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An Indian Socialist FAQ

FAQ = Frequently Asked Questions. We as Revolutionary Socialists ☭ have to encounter a variety of questions from the common people under the influence of ignorance and/or ruling class propaganda. To aid socialists in their struggle, this page collects facts, evidence, and sources answering these questions. Anyone wishing to collaborate in this project is welcome to contact me :-).

What happened in 1991?(India's Market 'liberalisation')

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Why Reservation is a good thing

Q. Do upper caste dominate as the ruling class of India? Q. Are Dalits getting killed every two weeks in India due to explicit caste violence? Q: What is reservation? Q: Why reservation? Q: Were Reservations incorporated by the founding fathers of the constitution only for first 10 years? Q: Why give reservations on basis of caste? Q: Why not on basis of economic criterion? Q: Should there be a creamy layer criterion or not? Q: How long should the reservations continue? Q: Will not the reservations based on castes lead to divisions in the society? Q: Will not reservations affect the Merit? Q: Have existing reservations for SC/STs been effective or not? Reading materials and Resources: Q. Do upper caste dominate as the ruling class of India? Yes, upper castes dominate by a large margin in representation in the commanding heights of the Government, Economy, Judiciary and Media. Goverment Upper Castes disproportionately dominate the top positions in the government bureaucracy ...

Why Palestine is right? : why Israel has no right to exist.

Index: Basic Story Is Israel a "settler-colony"? Is Gaza a concentration camp? Are Israelis just refugees from the Holocaust? Did the Zionists steal Palestinian Land and properties? Is this a conflict between Jews and Muslims? Israel is a US puppet? What about Hamas? Isn't it just terrorists? They kill innocents? Is Israel an apartheid state? Did the Palestinians leave in 1947 so that Arab nations could wipe out Israel? Do Palestinians don't want "any" solution except the annihilation of Israel? Did the Arabs start the 6 day war to annihilate Israel because they hated them? Did Palestine exist? in 1900s? Did Israel exist, in 1919? Is there a future to this? Whose responsibility? Basic Story: Palestinians Muslims, Jews, Christians were living happily in Palestine. Then a bunch of Ashkenazi Jews (Zionists) from Europe came into Israel with a specific plan. The plan was to wipe out the Palestinians and create their own ethnostate. These Zionists started buildin...

On Inequality

Inequality https://www.oxfam.org/en/even-it/india-extreme-inequality-numbers - (2019) Absolute Poverty https://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-28923020070810 - According to this article, people living below 20rs a day as of 2008 is more than 78%. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/07/10/india-is-no-longer-home-to-the-largest-number-of-poor-people-in-the-world-nigeria-is/ - According to this, people living below 1.9$(or 120₹) is 5% as of 2018. https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/india-lifted-271-million-people-out-of-poverty-in-10-years-un/article28403303.ece# - According to this, India has lifted 271 million people out of poverty from 2006 to 2016. We have to conclude from the above 3 articles that there is some kind of manipulation of statistics by the world bank whose report appears predominantly in the business press . https://www.jagranjosh.com/general-knowledge/definition-poverty-poverty-line-in-india-1448357553-...