about building close relations with the parliamentary bourgeoisie against the monarchy. He claimed that their struggle is for the establishment of democracy. And he announced that“ you accept republicanism, we accept multiparty-ism”- the sheer act of bargaining. This Maoist group of Nepal thought that ending the power of the royal family and establishing a multiparty democracy means a republic, that is, a bourgeoise revolution to establish bourgeois democracy. This is left revisionism at its lowest level. It means, the existence of a bourgeois parliament i. e., the bourgeois revolution has been completed and the bourgeoisie is in power. But our teachers Com. Lenin, and Mao taught us that today the old type of bourgeois democratic revolution led by the bourgeoisie is no longer possible. Com. Mao wrote in his“ On New Democracy” that in semi-colonial countries, new democracy is a transitional state form.“ Each of these revolutions will necessarily have special characteristics of its own, but these will be minor variations on a general theme … The kind of state we need today is a dictatorship of all the revolutionary classes over counter-revolutionaries and traitors” and“ their leading force will be the working class”. And this new democratic state system is“ a joint dictatorship of all the revolutionary classes and the system of government, democratic centralism”. Although the Baburams have taken the name of Maoist in terms of organization, they have actually abandoned the thoughts of Mao Tse-tung. They were dreaming of establishing the traditional bourgeois democracy along with the traitorous class and their party which the bourgeoisie threw away a long time ago in a semi-colonial country in this imperialist era. We see the reflection of this in 2006. 10
In 2005, King Gyanendra dissolved the parliament and took all the power into his own hands. As a result, the king stood on one side and the people of the country on the other. In April 2006, the Maoists, Marxist-Leninist Party, and Nepali Congress all joined the movement against the monarchy. This was called Jana Andolan-Two after 1990. This movement lasted for about 19 days. And the Maoists declared that those who were protesting on the streets were not from any party, they were only the people who were fighting for the democracy of the country. This meant rejecting the leadership of the working people, including the workers and farmers. Earlier, at the beginning of Jana Andolan-Two, in November 2005, a 12-point agreement was reached with the Maoists, including the Nepali Congress, Marxist-Leninist Party, and seven other parties. And under the pressure of this Jana Andolan Two, the parliamentary system was re-established and the monarchy was completely abolished.
Is the democracy that was established in 2006 just classical bourgeois democracy? Is it a revolution or just a reform! The monarchy was removed, but whether any programme to destroy feudalism or to prevent the intervention of imperialists was taken and applied? Was there any safeguard in that 12-point agreement to establish the leadership of the revolutionary class and keep traitors away from power? Or a parliamentary political method controlled by the comprador bourgeoisie has been established like in other countries with semifeudal, semi colonial system as in Indian subcontinent? It is important to examine this. The Maoists, who had presented 40-point demands, including land reform, to the Sher Bahadur Deuba cabinet before starting the armed struggle in 1996 said that they would never become a parliamentary party again. And the Maoists, who had a People’ s Liberation Army of about twenty thousand in their hands, clearly declared in the 12-point agreement in November 2005 that the CPN( Maoist) organization was expressing its commitment to participate in this new peaceful political atmosphere with the aim of establishing permanent peace. In other words, a pledge to renounce armed struggle was given, but no demand was made for radical land reform. Not only that, in points 5 and 6, it was said that the land that the Maoists had wrongfully taken away would be returned to those who had it and they would be able to carry out their other activities freely. After selfcriticism and self-evaluation of the past, the CPN( Maoist) is declaring that they will not make the mistakes of the past again. At the end of the movement, according to the peace agreement with the Nepal government, on 21 November 2006, they declared termination of the armed struggle and its committees were also dissolved. And their People’ s Liberation Army was placed under the observation of United Nations. That is, without any demand for radical land reform, the armed struggle was abandoned, arrangements were made for the rehabilitation of the oppressors and landlords of the countryside. And these were the mistakes of the past!
Then in 2008, the Constituent Assembly elections were held and the Maoists won a landslide victory in these elections. It is worth mentioning that in 2007, the Maoists left the interim government and demanded the declaration of a republic. But the other major parties argued that they would not declare a republic without the permission of the elected Constituent Assembly. The Maoists accepted it like obedient children of bourgeois democracy. Lenin, in his book‘ Two Tactics of Social Democracy’, discussed in detail the tactics of the
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