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Hello! I am a comrade born and there by stuck in the rural south of America. As a marxist, I am very isolated since I live in a very conservative part of the country. I happened upon this community yesterday, spent some time looking around, and joined today. I had no idea marxist social forums like this even existed, so I am just very excited to see a collection of fellow comrades online that isn't stuck and struggling with the censorship of facebook or other mainstream social sites. So this is just my hello, and a bit of where I come from (don't want to get too specific due to the history of organization like COINTELPRO) and just to say, I'm really glad to see a community like this exists! I had really thought under our current stage of capitalism something like this would be weeded out of existence. LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION!

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[–] COMHASH@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are southerners from US more conservative than Indians in the north ?

[–] ComradeFromSpace@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess I'm not aware of the conservative Indian demographic, you mean like natives? Good god seems a lot like shooting themselves in the foot. But I dunno, I've heard some pretty racey and extremely homophobic/transphobic shit out here. I went to school with a kid that openly believed inter-racial marriage should be punished, if that says anything.

[–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you mean like natives?

There’s only one India. Comrade COMHASH is referring to the country of India. 🇮🇳

[–] ComradeFromSpace@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ohhh okay. When he said north I thought they were referring to the Native population concentrated in the north part America. I guess for those that don't know here in America for a long time (generally white people) referred to Natives as Indians as well, and I was raised by uh... well let's say a family with some opinions on 'em, so it kinda didn't register for me they were asking about the country. (Yes, I know native american is the proper term, it's what I use but my southern american ears have kinda just gotten used to hearing it being talked about both ways growing up) But to answer the question on if southern americans being more conservative than the northern Indians in India, again, I'm not too familiar with the current demographic. I did some reading of WWII and Ghandi era resistance and what not but I'm not sure how the repressive right wing elements have evolved into the modern day as I just haven't kept up. I didn't know india even had a large conservative demographic, as I've last heard a few years ago I think now that India had one of the largest socialist / communist protest in history, thought i read that damn near a million or more people covered the streets in an ocean of red and black flags. But that's about my most recent knowledge of their internal political situation, if I'm being honest. I wouldn't mind being enlightened to whatever's going on there though, that's for sure!

[–] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ngl, I thought they meant indigenous at first too. In terms of current India, the current Modi government is pretty much fascist. The party had ties to the OG European fascists, and the current government has promoted anti-Islamic pogroms.

[–] ComradeFromSpace@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago

yeah I was unaware of this. Rough, I hope the people are able to persevere from it.