Thanx for publishing this interview. You are doing a great job on reporting
from Nepal.
Lal Salam
Peter
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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:38:54 +0000
Subject: [** MAOIST_REVOLUTION **] Nepal: Comrade Gaurav speaks on Democracy
and Cultural Revolution
Comrade Gaurav has recently been made one of the secretaries in the new
Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (UCPN[M]) leadership structure.
WPRM (Britain and Ireland) activists met him at the party office in Paris
Dand (Hill), Kathmandu, where we tried to get deeper into the issue of
democracy, specifically the UCPN(M) concept of 21st century democracy, of
holding elections under New Democracy, and how this relates to the theory
and practice of Cultural Revolution. Following is the transcript of this
interview:
WPRM: In the current situation when the UCPN(M) has its sights set on New
Democratic Revolution, it seems more important than ever to understand the
party's idea of 21st century democracy, competitive elections under New
Democracy and socialism, can you explain this concept to us?
Comrade Gaurav: Yes we are now in the stage of completing the New Democratic
Revolution. The New Democratic system is not a socialist system. It is a
bourgeois democratic system. The difference is that the revolution is made
under the leadership of the proletariat. The old type of bourgeois
democratic revolution took place under the leadership of the bourgeoisie,
but the New Democratic Revolution will take place under the leadership of
the proletariat. When it is led by the proletariat it will lead towards
socialism and communism. On the other hand, if the bourgeois democratic
revolution is being led by the capitalist class, it will either consolidate
capitalism or, if it develops at all, it will develop towards imperialism.
That is the difference. So New Democratic Revolution in this sense is not a
socialist revolution, it is a bourgeois democratic revolution but it is led
by the proletariat. And, when the proletariat leads this revolution and the
revolution is completed, then immediately it will move towards socialism. It
will not consolidate bourgeois democracy, it will move towards socialism.
This debate was seriously carried out during 1956 in the Chinese Communist
Party (CCP). People like Deng Xiaoping said that since it is a bourgeois
democratic revolution, it is the time to consolidate capitalism. But, Mao
said that it should not be consolidated, it should go forward to socialism.
This is the basic division between New Democracy and socialism. And, the
question of which class is leading is the fundamental question.
So far as elections are concerned, under a New Democratic system there will
be a broad anti-feudal and anti-imperialist alliance. This will be the class
character of New Democratic Revolution. It is certainly true that not all
anti-feudal and anti-imperialist forces are communists. But there should be
a broad alliance of the UCPN(M) with different political forces who are
anti-feudal and anti-imperialist. We have to recognise the existence of
these other political forces, because they are the ally of the proletariat
during New Democratic Revolution. Therefore, we have to guarantee their
political freedom, and the political freedom of those parties has already
been carried out in China also. In China, except for the CCP there were nine
other political parties, all of which were anti-feudal and anti-imperialist.
They competed and participated in elections with the CCP and some of them
became ministers in the government. In our case also we have to recognise
those forces. They are not communists but they are the allies of anti-feudal
and anti-imperialist forces, and they should be guaranteed political
freedom.
When our party talks about multiparty competition or democracy, we are
talking about our concept of '21st Century Democracy'. The difference here
however is that in China there was a condition, all anti-feudal and
anti-imperialist forces had to cooperate with the CCP. This was the
precondition. But now our party is talking about allowing those political
parties to compete even with the UCPN(M). In China there was a precondition,
they were not allowed to compete but had to cooperate. In elections they
made some sort of compromise or negotiation and they fixed candidates by
consensus. In some constituencies the other parties put forward their
candidate and the CCP did not. And in most other seats they did not have a
candidate but supported the candidate of the CCP. But here in Nepal today we
are talking about competition. All those political parties will be allowed
to compete with the UCPN(M). We can have direct elections with those parties
and the Maoists. That is the difference. We are formulating this kind of
thing because the imperialists and the capitalists, who are the enemies of
socialism and communism, accuse communist parties of not allowing other
parties to compete. They say there is no competition, there is no democracy.
And in fact, in the old way there was scope for those political parties to
confuse the masses. For example, there is an election but there is only one
candidate, and if everybody has to vote for the same candidate what is the
meaning of this? It is something like selection. But we will make it clear
that people can vote for their own candidates and that there will be more
than two candidates for people to choose between.
Furthermore, we should give the people the right of recall. If the candidate
elected by them is not competent, or is taking an anti-people road, the
people's right of recall will be assured. This is the type of thing we have
to introduce in an electoral system. Only then can we assure the masses that
they can vote for the candidate they like and it is a real election where
there are many candidates. The election will have a definite meaning. If
there is only one candidate then voting is meaningless. This is what we mean
by '21st Century Democracy'. For the rest of the post please click on the
link http://www.wprmbritain.org/?p=878
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