tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544356010661157280.post8276353105731351228..comments2024-03-19T09:03:35.497-07:00Comments on Democracy and Class Struggle: Letters to the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) from the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, 2005-2008Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544356010661157280.post-23419565708499821322009-03-26T22:42:00.000-07:002009-03-26T22:42:00.000-07:00A portion below from my blog entries re this RCPUS...A portion below from my blog entries re this RCPUSA polemic. Italics below are from the November 08 letter to Maoists:<BR/><BR/><I>"..Marx’s point that “the proletariat<BR/>cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state<BR/>machinery and wield it for its own purposes” but must<BR/>“smash it” and establish its own state."</I><BR/><BR/>The above is clearly something a "true communist" as they say Stephen Mauldinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13762197933555699379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544356010661157280.post-1897788279478515262009-03-25T08:30:00.000-07:002009-03-25T08:30:00.000-07:00I like your Prachanda and Bhattarai dancing at the...I like your Prachanda and Bhattarai dancing at the edge of revisionism as a tactic and it probably sums up my position on these two.<BR/><BR/>However I am not happy with the messenger the RCPUSA being the subject of attack rather than the message about centrism and eclecticism which are legitimate causes for concern about the UCPN Maoist.<BR/><BR/>Whilst I hold Badiou in high regard just as I do nickglaishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14880536147559732867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544356010661157280.post-89852211964985546302009-03-25T05:51:00.000-07:002009-03-25T05:51:00.000-07:00Nick we been corresponding facebook on these issue...Nick we been corresponding facebook on these issues.. you wanted me to transfer some here.. I am just cutting and pasting what I can quickly:<BR/><BR/>moving most recent to prior in order..<BR/><BR/>Nicholas Glais at 7:21pm March 24<BR/>Stephen could you post your comment on Democracy and Class Struggle.<BR/><BR/>I do not think it necessary to endorse the RCPUSA new synthesis to agree with some Stephen Mauldinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13762197933555699379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544356010661157280.post-48198433613802968952009-03-24T12:32:00.000-07:002009-03-24T12:32:00.000-07:00The centrist criticism of CPN Maoist leadership is...The centrist criticism of CPN Maoist leadership is not unique to RCPUSA and is voiced with the UCPN Maoist as well in the West.<BR/><BR/>The eclectic criticism again is not unique to RCPUSA but they have done a good job in exposing some of the electicism of UCPN Maoist on the question of Democacy.<BR/><BR/>The RCPUSA has a template for revolution which does not fit the Nepalese situation and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5544356010661157280.post-13907822797141956502009-03-24T00:56:00.000-07:002009-03-24T00:56:00.000-07:00Anonymous said... I found the UCPN Maoist posltion...Anonymous said... <BR/>I found the UCPN Maoist posltion of criticising one divides into two very reminicent of Deng Xiaoping thought and his philosopher Wu Jia in the late 1980's and early 1990's and is not a good sign if the UCPN Maoist is travelling this philosophical roadAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com