The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) has been the most successful Maoist revolution since China itself. They have parted with some of the old notions of communism such as the one party state. Some Maoist groups in their international, the Revolutionary International Movement (RIM) have been critical of their multi-party system.
Some are now criticizing them for not following Maoist doctrine closer. However, most of this criticism comes from parties that are out of power. The Revolutionary Communist Party USA is one of their critics. The RCP is not even close to being a major party in the US, so why are they giving out critical advice to a party that just won a revolutionary struggle? Here are some documents to the debate:
From the Kasama Project:
Nepal's Maoist revolution have stirred deep controversy within the international communist movement -- focused on the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoists) approach to strategy, ,tactics and communist theory.
Now that long developing struggle over line has erupted a new and highly way.
the RCP,USA has decided to publish a series of letters, exchanged between the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and the Revolutionary Communist Party,USA are now public.
These important documents are being made available on the Kasama site (www.kasamaproject. org). And they are being debated.
Kasama has published three of the letters in full online: Â Kasama has also made availabe a combined printable document containing the single letter from the Nepali Maoists, and seven pieces by the RCP.
We urge all revolutionaries to dig into this important line struggle which touches on many of the most crucial problems and controversies confronting communist revolution everywhere.
Here are some of the relevant links:
1) Kasama site:Â
www.kasamaproject. org
2) RCP letter from Nov. 2008
http://mikeely. wordpress. com/2009/ 03/23/rcp- critique- of-the-communist -party-of- nepal-maoist- nov-2008/Â
3) RCP letter Oct. 2005
http://mikeely. wordpress. com/2009/ 03/23/rcp- critique- of-the-communist -party-of- nepal-maoist- oct-2005/
4) the response from the CPN(M) (June 2006).
http://mikeely. wordpress. com/2009/ 03/23/communist- party-of- nepal-maoists- responds- to-rcp-critique- june-2006/
5) The pdf combining eight documents of this line strugglehttp://mikeely. files.wordpress. com/2009/ 03/letters. pdf
Here are some relevant quotes:
From the Nepali Maoists:
Yes, there are some confusing positions in our interpretations, in several contexts. We think sometimes they are necessary. If we can confuse our enemies and the international community with our tactical dealings, it can divide them to a certain extent, which will benefit our revolution. Problems will arise only if the Party of the proletariat itself is confused. So long as the ideological and political line is clear and the Party is committed to accomplishing its strategic mission, it can lead the masses in all circumstances. Revolutionaries can lead the masses ahead from the height of consciousness they acquire from the class struggle in society, not from the height of consciousness the Party of the proletariat has. It is a question of not dictating to them to do what we want, but of being together with the masses to deal with the situation and applying the mass line to develop their consciousness.
"The masses never compromise with their necessities but prefer peaceful execution. It is the task of the revolutionary parties to prove through practice that their necessities are not met by peaceful means. And only by doing this can the Party of the proletariat lead them to violent struggles. We understand that the enemy will not allow us to attain our strategic goal in a peaceful way, but we can lead the masses in violent struggle to overthrow them with such political tactics."
"Our Party is very keenly trying to learn from the experiences of revolutionary struggles and tactical moves of the International Communist Movement, in general, and the latest experiences of Peru and Nicaragua in particular.. . We believe that both ways of adopting tactics, in Peru and Nicaragua, were wrong. We are confident that we can protect our movement from the mistakes committed in these two countries.
"On the basis of our experience of unity and struggle with your Party in the past in general and your letter at present in particular, we believe that your Party is deeply suffering from the dogmato-sectarian trend. Therefore, we are not surprised to receive from your Party a warning bell through your letter in which it has doubted that our revolution is sliding towards revisionism."
From the RCP,USA:
"Our comrades in Nepal are caught in a swamp and in dire danger of drowning. And what has been the reaction of RIM comrades in other countries to this emergency? While a few have tried to assist as best they can, unfortunately some others have thrown flowers to the floundering comrades when what they critically need is a strong rope to pull themselves out of the swamp. The necessary rope exists: it is nothing other than the revolutionary communist ideological and political line, its stand, viewpoint and method….The current two-line struggle within the CPN(M) is taking place within the context of the greater question of whether, and on what basis, a whole new wave of world proletarian revolution can be brought forward.
The belief that the advanced practice of the Nepal revolution has made it unnecessary to learn from advanced understanding from other comrades is part of the pragmatism and empiricism that has, unfortunately, been a growing part of the CPN(M) leadership’s ideological orientation for some time now. Any effort to resolve the crisis in the CPN(M) only “on its own terms, and on nationalist or empiricist grounds to ignore or resist the advanced revolutionary communist understanding developing elsewhere is to severely handicap the struggle for a correct line. In particular, we sincerely hope that the comrades of the CPN(M) will give serious attention to engaging with the body of work, method and approach, the New Synthesis, that Bob Avakian has been bringing forward."
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