Doesn't Nepal have a ton of nominally communist parties that are not really about communism?
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This is true, yes. There was a Maoist insurgency which overthrew the monarch in 2006, which is very cool. What's not cool, is the fact that, instead of leading the coalition it had built, into forming a Socialist society, the Nepalese Maoists entered into an agreement to form a bourgeois parlimentary republic.
As a result, There are a ton of complicated splits and mergers in the communist movement. And the newly established bourgeois republic exists in a constant state of legislative gridlock and shifting governing coalitions, that never actually accomplish much of anything.
Like, it took ages for a series of constituent assemblies to draft a post-monarchy constitution, and key constitutional questions remain unanswered. The Nepali Supreme court regularly makes rulings that are like, "Yeah, we don't know"
I appreciate the help. Do you know if the dude who got elected seems to really, substantially be a communist or if the title is just an artifact of the relative chaos you describe?
That, I'm not sure of. The Nepalese Maoists seem to have fallen into a pretty serious state of revisionism.
The ones who haven't, have attempted at various points to restart the insurgency against the federal government, with minimal success.
I have no idea
Nepal has like 500 Maoist parties
