{"id":98711,"date":"2026-08-16T17:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T12:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/?p=98711"},"modified":"2026-08-16T18:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T12:15:06","slug":"information-technology-has-made-capitalism-stronger-shankar-pokhrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/news\/98711","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Information technology has made capitalism stronger&#8217;: Shankar Pokhrel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Kathmandu\u2013CPN (UML) general secretary Shankar Pokhrel has said the development of information technology has further strengthened capitalism thereby increasing the global labour exploitation. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a national debate on &#8216;What to do next?&#8217; organized by Socialism Study Centre Nepal here today, Pokharel said that although the information revolution has created new economy, it has been increasing inequality in the society. <\/p>\n<p>Stating that the development of information technology has strengthened capitalism in a new way, he said that a large part of the world&#8217;s rich people are related to information technology and business. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The new economy brought about by the information revolution has made capitalism younger. With the development of information technology, Lenin&#8217;s dying capitalism has become young and has become a global labour exploiter,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>He said that a large proportion of the world&#8217;s richest people are related to information technology and business, which is increasing inequality in society. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, 50 percent of the world&#8217;s richest people are related to information technology and business. Information technology is working to create inequality in the society,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>Pokhrel said that then CPN-UML General Secretary Madan Bhandari had pursued a new political path by developing people&#8217;s multiparty democracy for the protection of communist movement. <\/p>\n<p>He claimed that Nepal&#8217;s communist movement was able to keep the communist movement in the top role for three decades on the basis of people&#8217;s multiparty democracy. <\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;Madan Bhandari adopted the policy of moving ahead through the development of people&#8217;s multiparty democracy for the protection of the communist movement. We were successful in keeping Nepal&#8217;s communist movement at the top for three decades. \u2019<\/p>\n<p>Pokharel pointed out the need of analyzing the present challenges in a new way. According to him, the leftist movement has laid more emphasis on form rather than substance of people&#8217;s multiparty democracy. <\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;We have laid more emphasis on form aspect while talking about people&#8217;s multiparty democracy. We ourselves could not emphasize the essence of it in the way it should have been broadcast. \u2019<\/p>\n<p>According to him, although there is a lot of discussion on rights and political discourse in the leftist movement in Nepal, there has not been enough discussion on the economic and political issues. <\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;In Nepal&#8217;s leftist movement, there are more issues of rights and political discourse. But in the context of economics, which is the basis of politics, we discuss only a limited number of people. The general awareness is very weak in Nepal&#8217;s leftist movement on economic and political issues. \u2019<\/p>\n<p>He stressed the need for the leftist movement to reanalyze its policies, programmes and political perspectives in keeping with the changing world environment and technological development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Kathmandu\u2013CPN (UML) general secretary Shankar Pokhrel has said the development of information technology has further strengthened capitalism thereby increasing the global labour exploitation. Speaking at a national debate on &#8216;What to do next?&#8217; organized by Socialism Study Centre Nepal here today, Pokharel said that although the information revolution has created new economy, it has<a href=\"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/news\/98711\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;&#8216;Information technology has made capitalism stronger&#8217;: Shankar Pokhrel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":97585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"acf":[],"publishedDateNp":"\u0969\u0967 \u0936\u094d\u0930\u093e\u0935\u0923 \u0968\u0966\u096e\u0969, \u0906\u0908\u0924\u0935\u093e\u0930 \u0967\u096d:\u096b\u096c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98712,"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98711\/revisions\/98712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/97585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}