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I have heard about this criticism of the CPI(M) before.
Is there any specific statistics or articles that speak on this matter?
Because I know for a fact that there are materials on the CPI(M) website that mentions caste.
CASTE AND CLASS IN INDIAN POLITICS TODAY
and
CLASS STRUGGLE AND CASTE OPPRESSION : INTEGRAL STRATEGY OF THE LEFT .
A relatively more recent article on this subject: Caste and the CPI(M) in Tamil Nadu
This was from a quick online search I did months back when I was curious about the topic.
Do you believe that the party has not adequately addressed the issue despite all this?
Is it a case of not walking the talk?
I am very curious, because back in my home country, caste among Malaysian Indians is considered quite antiquated. From what I understand, and know, it is not as pervasive as in the past, and perhaps the nature of the political economy here destroyed any material basis for caste oppression specifically.
I'm just gonna address this. It is possible that that is true for Malaysian Indians (I don't know much about Malaysia so sorry about that) but emigrated diaspora still dabble in casteism sometimes. It is something that does not get much attention but bubbles up to the surface sometimes. For example: California accuses Cisco of job discrimination based on Indian employee's caste. The city of Seattle also banned caste discrimination recently though I don't know what prompted that.
Well the party just does namesake announcements like every party does , however the party higher ups are actually full of the upper caste people who think that solving class issues would solve caste based issues , they are more like liberals when it comes to most social policies i feel , may be economically left!