I'm 19 and I live in India.I'm from a conservative hindu family.India is pretty socialist, a lot of oil and gas,electricity,transportation is owned by the government. My schooling was free,my medicines were free and my college costs around 1000$ as semester. I study Physics and EE. I'm worried about the direction my country is taking towards right-wing politics and liberalism. What do you think of that and what do you suggest I do?
I plan to join the Commie party next year.
What do you think about the Naxalites?
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Some more questions - Do they have any popular support in India or are they just a totally fringe movement? Do you think there is any chance of them seizing power?
The great challenge is encouraging development without dependency…
Unless that one hypergreen game with its pessimistic tech timelines was onto something, in which case what India needs is EXPUNGE COAL USAGE.
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I guess you should joining the communist party (or the one with most potential) and focus on promoting Kerala, India still has large illiteracy rate, and is still very rural. What it needs is massive literacy campaign and, urbanization and industrialisation
Not OP but they are purely regional group, mostly created by regional tensions. Indian leftism is represent by two parties that, in the past, were influenced by the Soviet and Chinese example respectively. IDK what happened to them now.
There are Left wing strongholds like Kerala, I believe. And wasn't there a huge strike recently? Of course, reactionary forces have bigger mass on paper, but, ultimately, they are will be thrown in disarray when a crisis hits, while the workers in India are present and organized.
India needs to leverage its strengths as much as it can. There will be a dramatic economic crisis soon enough. Organize, India still has somme communal social organization although it is weakened.
You will need to be knowledgeable in philosophy and history to debunk the porky sophistry and raise to a level of credibility etc.
India needs to have popular education set up asap. The masses will educate themselves and in this way they will be freed.
Read about Spinoza, Marx, read about your own history and culture, reject imperialist garbage neolib ideology as much as you can.
India needs atoms for peace and a marxist-leninst party in power.
It also needs to properly industrialize, too much subsistence agriculture as it is.
Also fuck the Hindus.
Thats about european prices but considering you make much less money thats a lot, man.
leverage your countries strengths, your size, your resources, your population, and dont give in to imperialism.
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lol, Fate of the World? I loved that game.
They're Maoists and they control a large portion of land and I don't know much about them,because India doesnt really have a free press,they're constantly willified and are said to be funded and armed by China. They're pretty big,but Army has been heavily deployed to deter them so idk
It's in our constitution mate
I plan to do that over summer. Indians more or less hate imperialism,so no worries there
Agreed. My dad actually works in the National Atomic Power corporation and I have interacted with people from the former Soviet Union,who come there
I'm Hindu and Hindus started the communist party.
Hinduism generally tolerant and liberal.We have this paramilitary group called RSS,they're the ones promoting Hindu Supremacy and other B.S.
So is the BJP privatizing state owned assets and introducing neoliberalism or are they more social fascist?
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What are your thoughts on the Kashmir issue?
Not OP.
It is too good of an issue to be solved soon. It's strategic position both as being cross roads between three countries and being in pathway of one of major river of Pakistan makes it ripe for all parties to get the bigger piece of the pie.
Pakistan will keep sending non-state actors to foment trouble in it's Soviet-Afghan war 2 electric boogaloo doctrine while India is forced to carry on tougher crackdown sto maintain it's grip in the valley. China will make sure that Pakistan get away with everything for CPEC project, a crucial piece it's OBBR initiative.
OBOR, I mean.
Is the conflict going to escalate? Pls dont nuke each other
India's nuclear doctrine has two tenants -
1. No first use against any nuclear armed country
2. Prohibition of any usage of nukes against non-nuclear countries
Which is despite being slapped with sanctions for Pokhran 2 in 1998, India has maintainted a reputation of a peaceful country. Which is why despite never being signatory of NPT and CTBT, USA did a nuclear deal with India in 2009 and has secured membership in Missile Technology Control Regime. However it failed to gain a chair at Nuclear Suppliers group thanks to China who are like "well why not include Pakistan too in it you know".
Regarding Pakistan, well their doctrine is to develop many tactical nukes which they will use to deter the numerical superiority of Indian armed forces in case of a war. They even have a MIRV missile - Abadeel just to carry multiple nuclear warheads. Due to it being hotbed of islamic terrorism, USA and China has to sustain this state so the nukes don't fall in hands of terrorists.
In 1999 they actually had nukes ready near Line of Control(LoC) when Kargil conflict was going on.
Thus given the current global world order, I don't think the conflict is going to escalate. It will remain a game of cat and mouse in the foreseeable future.