Maung Sue San, a well-known ex-communist writer, was one of the first to embrace global trends that departed from Burma’s principal literary ideologies of communism and capitalism. Maung Sue San is another dissent who was hated so much by the communist party members and the party sympathisers. He was denounced as a counter-revolutionary, opportunist, reactionary, capitalist roader, and bourgeoisie writer by the elder generation of leftists in Burma but was praised as a dissent, economist writer and democratic socialist by the newer generation of leftists and other organic intellectuals.
MASS protests against the February military coup in Myanmar have shown the breadth of popular opposition to the junta headed by Min Aung Hlaing.
In the assessment of the illegal Communist Party of Burma (CPB), the current broad movement against the military displays many familiar features from past democratic and left movements as well as some new features.
The role of the urban working class is one such factor. Despite the numerical increase in the working class compared with the immediate post-war period, trade unions in Myanmar have often been either co-opted, marginalised or repressed.
“One of the significant features of Burma’s politics before independence was the influence of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and leftist movements the world over.
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Burma’s Communists say military coup a symptom of Myanmar’s crony capitalism April 26, 2021 2:42 PM CDT By Kenny Coyle
Anti-coup protesters flash the three-finger sign of defiance during a demonstration in Yangon, Myanmar, on Friday, April 23, 2021. | AP
The military coup in Myanmar on Feb. 1 this year is a product of the country’s long-running social and economic crisis, according to the Communist Party of Burma (the party prefers to refer to its country as Burma, as some other opposition forces also do, rather than the military-chosen name Myanmar.)