BeatrixFan
Majesty , Royal Blogger, TRF Author
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Well,, BeatrixFan, you have completely ignored -or not known in the first place-all of the facts of history. Maoism was and is an unmitigated disaster for China. It shattered the economy and kept an immensely tallented people in a concrete body cast for decades. Its heirs, the current inept leadership, propoganda aside, has also proven monumentally inept in really dealing with a time bonb that may well explode with catastrophic results for the whole world. Ever heard of the "Great Leap Forward" and fifty million Chinese citizens starving to death. And how about the cultural revolution with its total disruption of everything, including of course, the economy. Then there is the minor fact of 50-100 MILLION deaths attributable to this madness, not to mention all the horror, torture, "re-education", prison, and the suffering and exile and all the rest of it for those still living. Talk to some of the Chinese who got out of China and then make the totally irresponsible statement lacking in understanding and compassion you have just made. Go read "Bones of the Master" if you want to get a feel of what it was to live in those times and what the Communists did to anybody who tried to live a life of religious devotion.
Nobody needs a dose of Maoism. That is nothing but blood, torture, prison, death and madness. And Nepal is a fragile and desperately poor country where a large portion of the population have been duped by those same fantasies and lies that have fooled so many. Maoism is a monstrous system that cannot be called an improvement on anything. The king was a man, a brutal man who was totally out of place but the situation in Nepal today, if history is any indication, is the beginning of a nightmare and human tragedy of appalling proportions. Go read a good history of the French Revolution and Louis XVI, another king, but a decent man, who was in way over his head in a situation he never understood nor could control.
I disagree. Any country that is used to absolute rule needs an absolute system. China was so used to an Imperial past that they needed one man making the decisions for them. Democracy just wouldn't work. And Nepal is very much the same, it needs some kind of absolutist rule for the transition at least. China was a fragile and poor country but Maoism transformed it into the world's greatest superpower. What China has today was built on Mao's extremist rule. Yes, there were murders, assassinations, freedom curtailments etc etc but surely that could just as easily have happened under the King? Certainly the curtailment of freedom was happening under Gyanendra. Remember, the world is watching Nepal in a way that it wasn't watching China and I'm sure that this brand of Maoism will be alot more peaceful.