates on continuing the class struggle, says Azad, Maoist spokesman in India.

In a statement on Wednesday, the CPI (Maoist) Central Committee described the electoral victory of the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) as “a verdict against feudal monarchy, Indian expansionism and U.S. imperialism.” Cautioning them “not to become dizzy with success” and to be wary of the possibility of coups and assassinations, the committee said the real test would begin once the CPN took over the reins of power.