What the....Maoists?!?

[Little Raven]

In India, no less...

Communist rebels armed with rifles, hand grenades and petrol bombs attacked a police post in the jungles of eastern India on Thursday, killing at least 49 officers, police said.

The pre-dawn attack Thursday was the latest in a series of increasingly bold assaults by the rebels, who have been fighting for more than two decades in central and eastern India's long-impoverished hinterlands.

Equipped with rifles, hand grenades and homemade petrol bombs, the insurgents appeared to have caught the 79 officers guarding the remote post by surprise, Swarnkar said. Another 12 officers were wounded in the attack.

Dang, I figured that philosophy was officially buried with the capitalist takeover of China. Guess there may be a few reflex tremors left in the body.

 

[silver 2039]

Ah yes Naxalaties. Yeah this has been going on for a long time since the 1970's it began in the village of Naxalbari in West Bengal. They've been striking at police stations and such occassionally. A few attacks now and then. Their latley operating deeper into the south. The main problem is the low degree of development and poverty in the eastern regions. Once that is solved this will pretty much be over.

 

[CCA]

These guys are well and truly alive:
http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/

 

[Phlegmak]

In India, no less...Dang, I figured that philosophy was officially buried with the capitalist takeover of China. Guess there may be a few reflex tremors left in the body.

Officially buried? Pfft. You must be living under a rock. Communists are like roaches -- they're hard to get rid of.

 

[The Last Conformist]

Dang, I figured that philosophy was officially buried with the capitalist takeover of China.

Why? Maoist attacks in India aren't all that rare, and last my newspaper could be bothered to mention Nepal the gov't had been forced into a power-sharing deal with the Maoist insurgents.

 

[Leonel]

Somewhere, McCarthy is gloating

 

[TheDervish]

Maoism is now rampant in Nepal, I'm not at all surprised that it's spilling into West Bengal.

 

[Kraznaya]

The Maoist fallacy has infiltrated many revolutionary groups now; and it's not just in Asia: organizations claim to recognize Maoist ideals from places as far away as Ireland. Not that the Great Leap Forward or the Cultural Revolution accomplished anyway besides the "we shouldn't try that again."

 

[Tee Kay]

Maoism (or broader communism) is still very much active in South Asia. The Communist Party is a major political party in India and Maoists are in the government in Nepal at the moment. Note that relationships between the PRC and the Maoists in India and Nepal aren't smooth. Nepalese Maoist had denounced the PRC for abandoing Mao's ideals and the PRC responded by aiding the monarchy against the rebels.

 

[Stylesjl]

Meh, they won't disappear. But they are hardly a threat to global stability

 

[Kraznaya]

Note that relationships between the PRC and the Maoists in India and Nepal aren't smooth. Nepalese Maoist had denounced the PRC for abandoing Mao's ideals and the PRC responded by aiding the monarchy against the rebels.

Of course. The PRC now is all about practical authoritarianism. Mao was a revolutionary authoritarian, loving revolution while being The Man. One of the most hypocritical ways of thought ever.

 

[Tee Kay]

Meh, they won't disappear. But they are hardly a threat to global stability

Ah but remember, the region is quite volatile with hundreds of minority groups, seperatists, and nuclear missiles. Plus, its a very handy place for the West to use to control China and Iran (or Russia for that matter).

 

[CCA]

If Globalization was as cracked up as it's said to be no one would be a communist or a socialist anymore. The wonders of unfettered free-market capitalism should produce immensly high living standards that silences even the most hardened communist. But obviously globalization only benefits the elite.