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ok yeah social democrats in the global south are generally better than those in the global north, but this party was literally just cheering on India's attempt to start a war with Pakistan. i wouldn't call national chauvinists of any kind "communists", and the policies of this party are nothing more than developmentalism (which is better than the immediate alternative for sure but falls way short of what's needed)
i'd rather be led by these guys than the BJP don't get me wrong but can we stop watering down the ideological content of "communism" and start taking a more critical attitude. there's an actual communist insurgency in India going on right now and they desperately need international attention.
Nothing will be good enough for you westerners when India’s concerned.
Do you actually expect any communist movement in any place that’s not a historical imperial power to abandon any form of national identity and chauvinism so to speak? Like, you only think Maoist insurgents who are funded by China are real communists in one of the poorest nations on earth
yeah, when it comes to ethno-religious conflict that traces its origins back to arbitrary borders drawn by the British, I expect a communist organisation to not start cheerleading one or the other side. Srry if the standard established by Lenin and the Bolsheviks during WW1 is too high for you to meet. Beating on Hindutva war drums is very obviously not the same as progressive, liberationist nationalism.
no but they're a good example of a substantially better line. also shut the fuck up lol they're not "funded by China" you imbecile
There are around 200 million Muslims living in India, stop looking at this conflict purely from an ethnoreligious lens especially when condemning communist parties in the country. I’m not saying their stance on Pakistan is a good thing but pull back on the browbeating
jerkoff motion nobody said it was a bad thing, calm your ass