While the communist party of India (marxist) , is not in power as of now , they have had history of winning elections, however there is a fatal flaw in their ideology , when it comes to fighting against opperession , while they agree upon existence of class disparity and want to work on the goal of removing it , the oldschool communists do not recognise caste system. For those who are not aware , caste system is a problem specific to indian subcontinent , it is like a dominant class of people who are called the upper castes ( tho in minority) , had deprived the lower castes , into not allowing them to get educated or get any other work that they were assigned at birth , by the family name they were born in . That kept the lower castes poor and deprived for ages. The CPI(M) is mostly flooded with the upper caste and do not recognise this systemetic opperssion that has been in place since ages !
can you speak more to this, or point me to more material on the continuation of caste systems? I'm aware dhalits are still subject to discrimination, but I know very little about the system and contemporary implications
Well even to this day the caste system exists in implicit or explicit forms , when you see that the jobs those are for instance a jaintor job , or a person cleaning bathroom , cutting hair , etc they are all seen as lower caste , some of them are even considered untouchable, people would not allow them to get a simple job as well , for instance they wont be allowed to get a domestic helper job either , and tho this is not explicit , this is implicit, even if few of them are ablet to come out of the toxic system, and they make some money , society still has contempt and stigma towards them, they arent allowed to rent house easily , are called names , if they get into educational institute they are bullied , many of them even got killed in recent years for doing something normal , like wearing a good wedding dress coz an upper caste didnt like it !
That sounds like discrimination from the labour aristocracy. I can see this as an exploitable weakness to subdivide the working class, weakening the movement.
Caste discrimination is rampant even among the poorest. It is not something that the wealthier do to the poorer.
Edit: I hate typing on the phone
Still a poor brahmin ( upper caste ) wont be discriminated in a public school while a poor dalit will be ! They have a privilege attached , its like white man privilege in the states !
That is what I meant to say
That is what it is exactly , but even if you see comments on this post , people call it idnetity politics !
thats because it is, IDpol is propogated top-down and benefits the upper class (if we are both saying that people calling the caste system IDpol anyway, just making sure we're on the same page)
Eh ? How would asking rights for lower castes benefit the upper caste ?
oh it wouldnt, if people are saying that is IDpol they have 0 idea what IDpol is; you're correct in saying that the caste system is the IDpol and its not IDpol to demand rights for lower castes, or to demand the full abolishment of the caste system, as it is one of the worst forms it takes globally. The indian caste system is brutal and I hope you rid yourselves of it soon comrade.