Two abhorrent fascisms literally modernity without human rights, thanks for calling it out. Israel is a more extreme apartheid version of the caste based Indian system toward which Modi is being pushed willingly and democratically by RSS. Both involve systemic discrimination and mobility restrictions but India’s isn’t codified like Israel. The RSS see themselves as settler colonialists displacing Adivasi native tribal lands and resources as inheritors of the British colonialism’s feudal origin and so have their own Palestinians in a manner of speaking displaced from the courts through lack of resources primarily money and Indians that don’t care. The difference is Adivasi do get a rare hearing and even rarer justice while Palestinians are outside the courts in military occupation. Both systems are growning more monstrous with technology.
Compared to the Palestinians, adivasis get a lot from the Indian state. They have reserved seats in state legislatures and the parliament, quotas in all state-run educational institutions, quotas in government jobs, and subsidised food and cooking gas. Of course, I am not saying this to put them down just saying that compared to the Palestinians, the adivasis get a helping hand from the Indian state.
Modi is being pushed willingly and democratically by RSS
Modi has always been a narcissist ideologue. He has been an RSS worker since childhood. While the RSS has always been genocidal, it has been very patient with its project that began all the way back in 1925. Modi has accelerated that project into the tenth gear since he first came to power nationally in 2014. It’s less RSS pushing him and more him accelerating the genocidal RSS project.
India is an increasingly sick country, with upper caste Hindus firmly in control of social, economic and political narratives. The bourgeoisie are mostly a despicable lot, eager to institute a hyper national capitalist hellscape in their bid for superpower status.
People might find it ironical that a country that endured brutal colonisation for about two centuries should side with a settler colonial society instead of the oppressed, but India has never been truly decolonised. It has been a brutal apartheid state since at least 2000 BC or so, the exploitative extraction aimed at low caste Hindus, the "untouchables" and the indigineous people of the soil (also called Adivasis).
The British occupation of India was simply another chapter in the long and sordid history of apartheid India. Infact, upper caste Hindus colluded with the British to man the levers of colonial power on their behalf, the reason why the British could control such a large region with miniscule numbers of their compatriots relocating there.
The Nehruvian view of the Third world being a bulwark against neo colonial practices is denigrated and denounced in India these days. Nehru is cast as a sly,degenerate, pusillanimous Hinduphobe. Those halcyon days when India supported the right of Palestinians to self determination are long gone. The upper caste bigots could be kept at bay only for a short amount of time, their recrudescence inevitable. The masters don't brook any erosion of their power; they always reclaim it. And so they did, with the near simultaneous emergence of a liberalised economy benefitting the few and the BJP as a force in national politics not mere coincidence.
One might wonder why the lower castes don't band together to end this state of affairs. Why has this system endured for so long? Its an authoritarian system that enjoys the sanction of "religion". And the sway of religion in India cannot be overstated. Hinduism isn't a religion in the conventional sense, its adherents touting it as a "way of life". It indeed is. This "way of life" lauds, prescribes and perpetuates the most brutal form of social stratification, discrimination and exploitation ever devised. And when the gloss of religion sanctifies this system, the high priests concocting sophisticated sounding metaphysical balderdash in the obscure language of Sanskrit, it exerts a vice like grip on the psyche of Hindu society. Therefore the conviction of the greatest of Indian men, Dr.B.R. Ambedkar, that the caste system had to be annihilated through the destruction and debunking of Hindu shastras (scriptures) for Indian society to be really free to blossom. Until such time India will remain a brutal state with sympathies for others of its ilk.
Indian liberals are the worst liberals anywhere in the world. They are the most feckless, the most degenerate, the most vapid, the most vacuous lot. The sounds from their mouths and backsides are hard to differentiate.
The charge against Nehru of being a Hinduphobe is laughable. Perry Anderson has done a good job of highlighting how steeped he was in Hindu mythology and how his Hindu supremacist views a lot of the Congress decision making pre- and post-independence.
While Ambedkar was laudable, he could have done a better job with the Constitution, especially by ridding it of all too obvious Hindu confessionalism.
Two abhorrent fascisms literally modernity without human rights, thanks for calling it out. Israel is a more extreme apartheid version of the caste based Indian system toward which Modi is being pushed willingly and democratically by RSS. Both involve systemic discrimination and mobility restrictions but India’s isn’t codified like Israel. The RSS see themselves as settler colonialists displacing Adivasi native tribal lands and resources as inheritors of the British colonialism’s feudal origin and so have their own Palestinians in a manner of speaking displaced from the courts through lack of resources primarily money and Indians that don’t care. The difference is Adivasi do get a rare hearing and even rarer justice while Palestinians are outside the courts in military occupation. Both systems are growning more monstrous with technology.
Compared to the Palestinians, adivasis get a lot from the Indian state. They have reserved seats in state legislatures and the parliament, quotas in all state-run educational institutions, quotas in government jobs, and subsidised food and cooking gas. Of course, I am not saying this to put them down just saying that compared to the Palestinians, the adivasis get a helping hand from the Indian state.
Modi is being pushed willingly and democratically by RSS
Modi has always been a narcissist ideologue. He has been an RSS worker since childhood. While the RSS has always been genocidal, it has been very patient with its project that began all the way back in 1925. Modi has accelerated that project into the tenth gear since he first came to power nationally in 2014. It’s less RSS pushing him and more him accelerating the genocidal RSS project.
India is an increasingly sick country, with upper caste Hindus firmly in control of social, economic and political narratives. The bourgeoisie are mostly a despicable lot, eager to institute a hyper national capitalist hellscape in their bid for superpower status.
People might find it ironical that a country that endured brutal colonisation for about two centuries should side with a settler colonial society instead of the oppressed, but India has never been truly decolonised. It has been a brutal apartheid state since at least 2000 BC or so, the exploitative extraction aimed at low caste Hindus, the "untouchables" and the indigineous people of the soil (also called Adivasis).
The British occupation of India was simply another chapter in the long and sordid history of apartheid India. Infact, upper caste Hindus colluded with the British to man the levers of colonial power on their behalf, the reason why the British could control such a large region with miniscule numbers of their compatriots relocating there.
The Nehruvian view of the Third world being a bulwark against neo colonial practices is denigrated and denounced in India these days. Nehru is cast as a sly,degenerate, pusillanimous Hinduphobe. Those halcyon days when India supported the right of Palestinians to self determination are long gone. The upper caste bigots could be kept at bay only for a short amount of time, their recrudescence inevitable. The masters don't brook any erosion of their power; they always reclaim it. And so they did, with the near simultaneous emergence of a liberalised economy benefitting the few and the BJP as a force in national politics not mere coincidence.
One might wonder why the lower castes don't band together to end this state of affairs. Why has this system endured for so long? Its an authoritarian system that enjoys the sanction of "religion". And the sway of religion in India cannot be overstated. Hinduism isn't a religion in the conventional sense, its adherents touting it as a "way of life". It indeed is. This "way of life" lauds, prescribes and perpetuates the most brutal form of social stratification, discrimination and exploitation ever devised. And when the gloss of religion sanctifies this system, the high priests concocting sophisticated sounding metaphysical balderdash in the obscure language of Sanskrit, it exerts a vice like grip on the psyche of Hindu society. Therefore the conviction of the greatest of Indian men, Dr.B.R. Ambedkar, that the caste system had to be annihilated through the destruction and debunking of Hindu shastras (scriptures) for Indian society to be really free to blossom. Until such time India will remain a brutal state with sympathies for others of its ilk.
Indian liberals are the worst liberals anywhere in the world. They are the most feckless, the most degenerate, the most vapid, the most vacuous lot. The sounds from their mouths and backsides are hard to differentiate.
The charge against Nehru of being a Hinduphobe is laughable. Perry Anderson has done a good job of highlighting how steeped he was in Hindu mythology and how his Hindu supremacist views a lot of the Congress decision making pre- and post-independence.
While Ambedkar was laudable, he could have done a better job with the Constitution, especially by ridding it of all too obvious Hindu confessionalism.