I had to go look up what happened in Nepal, msm isn't or hasn't run anything on it that I've seen. This is the first I've seen on a blockchain of it. Characteristically, this isn't something new in Nepal's history from what I've read, before going on to describe events through out it's history, the author of the article made an interesting observation before hand, and after hand of the described history.
Moving forward, the challenge for Nepalis, both Gen-Z and beyond, is to never forget the lessons of this revolution. History will not forget what happened on September 8 and 9, but we must also ask how and why it happened.
To understand this, we must view Nepal’s political history not as a series of isolated events but as a recurring pattern. The 2025 uprising did not emerge from nowhere; it was the latest eruption in a long cycle of revolt and betrayal. A Marxist analytical lens can help, not as ideology but as a framework. We can borrow the concepts of “base” and “superstructure” and adapt them politically. The “political base” can be understood as Nepal’s entrenched system of power, a network of patronage, corruption and governance that sustains the status quo. The “political superstructure” is the force that rises to challenge it, sometimes an organised party and others, in the case of Gen-Z, a decentralised public. This framework reveals a tragic cycle: In Nepal, every new superstructure that succeeds merely becomes the new base.
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This historical trajectory shows that the Gen-Z revolution of 2025 was not a sudden outburst but the detonation of a bomb decades in the making. The social media ban was merely the spark. Each “failed” revolution added pressure on a political base blind to Nepal’s economic contradictions, and on a public that had long internalised the need for revolt.
The task before Nepal’s revolutionary youth now is clear: To dismantle, relentlessly and transparently, the cycle of betrayal by leadership itself. The goal is no longer to change who holds power but to change what power means. We must never again outsource hope, agency or critical thinking to any self-proclaimed saviour. The lesson of September is that our only hope is ourselves. It has always been ourselves – not the king, not the prime minister, not the president, not the mayor. We cannot allow another leader to hijack the people’s agency. Accountability must become part of Nepal’s civic DNA to ensure a vigilant, organised and awake citizenry. The days of September 8 and 9 will never be forgotten and must never be repeated. The power must remain where it was discovered: With the people.
Granted this was some heavy duty economic damage done in the billions of dollars, they burnt down the entire government, and it only took to piss them off to that level, was to take away their social media. How sad is that really. It wasn't the corruption, the cronyism that kept the corruption intact, the last straw was banning their social media. Chances are pretty fair that moving forward, with their faces happily plastered into their phones, they'll never notice what's being built to take it places and the whole thing becomes "the same as it ever was", with the only thing being rest assured, is that no one ever messes with their social media ever again. Sad, tragically sad.
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