Nepal's Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli today underlined the need to redefine and reinterpret the Marxist philosophy, saying a new thinking was required to effectively use Marxism in the contemporary world.
Oli, who is also the chairperson of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP), while inaugurating an international seminar on "Marxism and Socialism" organised by the party here to mark the bi-centennial of Karl Marx, also said that it is necessary to prove that the progress of humanity and end to social exploitations were possible only by following the ideology.
The Communist Party of Nepal-UML, led by Oli and CPN-Maoist Centre formally merged on May 17 to form the Nepal Communist Party (NCP).
"It is necessary to redefine Marxism in order to prove that freedom, liberation and end to exploitation is possible only under Marxism. Our principles of a people-oriented state and the governance system of competitive democracy are coherent," the Prime Minister said, adding "a new thinking is required to successfully and effectively use Marxism in the contemporary world."
He said that the communist forces in Nepal, which led the "movement to overthrow the autocratic regimes" in the past are now struggling against poverty, deprivation and backwardness.
"We have a firm belief that, we will succeed in the movement for social transformation and economic prosperity in our country, Oli said, adding that ideas like competitive multi-party system of governance, constitutional supremacy, period elections, human rights, check and balance, separation of powers and independence of judiciary are not necessarily capitalist in nature, they are in fact the achievements of humanity.
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The NCP Co-chairman and former Prime Minister Prachanda advised the communists across the world to seriously analyse the setback received by the communist regimes worldwide.
"The system has collapsed and countries have gone back to the old exploitative mode. Now it is high time that the communist movements around the world have learn correct lessons from the negative examples of the past and move ahead on the basis of ground realities with the basic tenets of Marxism," he said.
Underlining the need for the government to follow democracy, also within the party, Prachanda said "The principle of peoples democracy or 'Janabad', being followed by communists in Nepal will be instrumental in making socialism more viable and vibrant. This is the challenge of the 21st century to survive itself and conquer capitalism.
Senior NCP leader and former Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal said that there is no scientific thought other than Marxism, which has kept influencing the world for 170 years.
"Marxism is as strong as ever and I am confident that it will continue to remain so in the future as well," he added.
The main goal of Marxism is forward-looking socio-economic transformation, liberation of working class people and making people's life happier, dignified, equitable and prosperous, he said.
Nepal said that the Communist Party, founded in 1949 by Pushpalal Shrestha, has now emerged as an indomitable and popular force heading the current government in the country.
He said that the NCP has achieved an astounding victory by winning 174 seat out of total 275 seats in the House of Representatives and the country has new entered the phase of economic revolution and construction.
About 250 delegates, including 50 representatives, including 16 from India, China, Brazil, Japan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Vietnam, participated in the international seminar.
From India, representatives from CPI (ML), CPI and CPI (M) took part in the seminar.
Xue Song Ma, deputy director of International department of Communist Party of China and Jogendra Sharma of CPI (M) from India were among those who were present at the seminar.
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