Farooq Tariq: Nepali Communists win landslide, but face big obstacles to win change

Farooq Tariq writes that Nepali Communists win landslide, but face big obstacles to win change.

The Communists landslide victory is a positive development in the South Asian region. It is like a wave fresh, cool air in a heated region on Indian subcontinent.

But the real challenge begins now. The huge victory has raised huge expectations. Reforms are on the agenda.

However, reforms under capitalism can never be of a permanent nature. The capitalist path on longer run is a road to distraction and losing mass support of the Communists ideology. They have to move ahead on the road of parliament to abolishing of capitalism and remaining elements of feudal society. They know the best how to do it if they want to do it.

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The Nepali Communists used a similar strategy to SYRIZA — building political support through community organisations.

The Nepali Communists may have an easier time because of the weakness of Capitalist development in Nepal. However, this weakness also undermines the development of a Socialist society. A Socialist society has to be industrialised.

As is being shown in Venezuela, the development of socialism during a period of dual power is difficult.