• Mokey2 [none/use name]
    ·
    edit-2
    6 hours ago

    Everything about India sounds so miserable, like imagine if they went communist like the Chinese did.

    @jackmarxist@hexbear.net

    Can you share any good or promising things about India? What I can see from social media seems very bleak.

    • Hello_Kitty_enjoyer [none/use name]
      ·
      edit-2
      2 hours ago

      this is like saying europe is a shithole because europeans in america shoot up schools

      whites try to know anything about the world at all (challenge impossible ik)

      also 3 of those top 13 cities are european and one of them's even in italy lmfao (despite having 80x the GDP)

    • BashfulBob [none/use name]
      ·
      4 hours ago

      imagine if they went communist like the Chinese did

      They were Soviet Aligned for most of the Cold War. But the division between Hindus and Muslims eventually created a wedge that western capital could leverage to break the leftist tendencies of the earlier governments, ending with Chaudhary Charan Singh. By the 80s, they'd begun a full transition to neoliberal governance.

    • Esoteir [he/him]
      ·
      6 hours ago

      iirc kerala is pretty cool, they regularly elect marxist communists and while it's not a socialist state by any means, they've done good things working in the confines of the liberal framework with stuff like the highest minimum wage in india and a strong protest scene

      • Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org
        ·
        4 hours ago

        Kerala has done decently well.
        The current govt has aimed at eradicating extreme poverty from Kerala by the end of the next year.
        https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/kerala-rolls-out-plan-to-eradicate-extreme-poverty-by-2025-2422621-2023-08-17

        It may not be according to Western standards, but it's still a very cool initiative.

        There's also the Nava Kerala mission
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nava_Kerala_Mission
        Nava means New in Malayalam, the main language used in Kerala.

      • jackmarxist [any]
        hexagon
        ·
        6 hours ago

        Kerala is run by a Communist Party and they're the most literate state in India. Plus communal harmony is also the best in Kerala.

      • Wertheimer [any]
        ·
        5 hours ago

        And their maternal mortality rate is lower than it is in many U.S. states (Georgia, Texas, etc.)

    • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.ml
      ·
      4 hours ago

      Are you asking this from the point a tourist? Or generally in terms of the direction the country is headed in?

      If you wanna travel then I don't good advice but Kerala and the Himalayas are very beautiful, though the latter spills over to Nepal.

      For the other question I would say the outlook id overall pessimistic.

    • miz [any, any]
      ·
      6 hours ago

      while we're asking questions where can I find a historical materialist examination of the whole Operation Blue Star incident and the leadup to it.

      • Mokey2 [none/use name]
        ·
        edit-2
        42 minutes ago

        Why was this removed by mod? Im just trying to learn and be less ignorant

        Like if jack was mad my bad