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The biggest flaw of Comminist Party of India (Marxist) (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 year ago by jungekatz@hexbear.net to c/communism@lemmygrad.ml
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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 !

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[–] jungekatz@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In a country like india , where casteism is high, even if there is class consciousness among the masses , I dont think the stigma against castes will go ! That way a certain section of the society will always be kept deprived! And while all bjp does is just for the namesake. No one is asking cpim to do a namesake show or elect all obc leaders for the sake of it , however along with class , caste consciousness shall be adopted in caste of india , else there is no way we can acchieve class equality. If you call it identity politics then you are talking like a liberal who calls dalit issues when asking for lgbt rights as identity politics and intersectionality bad. Pointint queer issues out , most of the prominent lgbt india activists are actually right winger ( unfortunately so) , and I know that coz I am queer , so will the party also say , how many queer people supported so and so thing ! When aiming to make an equal society we need to check all boxes of equality wherever possible !

[–] comvedml@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

talking about LGBT rights then waving Azov battalion flag is as bad as BJP doing namesake caste affirmative movements. Most identity politics of bahujans falls into this category. Most leftist bahujans who talk about Ambedkar and so on , don't want to admit that Ambedkar himself was a anti communist and he has nothing to do with India's left politics. Even within the lower caste people or dalits they have inter caste issues and this caste problem cannot go away by mere admitting dalits into politburo and your point that is the biggest flaw of CPIM. There are liberals who talks about why CPIM doesn't have more females if it represents equality among sexes. These are bourgeois talking points and btw you are only repeating those talking points here by slandering CPIM who fought against casteism for decades and also for tribal rights . What did ambedkarites achieve for the whole population ?