After yesterday’s display, the protestors, more numerous than yesterday, have become radicalized to the point of raiding the houses of the ministers associated with the three big parties and set fire to them. Some of the buildings that have been torched:

  • The parliament building
  • Fomer PM Deuba’s residence, the school associated with his wife, a hotel owned by his son, his party’s (Congress) headquarters
  • Former PM Dahal’s residence and his party’s (CPN MC) headquarters.
  • PM Oli’s three houses
  • President Paudel’s residence
  • Home Minister Lekhak’s residence
  • Vice president of CPN UML’s residence
  • Finance Minister’s residence
  • Multiple minor party buildings and police stations across the country
  • oscardejarjayes [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    22·
    9 days ago

    The communist parties don’t seem to be doing to hot. How’d Nepal end up like this? Do they actually practice Marxism-Leninism or Maoism or whatnot? Which is the better party?

    I must confess I know very little about the politics of Nepal, basically all of it I’ve learned over the past day from the news mega.

    • Kopfrkingl [comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      50·
      8 days ago

      The ML party of Nepal is a sham that doesn’t have any communist policies. The Maoists had the goal of establishing a people’s republic not a communist state. Then commenced a circlejerk between the three major parties: the ML party, the maoist party, and congress; the leaders played musical chair with public posts undermining political stability.

      Expect the citizens to be against the name communist itself due to the bad name these idiots have given it.

        • SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.mlEnglish
          4·
          8 days ago

          Nepal is a situation where the Maoist movement in Nepal snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

          Instead of fulfilling the revolution, after overthrowing the monarchy, they opportunistically entered into a bourgeois parliamentary power sharing thing that has done fuck all to govern for 20 years

      • jack [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        12·
        8 days ago

        Color revolutions only happen when there’s an actual revolution. The US can’t conjure mass uprisings out of thin air. They can co-opt movements in moments of chaos or with liberal leaders. I don’t think they’ve gotten to that point yet here. This seems pretty spontaneous and unexpected. But I see nothing that would stop their tentacles from worming their way into the open space.

        • blobjim [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          81·
          8 days ago

          “Spontaneous” protests don’t involve immediately targeting every person in power and trying to kill them or destroy their homes. The PM has been filmed getting into a helicopter, presumably to leave the country or go somewhere safe. That isn’t something that happens during a spontaneous protest.

          And it’s never left-wing protests or protests with a stated purpose to protest a specific thing that are like this. It’s always some vague “anti-corruption” or “pro-democracy” thing with no leaders or demands or clear organizers. Next thing you know a Harvard-educated banker is taking out IMF loans.

          • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.netEnglish
            2·
            8 days ago

            Color revolutions operate by having clear demands and slogans about replacing the government, they always have an organized section of NGOs behind them. And they tend to be highly oriented around visibility and international optics. This doesn’t seem to be the case here.

            Are you going to call the 2022 Sri Lankan protests a color revolution too?

            • SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.mlEnglish
              4·
              8 days ago

              Exactly, this is a classic color coup targeting a left-wing (communist/soc-dem)

              Unfortunately the Communist movement in Nepal is deeply corrupt and opportunist. Not a whif of communism anymore, or even Socdem shit