What is Maoism and other essays

The book bring together a far-reaching interview of Baburam Bhattarai.a leading figure of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), conducted by the World People's Resistance Movement (Britain),that appears for the first time in print in India. Essentially, the various tracts bring you an intelligible, no-nonsense Marxism. The opening essay,' What is Maoism?' appears seminal in the context of the Maoist movement in India, a rebellion that is a direct consequence of the tragedy of India ruled by her big bourgeoisie and governed by parties co-opted by that class-fraction. The movement now threatens the accumulation of capital in its areas of influence, prompting the Indian state to intensify its barbaric counter-insurgency strategy to throttle it. In trying to understand what is going on, and, in turn, to re-imagine what the practice of radical democratic politics could be, the essay takes the reader aside to reflect over the questions: What is Maoism? What of its origins and development? What went before its advent? What are its flaws? Where is it going? Where should it be going, given its legacy?