Aryaman

third-world political economy & stratification. PhDing.

[Aryaman @Aryomon]

@tongzhi_mate @grundrza @IolaElla Pretty sure its coming out as a book soon-ish!

[Aryaman @Aryomon]

@RashmanTheHorse It is bleak, and sometimes hoping for some terrible crises to shake things up feels like the only way out... but theres a need to seriously study and adopt their mass tactics + put forward a politics that stands beyond just a reaction to the BJP

[Aryaman @Aryomon]

Every election cycle in India, the only rationale that some find for BJP's successes are that the elections are rigged.

If we refuse to accept the obvious fact that hundreds of millions of people have been inculcated into the Hindutva mass party, there is little hope im afraid.

[cigarchand @sifarchand]

tamil nadu has its own version of the khaldunian civilisational cycle where an actor launches a party, becomes CM, passes it on to successors who are fulltime politicians.
the decadent dynasty is then defeated by the next steppe army (kollywood fandom) w superior asabiyyah

[Aryaman @Aryomon]

@talalasadist Sadly I think he has far more clout than deserved within the subcontinent too...

[sister beast ⚢ @postergf420]

how posting feels

[Aryaman @Aryomon]

@RashmanTheHorse @tongzhi_mate It has been bewildering for me to witness just how little PhD students and even professors in the social sciences actually read. Even journal articles are mostly skimmed through, forget books.

[Aryaman @Aryomon]

Is raising the price of car or burger by 30% the only way to make the average American care about the untold destruction wrought by their government?

[Aryaman @Aryomon]

India really is *the* semi-periphery today, and such comparisons undersell the actual degree of disparity. In real terms, 100s of millions live in conditions worse than "Sub-Saharan Africa", while the wealthiest enjoy privileges that their western counterparts could only dream of

[Soutik Biswas @soutikBBC]

‘India is like three countries stacked in an economic ladder: 25m live in ‘Australia’-like affluence, ~200m in a ‘Philippines’-style service economy, while the rest struggle in conditions closer to sub-Saharan ‘Africa’. https://t.co/KP5MyGm4QT

[Aryaman @Aryomon]

There could hardly be a better showcase of how meaningless 'settler colonialism' has become within some academic circles, since it can seemingly be utilized for just about any ethnic or national movement that has ever existed

[goldiespot @goldosuri]

interconnections between Manipur, Assam, Nagaland and Kashmir can be explored. this research may be, in fact, emergent.

[Aryaman @Aryomon]

While terrifying in some ways, the oil-induced rationing occurring everywhere is possibly the clearest showcase of the fragility of the capitalist world-economy and its commodity chains

[Gunjan / مہوش @GunjanHassan]

The commercial cylinder supply has been suspended till now further notice in Delhi
#gasshortage
#iranwar

[Aryaman @Aryomon]

The whole 'declining hegemon' shtick is meaningless if the US and its allies can kidnap and assassinate heads of states at free will, facing no consequences

[kev joon @never_oppressed]

A war with Iran will be a morally defining crisis of this era. Untold lives will be destroyed. Innocent lives. There won’t be peace and prosperity. There will be death and despair. And in years, many will look back and wonder why.

[Aryaman @Aryomon]

@ShinMarginalScr Indonesia wasn't even special, pretty much every government present presided over some truly horrific shit to their respective minorities

[Kakababu's Exile in England 🇵🇸🍁 @ShinMarginalScr]

It's all a bit damning when you know that the Bandung Conference, that shining light of Third World solidarity and anticolonial spirit or whatever; was for Indonesia, pretty much about shoring up support for the annexation of West Papua.

[Aryaman @Aryomon]

I love X, the everything app. Not only can you write the worst analysis of Indian political economy ever, you can also confidently claim that Kerala (~30% Muslim) is not more than 2-3% Muslim because you have a child's understanding of religion in South Asia

[Aryaman @Aryomon]

@ClimateGaliev Ooo will check out, ty 🫡

[Aryaman @Aryomon]

@AmadholesLostre That's even less acknowledged lol

[Aryaman @Aryomon]

US-backed, CIA-planned, yes, but the murder of a million people was carried out through your neighbors and relatives.

It's a lot easier to blame the CIA than to reckon with your society's rotten past though.

[한승철 @croixsanct]

The Jakarta Method wasn't created by the Indonesians, take a closer look at the book cover. It was US-backed genocide through the CIA in 1965. The same vile method applies to the Gwangju Uprising, Jeju Uprising, and Bodo League massacre that happened in your country as well, no?

[Aryaman @Aryomon]

@sswffll The fact that the CIA was the partner-in-crime does not change the fact that tens of thousands of Indonesians, civilians included, were eager and ready to massacre their political opponents when provided a chance.