The dynamite to bring down the old building? : the Maoist war in Nepal

![CDATA[For nearly a decade a People’s War has raged in Nepal. This war may be the last of the peasant wars of the twentieth century, as described by Eric R. Wolf. It may also represent Barrington Moore Jr’s argument that emergent democratic systems in the twentieth century are the resolution of class struggles over the land and its labour force. In land-locked economically-backward agrarian Nepal, where an upper class has retained domination over its peasant labour force, ultimately by the use of violence, the emergence of a fully bourgeois society has, until the present, been prevented. In these circumstances, where power over peasant populations continues, either absolutist regimes maintain their rule, stifling nascent bourgeois classes, or the old regime is overthrown.]]