> Maoism is retro, but so is Nepal's political, economic, and social
> structures. What would you do if you were stuck in a country ruled by
> a goddamn KING who exercised absolute power (a quintessentially retro
> institution, retrofitted by Washington, New Delhi, Beijing, and
> Pakistan)?
I don't know, and neither do you. We each live in Big Ten campus towns, so the concept of having to choose a 1940s Chinese rev model in order to overthrow a reactionary regime is not something you and I presently face. I'm no fan of Maoism -- I think it's a cultish perversion of socialism. But again, my query about Nepal wasn't based on my personal political value judgment, since I'm not there. I just wanted to see what others here thought.
Dennis