I like to think of it this way, yeah the battle seems hopeless but that's what's so great about it.
If it were easy, what would the point even be? We have to win, we can't let any other future exist.
Battle for communism in India is not hopeless. Terminally online Indians want to make it seem as if India will 'never become communist' because 'Indians will never want to associate with China' when the truth is not a single rural person gives a fuck about China, and India is 80% rural. They're busy trying to stay alive motherfuckers don't even know what a China is.
That's very presumptuous to say that they don't know what China is when it's the neighboring country. Also, kinda downplaying the racism faced by North eastern Indians because they look like south east Asians and get called the slur starting with ch**kies.
I'm sorry but have you been to the rural parts of India in UP, Rajasthan, Punjab? I'm not talking about city dwelling shitheads and expats, how much do you think the rural population interacts with northeast Indians, do they even know they exist? Vast swathes of this country is so poor and so uneducated they don't even know a lick of Hindi, the supposed national language. Literally millions of farmers are killing themselves due debt and drought. Of course there is federal and institutional racism against NE Indians but this has nothing to do with China or geopolitcal fears about the country.
I was talking generally and more on a global level, I'm hopefully optimistic about India as an ignorant murican whose brain is poisoned by how hopeless it seems for my country.
Really good news, especially because they are absolutely not going to just roll over and disband now. The CPI (Marxist) has the revolutionary potential to really do something in India with that coalition of farmers if they can form a united front with the other communist factions that already control states and territory.
I think CPIM (and other communists) power bases are too regional, but I hope you're right. Currently the reactionary forces are strong. The BJP is the biggest political party in the world and nationally the liberals of the Congress party are the lead opposition.
But, things can change quickly. :lenin-shining:
Lal Salam :red-fist:
BJPee is in retreat, unless they have a kristalnacht moment they are in major fuckage in the next election.
The Congress party is a mess, people will literally vote for BJP because the libs are so terminally corrupt the prospect of zero economic growth and Corona seems like a better prospect than that gaggle of baboons and inbreds.
Communist party of Bengal needs to get its head out its ass and retake what has been theirs for generations and make use of that massive infrastructure.
The time is now for Punjab comrades to make a massive fucking push, there has never been a better time. Those are two of the biggest states, if they go down and join Kerala and Tamil Nadu shit is going to be lit.
'Objects in the mirror are way closer than they appear' I'm eternally hopefull that meme is true and I think it's realistic.
BJPee is in retreat, they are in major fuckage in the next election.
That'll kick ass
I've been probably too traumatized by :amerikkka: for true revolutionary optimism , but the future is open :inshallah:
They've been active for over half a century and might number in the tens of thousands (in a country of 1.3 billion). India is big, not just population wise, but territorially. The Naxals are active in rural, forested tribal areas where state reach is weak. Their continued resistance is impressive, but I'm not sure its indicative of anything.
I think there's reason to be optimistic; I just think things can go either way and will take a while to develop. Kerala continues to provide a socialist model of state development. Communists are active in every state (even where they don't have any political offices), and they are connected to national organizations. Moreover the leftist electoral parties mostly act in unity (regularly, left unity in India means several parties all espousing Marxism-Leninism forming a coalition lol). Leftist parties also engage beyond elections in mass work, providing aid and public service.
If you want to see why things are on a knife's edge, then look at the forces of reaction in action. In Tripura where CPM barely lost control in the last election, the BJP has violently attacked communists.
I'm not an expert, but I agree with the sentiment that the farmer's movement has shown people what mass action can do. So new things can develop, and the struggle of the farmers has led to deeper organization and class consciousness among the farmers. But the future is still a big question mark.
Not trying to play down this great achievement but I wouldn't be surprised if Modi tries this shit again in a few years, with similar response hopefully.
