![]() The radicalism of the petite bourgeoisie is born out of frustration and nationalism when "hothouse schemes of instant revolution meet reality" and "burst like balloons". What are often perceived as symptoms of his faut naif, if not the foot-in-the-mouth disease in the class of "misunderestimated " of Bushism or the " covfefe" of Trumpism, may be meant to convey a subliminal message to his primary constituency-the lumpenbourgeoisie that aid and abet what Gus Hall, general secretary of the Communist Party USA, described as petty-bourgeois radicalism. Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, the chairperson of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) and the primarily acknowledged chieftain of the Khas-Arya community, excels in all such qualities. The putative supremo has to keep repeating that only he-such a pretender is rarely of a different gender-knows how to maintain ethnonational supremacy through geopolitical balance. The demonisation of an invented 'other' has to be done through jingoistic exhortations. Collective narcissism has to be nurtured with wishful references to nostalgia based on narratives from an imagined past. It is not easy to be the ethnonational supremo of a dominant majority with a minority complex. ![]()
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