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| Nepali leader says China to help fight Maoists |
| 2002-06-10 |
| Airstrip One noticed this one first... A senior leader of Nepal's ruling Nepali Congress party said on Sunday that China has promised to help the impoverished Himalayan nation fight Maoist rebels seeking to topple the constitutional monarchy. "They (the Chinese) have promised to provide all the possible help in the fight against the terrorists," Girija Prasad Koirala, president of the Nepali Congress, told reporters after a week-long visit to Beijing. His statement came as the state-run news agency, Rastria Samachar Samiti, reported troops had killed 17 Maoist guerrillas in weekend gun battles across Nepal which has been under a state of emergency since last November when rebels walked out of peace talks and launched a wave of bloody attacks. Koirala did not specify what type of assistance China had promised to give Nepal to help crush the Maoist rebels who draw their inspiration from Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong and are trying to set up a one-party communist republic. Political analysts say the Maoist rebels and China have nothing in common as Beijing is seen by the guerrillas as having deviated from Mao's teachings by adopting capitalist practices. Well, fry me for an egg and make me a sandwich! And I have to agree with Emmanuel Goldstein's suggestion that we not consider the Chinese Marxists anymore. We might consider them — Oh, Gawd! It sounds like 75,000 tedious undergraduate seminars! — post-Maxists. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 Oh, but I like "post-Marxist" best. It sounds like it means something. |
| Posted by: Fred 2002-06-11 08:43:44 |
| #1 Pseudo socialist oligarchs and running dog lackeys of Western capitalism is a probably more accurate descriptor. We could probably throw in a taunt or two about being Trotskyite counterrevolutionaries as well. |
| Posted by: Tom Roberts 2002-06-11 07:42:22 |