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Why would an ideology meant for the emancipation of the proletariat be so vehemently opposed by those same proletariat it is meant to emancipate?

I've been thinking and reading on the psychology of fascism lately and seeing the recent Hindutva attacks in my state, in my city against Jadavpur University on August 19-20, SRFTI on September 27 and October 4 and recently on a Marxist bookstall yesterday, I am now convinced of following theory I've been developing for a long time.

Growing up in the city meant that I always had close interactions with people who were or had some of their family members associated with CPIM. It was very common for them to think of the grassroots cadres as people who are incapable of learning theory, history and so on. One of my best friends was from a family in which all members were members of CPIM and I quite clearly remember him saying “those who are there to write on walls don't need to learn theory”, subtly implying that theory was for people like “us”. Now fast forward to after I finished my masters and I joined DYFI I encountered the same attitude again, except this time it was I who was “not capable of learning theory”. I was literally told by my unit leader that “you don't need to think about theory, there are many big people to do theory”. Other than the paraphernalia and obsessive compulsive fixation on elections what turned me really off was this infantilization.

To understand why this is so important let me do a social analysis of capitalism and the psychological vulnerabilities it keeps alive for fascists to exploit. Capitalism, as we all see around us, exacerbates class inequalities. As time goes by, the divide between the privileged and under privileged grows deeper. The latter soon find themselves not only locked out of the finer things in life that are enjoyed by their privileged counterparts but also in a cultural milieu that is completely distinct. For them Marx, Lenin, Ray, Tagore are bourgeois even though they don't articulate it in this way. As they feel alienated from this culture they even take pride in ridiculing these names. Their serious discontent with the prevailing system and their envy of their privileged counterparts find expression in violent fascist attacks like what we see in the Kanwar yatra and the instances of attacks mentioned above. The fascist leaders are smart enough to keep this repressed anger from turning into a full blown class war, so they intentionally spread hateful poison against poor muslims, dalits etc. The fascists provide a substitute for the repressed class hatred by channeling it towards some helpless minorities, yet the class hatred surfaces anyway

There is both tragedy and irony in this story. The tragedy is that “Marxists”, at least in my state and city, have turned Marxism into a bourgeois or petite bourgeois science. Those who go to JU and find the time to engage in Left politics are usually a privileged bunch. The same can be said of students in SRFTI, ISI etc. They are seen with envy by people who are not so privileged. As much as I hate to admit it, the Ambedkarites were correct in attributing a privileged caste character to Marxism in India (at least as far as my state is concerned). Their problem is that they came at it from an identitarian perspective which is not helpful. The real issue is that it is completely opposite of what Marxism and especially Leninism is supposed to be. The Marxist isn't supposed to care only about doing pointless academic work to feel good about herself. She is supposed to go to the masses and educate them in our world view so they see it as their own. It isn't like that is very difficult to do either because my comrades and I do it a lot and people show genuine curiosity and ingenuity in learning. Since CPIM never did such a thing because frankly they aren't revolutionary to begin with, they have left that space open to the fascists.

Now we come to the irony. See the problem with CPIM isn't that their leaders happened to be mostly uppercaste. BJP went from being overwhelmingly uppercaste to a much diverse party by taking their propaganda seriously. Their strength lies in the fact that they try to make their cadres actual ideological subjects unlike the “left”. I have written a post a long time ago to direct attention to Hindutva propaganda being spread by religious channels. The fascists, unlike the marxists, take their propaganda very seriously. The irony is that those whose propaganda requires serious work (i.e. marxists) have never taken their propaganda seriously while those whose propaganda doesn't require much intelligence (fascists) take it very seriously. There are so many ground cadres and passive supporters of the left who have joined the Hindutva brigade for this very reason.

What these moronic “Communists” like the CPIM people do not understand is that class conflict is inevitable. It doesn't care whether you have a legit revolutionary program or not. You can do n number of photo ops as you want but at the end of the day all you are going to do is going to make the work of people like us more dangerous. This is why I firmly believe that those who support communism should not fall for fake communists based on some news headlines and glamourous photography. Ask what their line is and whether it is reasonable under the current condition of our country.

There are lots of chaddi in my office. I am pretty sure they have no idea what a leftist is but according to them they are violent, emotional, support the underdog, hinder a nation's progress (cite usa/wesst are far ahead and here leftist oppose all projects and hate rich), hitler was a leftist as he target rich jews, left appease muslims/don't criticise them, bash and hate their own nation and religious background and things like that ......

How would you counter these or at least where to start or just let them be......

I am 26 and since the last few months, I have grown really comfortable with cutting people out after discovering boundaries when my prefrontal cortex got a system update. I now have a clearer sense of self and honestly it led to a journey of lone self actualisation. Which is a lot of fun and I highly recommend it 10/10.

Big words aside, at the risk of sounding desperate, man I need friends. And I cannot befriend people who worry more about property damage than the erosion of human rights or only recognise the retaliatory violence against the ruling class and not how the system is inherently violent every day in every manner conceivable.

I need yall commies to organise.

Please send in your applications. Yes this is an interview. To help you out, I will help connect you to people in your city and it would be more helpful if you sent your red flags and green flags that you look for in others, as you feel comfortable.

My location- Delhi.

My age- 26

What makes up my personality?

60% of it is just my cats and the new projects they make me embark on. I am currently building a cat wall for them. Wish me luck. I am really bad at electrical projects, sacrificed a switch board to a short circuit yesterday but I am OBSESSED with creating the perfect lighting in my home, especially after watching Heated Rivalry. I bet 150 dollars out of their 200 dollar budget just went into lamps.

I also love love hoyas and orchids and plan to grow them. I love to cook and meal prep and organising everything into lists and putting labels on everything is my primary source of dopamine. I make lists of everything.

Ideally I want to build a community to attend protests more effectively, educate people, and train to give medical help ( I am a doctor)

Did he just say that he follows Che Guevara, Yogi Adityanath and Modi at the same time. Like do these guys do even a little research before posting such reels.

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I’ll keep this short but want to understand how all of you are coping up with MNC culture in India. Though I’ve got nearly a decade experience working in Shared Services, I’m feeling stagnant and financially breaking me down. I would really appreciate if you can help with any insights on navigating the corporate world.
I’m posting it here because I need to understand a Left leaning or a communist’s perspective in worklife balance, promotions, power dynamics, pay disparity, etc.
If this helps, I’m a first gen woman working in my family and no mentors or guidance.

Ive been watching a lot of FinBol and other Anti revisionist YouTubers lately (Socialism for all - intensify class struggle, Marxism today etc) and I was wondering what y'all think about grover Furr since he's the premier source cited in most anti revisionist works defending Stalin's and pre kruschev Soviet legacy.

I really really really wanted to keep my mouth shut watching Rahul Gandhi using the protesters for his political gain so openly and obviously because that is secondary right now. But no these people really don't give a fuck about the system or correcting it they are only worried about their clout.

Do they really not know or they just care about their satta, which they're working for, and they cannot handle sharing the limelight with someone else? Like be fr.

I'm telling y'all. This congress situation is the same as 2014 situation where people were ready to elect the criminal behind 2002 just to get rid of congress somehow. Now we're making the same mistake. People are going to regret it. They do not care about the issues if they cannot use it for their own gain.

Does a public that is awakening and learning about how the system works not deserve a better government? Why are we trapped between these opportunists?

Why is grape the only prerequisite for being a BJP member?

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This is not a secret anti-bihari sentiment is always used for creating the upper and lower class argument in india and specifically these things are how it starts.

The video was posted across all ne states' subreddit and I do genuinely believe it is to foment xenophobias by the IT cell.

The video inherently has no issues of its own. The only issue is misogyny but that's uniformly present in all men in this country and should be criticised as such. It is not applied over to specifically NE women but all women in India afaik.

This characterization is bad and comrades in this sub would definitely understand why. I would request folks who organize here, who are from ne, please do challenge these stereotypical notions that they form using anecdotes.

I have given up on making north Indian subs follow this, they are reactionary to the boot. But I believe in my ne comrades understand the struggle against xenophobia. The way ne people are used as tokens when they are categorized as Indians and "non-indians" by the North Indian communities.

This kind of reactionary behaviour is saddening imo. And as a person from Bihar who has fought this stuff all my life I am well aware of these insults hurled at me.

Thanks for the attention to this post. ❤️

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Now I see Indian Youth Congress trying to reclaim Jantar Mantar in small numbers so it's not clear to me what they want to achieve with this