Bonapartisms

It’s hard to believe that 16 years after the unbanning of the South African Communist Party to worldwide acclaim, the equivalent of our Young Communist League could be banned in the Czech Republic. Yet this seems to be the case. Thanks to James Tweedie of the London District YCL for bringing it to our attention. In a different kind of fantasy, the ideas of Hernando de Soto seem to feed into the vague, eclectic mix associated with the promotion of our new Deputy President. Ann Crotty points out some of the weaknesses (see below). In a more extreme kind of Bonapartism, the King of Nepal has failed in an attempt to legitimise his coup d’etat by holding local authority elections under absurd and tragic conditions of repression. The Nepalese people rejected this phoney sham of democracy. Links: Czech Communist Youth Movement banning, YCLB (270 words) Open Letter to Czech Ambassador from YCL London District (167 words) Why poor get poorer according to de Soto and P M-N, B Rep (864 words) Mass boycott of Nepal elections hits king, FT (474 words)