☭CommieWolf☆

All you have to do is look at the perceptions that it promotes. Trump gets a propaganda win for seemingly showing some strong opposition of some sort to Netanyahu, a figure most in the US hate. Meanwhile Netanyahu gets a propaganda win because any faltering or slowdowns in the current war for the Zionist side can be plausible explained as resulting from outside US pressure, rather than strategic defeats incurred from the resistance.

Every time any further evidence like this surfaces about the defeat of the Venezuelan revolution, it brings out either despair or denial in anyone who wishes it hadn’t come to this. I’m in the former. Fuck the USA.

Great, just jump to baselessly calling it racism when I point out clear concerns about the Indian left, all without addressing any of my points. You don’t know the first thing about me, I’m not a westerner, an “Orientalist”, or anything of the sort. I’m an internationalist Marxist from the global South who expects more from India and Indians as a global South country. And am appalled and frustrated at the backsliding towards fascism that the country has been going through for decades. If you are an Indian (which there’s nothing wrong with being, JFC), you shouldn’t assume the entire world is out to discriminate against you at the slightest implication that your genocide supporting, fascist government is not receiving anywhere near enough principled opposition, especially because of its complicity.

1. Because older people, (and not just exclusive to the west), are usually tired, disillusioned, and often more reactionary compared to younger people. Making them unlikely to take part in strike action or demonstrations. Look at the Palestine action around the world and it is most apparent. Millennials, Gen Z etc. are the ones who have the most to gain from socialism and the most to lose from the current trajectory of global capitalism, and are the overwhelmingly more likely group to be radicalized.

However in India this is somehow upside down. This has a disturbing implication that the older people are the LESS reactionary group, which means that in a few decades, India will be MORE fascist once they die out.

2. I am no expert, but I am simply speaking as an outsider who occasionally keeps up with news about Indian socialism, particularly the Naxal revolution etc. which incidentally does have a lot of youth involvement compared to these other actions, but they are being crushed and dealt several setbacks in just the past months by the Indian government.

As for the youth action you have listed, comparatively this is still shockingly little. I have yet to see anything on the level of even US and EU student protests against the genocide in Gaza, when India is arguably the second biggest ally to Israel after the US. That alone is so deeply troubling.

It seems quite disappointing that whenever I see pictures of these big marches in India with loads of red banners etc. It’s usually older adults and elderly. I’ve yet to see such action with a sizeable portion of the youth taking part, and that should be concerning. If the older generation is more radical than the youth, the already fascist and insane Indian society really has no hope left.