Nepalese Maoists

I've been keeping track of these guys for a while. Now I note that, unlike their main rivals in global antisystemic activity (international mujihideen), the RIM has actually managed to get themselves firmly entrenched in government, and do so without either A) compromising with the prerevolutionary government or B) seizing power by force of arms. Contemporary Maoism is a strange beast indeed. It is adopted by erudite French philosophers and practiced by guerrilla insurgents. The Maoists of Southeast Asia are what this blog is about. They have simply not been informed that Marxism is dead, that Mao was a psychopathic killer (and in any case incoherent and barely Marxist), and that the parameters of global geopolitics are now such that the only possible site of conflict is within the clash of civilizations between Islam and The West. Rather, through practical philosophizing in the best Maoist tradition, they have arrived at similar conclusions about 'post-ideological' geopolitics as one the first world's foremost minds. With regard to the power elite, they are what Rumsfeld would call one of the things 'you don't know you don't know.' They succeed using methods that have been conclusively demonstrated to produce failure. They are beneath notice, but are now causing serious tremors in a region that is crucial to the continued success of global Capitalism. They have the potential to shift the situation of Southeast Asia into a site with true revolutionary possibilities.