An Indian Socialist FAQ

Segregation: Muslims are Socially and Economically Marginalized/Segregated in India (Full Stats) -  Article Govt changing Names of Cities - NPR Debunkathons: Five charts that puncture the bogey of Muslim population growth - Article “Love-Jihad” on Kerala CM’s daughter - Article Islamophobic Violence: Violence against Muslims in India - Wikipedia Lynch Nation - Documentary - Link In last video before their deaths, Andhra family accuses two cops of harassment - Article Madhya Pradesh Police beats lawyer- “we thought you were Muslim” - Article Cow Lynchings - Wikipedia , Human Rights Watch Increase in Lynchings since Modi/BJP - HuffPost - Methodology Discrimination in school - anecdotes - Reddit 'Say Jai Shri Ram', Killers of Muslim Man in NCR Said, Police Deny Murder Was Hate Crime - Wire Muslim Student in Madhya Pradesh Arrested for Calling RSS Men 'Pigs' on Facebook - Wire - while BJP politician Babita Phogat called Jamaatis ‘pigs’ Sanghis manufacturing Islamophobia t...

Yes, the left has important things to learn from Identity Politics. But Liberal Bourgeois Identity Politics is crap. We’d be able to see a new universalism if these rigid divisions between so-called identity categories like race and gender and the category of class were overcome in a real, practical movement. If we were able to see organizations emerge and make real, concrete change in which they bridge those gaps — in which it would become impossible to say that “this is a white organization” or “this is a male-dominated organization” — it would necessarily involve challenging economic inequality and the class structures of American society. For a movement to arise, which tackled the fundamental structures of inequality, domination, and exploitation in American society in such a way that identity as a force of division could not exist — that would be a real universal moment.              - Asad Haider   HOW IDENTITY POLITICS HAS DIVIDED THE ...

Articles: So you want to ally with the Dalit Rights Movement? - Round Table India Relevant Books/Booklets: 1. Buddha or Karl Marx - Ambedkar 2. Caste Question in India - Anuradha Ghandy -  Link 3. India and Communism - B R Ambedkar - Introduction by Anand Teltumbde 4. Nine Decades Of Marxism In The Land Of Brahminism - S.K.Biswas 5. Ear to the Ground Writings on Class and Caste - K. Balagopal 6. Caste Annihilation Booklet - CPI (ML) Red Star - Link 7. Caste Question and Marxism - Abhinav Sinha

1. Economic Inequality/Landlord-ism/Capitalism Land Redistribution. Collectivization. Co-operatives. Nationalization. 2. Social inequality/Brahmanism/Patriarchy Cultural Revolution. Affirmative action(Reservation) in a nationalized Cultural Industry. Social Justice Education. Minority Leadership at all levels of the Hierarchy. Intersectional (Bahujan Feminist) Affinity Organizations with full authority on Issues. Caste-based Surnames Banned. 3. Communalism/Hindutva/Islamophobia Cultural Revolution. Universalist Education. Affinity Groups and Minority Leadership. 4. Neo-liberalism/Privatization Nationalization. Direct Democracy and Planning. 5. Imperialism, Corporate Plunder and Assault on Adivasis Adivasi Nationhood. Socialist Economic Planning under Adivasi Leadership. 6. Colonization of Kashmir, North-East and Adivasis Plebiscite. Right to self-determination. 7. Climate Change/Environmental Destruction Scientific Economic Planning, Direct Democracy and Decentralization. Focus on Sust...

 Why Socialism? 1. Inequality, Exploitation & Class Struggle 2. Climate Change, Environmental Externalities and Limits on Capitalist Development 3. Capitalist Crisis, Instability & Superstructural Degradation 4. Surplus Value, Imperialism, Manufacturing Consent 5. Alternative - Socialist Growth Why Capitalism? 1. Growth 2. Stability & Reform

  What is Marxism? This answer is intended for people looking into Marxism for the first time, and is not intended as a substitute for a thorough study of Marxist writings, biographies and group discussions. According to  Lenin , leader of the Russian Revolution, there are  Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism : materialist philosophy, critique of political economy and socialist politics. Marx's philosophy . Just at the beginning of his political career, the following two works were written by  Karl Marx , the founder of modern communism: Theses on Feuerbach , Marx's philosophy in eleven short points. Idealism and Materialism  from  The German Ideology , an outline of Marx's approach to history. 35 years later,  Engels , Marx's life-long collaborator, wrote  Socialism: Utopian and Scientific  in an effort to popularise Marx's ideas. Chapter one:  Utopian Socialism . An outline of Marx's critique of utopian socialism. Chapte...

What do you mean by Capitalism? Were the 1991 reforms responsible for India's increased growth rate? Has the increased growth rate benefited everybody, especially India's poor? What is the reality of China's growth story? What really happened in 1991? What do you mean by Capitalism? Capitalism is an economic system characterized by the existence of a market and private property. According to this, India was a capitalist country before and after the 1991 reforms. De-regulation and privatization are characteristic of a particular kind of Capitalism called a Neoliberal/Free-Market Capitalism, not Capitalism in general. Infact, after World War 2, the most popular form of Capitalism was Keynesian Capitalism characterized by extensive public investment and regulation. This changed around the 1970s when US and UK shifted to neoliberal capitalism under the leadership of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Is free-market capitalism better than keynesian capitalism? No. Does free-ma...