tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5300075931943295047.post2926091257592508028..comments2024-02-28T19:09:10.029-08:00Comments on Worker Socialist: Nepal: Does Article of Bhattarai Indicates a Trotskyist Turn in Nepal?worker socialisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04709117959849750573noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5300075931943295047.post-50302834945840673772011-11-15T22:24:31.215-08:002011-11-15T22:24:31.215-08:00In this context, Marxist revolutionaries should re...In this context, Marxist revolutionaries should recognize the fact that in the current context, Trotskyism has become more relevant than Stalinism to advance the cause of the proletariat”<br><br>I AGREE in total, Trotsky. ... yje one & only solutionLeon Raohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06257839896293308817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5300075931943295047.post-47916090493893849022009-10-22T09:54:51.935-07:002009-10-22T09:54:51.935-07:00I don't disagree Ben in this regard. In fact i...I don't disagree Ben in this regard. In fact it is *likely* the Nepalese Maoists will now supress this, but we'll see.David Waltershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03070034894266417461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5300075931943295047.post-64546440735011471182009-10-21T18:37:56.075-07:002009-10-21T18:37:56.075-07:00The significance of this is not at all that Bhatta...The significance of this is not at all that Bhattarai if influenced by<br>Trotski. Thats been a pretty open secret for years. Anyone whos read<br>Bhattarai would've noticed that he references Trotski quite often.<br><br>What is significant is for him to not only mention OPEN and PUBLICLY in<br>party literature that he is a historical fan of Trotski, but the say that<br>the T-man is more significant then Stalin. THATS something big, and frankly,<br>surprising. That simply would not have been possible for ANYONE in that<br>party to do ten years ago, and is guaranteed to rub some of the more<br>dogmatic within the party the wrong way.<br>-Ben PetersonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5300075931943295047.post-10580995060543154892009-10-21T09:08:32.192-07:002009-10-21T09:08:32.192-07:00I think it's important here to parse this out ...I think it's important here to parse this out as an affirmation of the role of Trotsky rather than any adherence on the part of Baburam Bhattarai to Trotskyism. <br><br>Baburam Bhattarai certainly, or at least in many respects, to the *right* of Nepali Maoism. He's an advocate of participation in the Nepali gov't and is, in his own way, a big purveyor of the most right-wing interpretation of the two-stage revolution, not a rejection of it but adaptation too it. In this regards he stands opposite of Permanent Revolution.<br><br>D. Walters<br>USDavid Waltershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03070034894266417461noreply@blogger.com