Farce Agreed Completed for Christmas

Nepalese politicos have reached an agreement to kick out the monarchy once the new assembly has met. So the New York Times, CNN, Reuters India, BBC News, and Voice of America report.

Google News has more here, here, and here.

Disciplinary action will supposedly taken againt Nepalese royalists. So Kantipur Online reports. More related stories at Google News.

Mr. Maila Baje comments here, here, and here.

When monarchy was dumped in the West, we saw an unprecedented size and reach of the state. When monarchy was dumped in Central Europe and Germany, we saw the rise of Nazism. When monarchy was dumped in Russia, we saw the rise of Communism, as we did after a while also in China, where it was known specifically as Maoism.

Now in the Kingdom of Nepal, the monarchy has been dumped, only awaiting ratification, with politicos, among them Maoists fighting for power. No one knows what the result in the end will be, but neither of the likely alternatives look any good.

Hegel told us:

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

The history that is unfolding right now in the Kingdom of Nepal is very unlikely to be contrary to what Hegel told us. The same we can say about some words of Karl Marx:

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

A variant of Karl Marx's followers are playing a central role in this farce.