AJ

Leftist, Introvert , Egalitarian

[AJ @bryt4]

only optics

nothing else

[Vijay Thottathil @vijaythottathil]

That’s our CM ❤️❤️

[AJ @bryt4]

what joy without getting followers count reward

[MoonPay 🟣 @moonpay]

@darkohh enjoy!

[V P Sanu @VP_Sanu]

VD Menon Satheesan govt is reportedly buying Cellebrite's Inseyets, phone-cracking tech from an Israeli firm whose tools have been used notoriously against journalists & protesters abroad.

Can Congress party & IUML bother to explain why the govt is making a deal with zionists?

[AJ @bryt4]

@Erhnyasar @flop_labs @CryptoHayes any guide to setup?

[AJ @bryt4]

that is the worst take i have ever seen on gender and caste

[Chetan Kumar Ahimsa / ಚೇತನ್ ಅಹಿಂಸಾ @ChetanAhimsa]

We cant annihilate gender (identity); must annihilate unequal access to power-resources built on gender & patriarchy

We cant annihilate caste (identity); must annihilate unequal access to power-resources built on caste & Brahminism

Annihilate unequal, unjust system—not identity

[Tired Peasant @HorrorGorl]

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[AJ @bryt4]

representation and tokenism is not ideology of communism

its the emancipation of the masses

[RAHUL @RahulSeeker]

Pic: 1st Polit Bureau CPI(M) 1964.

It took 58 yrs for a Dalit, Dr. Ram Chandra Dome to enter this elite club. In 1977 when Jyoti Basu formed Govt in Bengal, initially it didn't have a single Dalit Minister. However Kanti Biswas was appointed later.

S Gurumurthy once claimed between the 1977-1982 Bengal Govt - Brahmin 35%, Kayastha 31% & Vaishya 23%, Dalit 1.5% constituted in Jyoti Basu's first Ministry. Though I cannot accept this claim at face value without checking it, but also cannot reject it outright. As a Bengali myself, I have an understanding of the Bangali Bhadralok society.

Meanwhile, allover India when the Scheduled Caste representation in the governing bodies were increasing, bhadralok Jyoti Basu literally choked this idea of rightful representation of the marginalised under the garb of Communists don't believe in caste and Bengalis don't follow caste logic. Between 1977 to 2011 the Left Front ministries had miniscule number of Dalit Ministers.

Ironically, West Bengal shares one of the highest percentage of Schedule Caste ~24% in India. Is their condition drastically different from other states in the country? The data says otherwise.

Earlier Bengal had substantial Dalit movement. In fact, one of earliest Dalit protest movement against the Upper Caste tyranny in India emerged in Bengal first (Namasudra Movement - 1872).

Then partition happened. While the Congress was always dominated by UC leaders, the left movement dominated by UC leaders, later took control over every social institutions, and turned Bengal into a 'Party Society'. Every caste question subsumed into Class. And this is same even today.

Famously during Mandal Commission Jyoti Basu said "There were only two castes in West Bengal, the rich and the poor.”

Precisely incorrect. Just one example, in Bengal intra-caste marriage is 90.6%, more than the national avg. (Census 2011).
The Education disparity also telling....

So, before questioning or attacking Dr Ambedkar, which the left has been doing since he was alive, should introspect first, leaving aside what Dr Ambedkar said or practiced. Hope, the top leadership is doing it already.

* Among the 62 Polit Bureau members since its formation, the first woman member was Brinda Karat (2005). 41 years after the Polit Bureau formed. Till date, only four women have been represented in the Polit Bureau. Brinda Karat, Subhashini Ali, Mariam Dhawale and U. Vasuki. 🙏🏾

[Ennnnnn2_666 @666_Ennnnnn2]

You can hate EMS, Pinarayi, Dipankar or whoever you want. But stop erasing the thoudands of Dalit and OBC comrades who keep these parties at the grassroot levels. Calling Marxist parties "savarna" is an insult to their political labour.

[AJ @bryt4]

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[AJ @bryt4]

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[AJ @bryt4]

@sun_at_last Sanghi telling me about learning 🤣🤣

[AJ @bryt4]

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[AJ @bryt4]

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[AJ @bryt4]

@grok @sun_at_last @rushicrypto @grok define extreme poverty in Indian statistics and how it stand when compared to other countries

[AJ @bryt4]

@grok @sun_at_last @rushicrypto @grok define inequality in terms of consumption GINI and income GINI
and its fallacies

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[zellie @zellieimani]

Toni Morrison & James Baldwin (France, 1970s)

[Neha @neha_aisa]

Here is the entire video of the exchange, an incomplete version of which is being circulated to determine my views on Ambedkarite politics and anti-caste struggles. I hope you will listen to the entire section.

Issuing a clarification because misrepresentation must never weaken the united fight.

The question being asked was how come certain 'Ambedkarite' or other parties win elections when you don't when both of these are said to represent marginalised groups?
Below is an attempt to explain my answer including the section which was omitted from the clip in circulation.

-- Several bourgeois parties claim to be anti-caste, celebrate Ambedkar and even call themselves Ambedkarite. They invoke Ambedkar during election campaigns yet seldom do they seem to be working towards building movements on Ambedkarite principles or serve the interest of the socially marginalised. Rather, often they appear to be working with forces that are champions of the same casteist and Manuvadi system. This is also exactly why they will not take a stand for the implementation of UGC Equity Regulation or oppose EWS Reservations amongst others because taking an anti-caste stand on these issues would cost them their elections. I don’t see how electoral successes of such parties further the cause of the marginalised sections of society

-- On the other hand, there are such parties/forces who actually strengthen the anti-caste politics by mobilising the marginalised into mass movements on the ground. They are sometimes even successful in causing breaks in history by tilting the social balance of power. In such moments, genuine representatives of anti-caste struggles get elected to the parliament who then use the institution to effectively empower the socially marginalised sections.

-- Also, answering the question on the Left's performance in Parliamentary elections:
I accept that the Left can do much better in this respect. But how do we define ‘better’? ‘Doing better’ is often interpreted as winning more seats in the parliamentary elections. But I strongly believe that being able to organise and mobilise the marginalised sections and working classes as a political force in mass movements on their own issues and achieving successes in those movements is where we need to do ‘better’. If the left does this better, electoral success that would actually be effective will follow. And, without such movements and mobilisations, no amount of electoral success will bring about any substantial change.
In this sense, the contradiction today isn’t between the ‘left’ and ‘ambedkarites’ but between those who call themselves representatives of the marginalised or the working class but are singularly focussed on winning elections and those who give primacy to political movements and see electoral successes as just a part of it. That is why, on campuses and in society at large, we see the movement-oriented Ambedkarite and Left groups fighting together and organising mass movements and raising the slogan of Jai Bheem together.

My aim in this message is to clarify my attempt to reflect upon the limitations of Left-Ambedkarite politics today and how those limitations are often wrongly conceived. Left and Ambedkarite political principles are foundational to my politics, and I don’t see either as contradictory or antagonistic and, hence, I had no intention to hold one as superior to the other. My reflections were those of an insider, and I would take all expressions of disagreement from our Ambedkarite-left comrades in the spirit of serious discussion.