While the communist party of India (marxist) , is not in power as of now , they have had history of winning elections, however there is a fatal flaw in their ideology , when it comes to fighting against opperession , while they agree upon existence of class disparity and want to work on the goal of removing it , the oldschool communists do not recognise caste system. For those who are not aware , caste system is a problem specific to indian subcontinent , it is like a dominant class of people who are called the upper castes ( tho in minority) , had deprived the lower castes , into not allowing them to get educated or get any other work that they were assigned at birth , by the family name they were born in . That kept the lower castes poor and deprived for ages. The CPI(M) is mostly flooded with the upper caste and do not recognise this systemetic opperssion that has been in place since ages !

  • Neptium@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 years ago

    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.

  • PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    So the caste system in India absolutely exists. But outside of making discrimination based on caste illegal, I’m not sure how the Communist Party of India is supposed to respond? Push for class/caste solidarity, but otherwise engaging with the caste system is simply reinforcing it.

  • forcequit [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 years ago

    can you speak more to this, or point me to more material on the continuation of caste systems? I’m aware dhalits are still subject to discrimination, but I know very little about the system and contemporary implications

    • jungekatz [comrade/them, undecided]@hexbear.netOP
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      3 years ago

      Well even to this day the caste system exists in implicit or explicit forms , when you see that the jobs those are for instance a jaintor job , or a person cleaning bathroom , cutting hair , etc they are all seen as lower caste , some of them are even considered untouchable, people would not allow them to get a simple job as well , for instance they wont be allowed to get a domestic helper job either , and tho this is not explicit , this is implicit, even if few of them are ablet to come out of the toxic system, and they make some money , society still has contempt and stigma towards them, they arent allowed to rent house easily , are called names , if they get into educational institute they are bullied , many of them even got killed in recent years for doing something normal , like wearing a good wedding dress coz an upper caste didnt like it !