
Violence continues in rural West Bengal, where the Indian military is campaigning against a scrappy band of rebels referred to as "Maoists." How do Maoists differ from your garden-variety followers of Marxist tenets? Microkhan broke it down a few years back, when the Nepalese civil war was in full swing. Seems like it's mostly about the proletariat's day-to-day jobs—if their people spend more time whacking the soil with sticks than manufacturing steel, insurgents are likely to come down on the M
Published on June 30, 2009 08:00