Is Nepal ready to be red?

Very often when I am skimming news articles about the latest in Proletarian revolutionary struggles around the world, I come across various articles on the Maoist insurrections around the globe. I have to give the Maoists credit, as they are the only Marxist group that seems to be actively waging revolution. The most prominent Maoist insurgency is in the kingdom of Nepal, where victory seems to be imminent for the Maoist forces. Other Maoist battles are being fought in the Philippines, Peru, Turkey and India, and possibly other countries.

For some time, I've been trying to work out my position on the global Maoist insurgency in the
twenty- first century. I am still undecided as to whether or not the triumph of a government based on Mao Tse-Tung thought would be beneficial in Nepal, or any other country where maoist forces are engaged in peoples war.

Now,I'm not going to go into the usual capitalist propaganda about Maoist China, the cultural revolution, Tibet, Pol Pot's Cambodia, or any other alleged Maoist atrocities. My analysis is strictly of the current social conditions in the countries experiencing a Maoist peoples war.

It is obvious that all of the regimes that the Maoist forces are struggling against, are in desperate need of immediate removal. In the case of Nepal, the regime of King Gyanendra
is repressive and backwards. In Nepal, even those that are not communist are protesting the
rule of the king.

On the other hand, I am still undecided as to whether or not the Maoist forces in Nepal are progressive. At the very least, the Maoist revolution in Nepal seems a bit premature. According to Marxist theory, a society must progress through all the various stages of human development
before they are ready for the society of communist man. Nepal is still strangled by feudalism.
Any capitalist, or even pseudo-capitalist, forces in Nepal are minimal. By Marxist standards, Nepal is not ready for socialism. Granted that V.I. Lenin did say that the weakest links in the chain of capitalism would be the first to fall, but that doesn't necessarily mean that socialism would be able to thrive in these places.

The same goes for Peru, the Philippines, India, Turkey and others. The societies of these nations are at an almost medieval stage of development. Dialectically, these countries are still not quite ready for Socialism by Marxist standards.

It may seem arrogant to some that I would think myself qualified to comment on the maoist situation in the world today. While this journal is just to voice my personal opinions, I'm sure that these opinions are not exclusively my own. Of course it is the choice of the people of Nepal, and all other nations experiencing insurgency, as to whether or not a Maoist government is what they want, and what works for them, but it is also up to the people of these respective nations to adopt Mao Tse tung thought as their own, otherwise Maoism is doomed to failure in every country it touches.