Genuine question, and I’ll admit I’m biased when it comes to this and I’m completely willing to hear any arguments, but is the India and Pakistan conflict an example of imperialism on behalf of India?
India and Pakistan are pretty much equals for all intents and purposes, militarily or otherwise. I’m not going to deny India is a fascist state atm that has been colonizing Kashmir for the past 50 years but, like, so has Pakistan. I dunno, I’m just kind of irked by Euros claiming India’s imperialist (about the wrong things) when it’s their fault in the first placed they stoked racial and ethnic tensions that led to partition and the subjugation of Kashmir, India doesn’t do an imperialism against Pakistan is what I’m saying.
I think there are definitely Imperial contradictions in India, especially those that come from being the de-facto rump government of the British Empire in the region.
But India's capitalist state doesn't have regional hegemony, nor does it have the capability to establish such outside it's core territories. It might become such, but it isn't now.
It is definitely possible to be Fascist and irredentist and not Imperialist, see every eastern European government of the 1930s
Genuine question, and I’ll admit I’m biased when it comes to this and I’m completely willing to hear any arguments, but is the India and Pakistan conflict an example of imperialism on behalf of India?
India and Pakistan are pretty much equals for all intents and purposes, militarily or otherwise. I’m not going to deny India is a fascist state atm that has been colonizing Kashmir for the past 50 years but, like, so has Pakistan. I dunno, I’m just kind of irked by Euros claiming India’s imperialist (about the wrong things) when it’s their fault in the first placed they stoked racial and ethnic tensions that led to partition and the subjugation of Kashmir, India doesn’t do an imperialism against Pakistan is what I’m saying.
I think there are definitely Imperial contradictions in India, especially those that come from being the de-facto rump government of the British Empire in the region.
But India's capitalist state doesn't have regional hegemony, nor does it have the capability to establish such outside it's core territories. It might become such, but it isn't now.
It is definitely possible to be Fascist and irredentist and not Imperialist, see every eastern European government of the 1930s