Nepal, Feb. 12 -- The State is hell bent on owning all the means of production and curbing freedom of speech and human rights

Connecting the dots, one can see the direction the "socialism-oriented" state is heading towards. Socialism is not merely about the free access to education or health services, it is more about barring the private ownership of the means of production. It is evident that the Maoist-led government, to establish a socialist order, has been systematically attacking private ownership in education, health and industry, trade and commerce.

Karl Marx, in his famous Communist Manifesto, said that the state "is merely the organized power of one class for oppressing another." Unfortunately this realization came too late to ...