r/IndianLeft

In the last few days, much has been discussed about the CJP (Cockroach Janata party). We as Communists have been criticised that we are 'puranitical' for rejecting the movement, while others are on the fence on how they should view The CJP. Some are optimistic, some thinks it's the CIA, some others allege it's AAP.

To me, CJP is nothing more than an online page with some followers, there are people who think that CJP is 'revolutionary' just because it dares to criticise and because the younger people are associated with it.

On the front of critique, The CJP has only a single popular issue at best. The NEET paper leak and demanding resignation of The education minister.

But what's the use of it? One incompetent man would be replaced by another (If the government is feeling generous with an incompetent women perhaps to earn "naari shakti" points.) it will not change the fundamentally broken system of education.

On the front of association, The 'youth' is not class. Generations contrary to popular belief are not uniform. The interests of a 'youth' who bought the paper for lakhs is very different from the 'youth' who's preparation and coaching fees got wasted. Simply speaking there is no class or caste basis for CJP which means it will quickly turn into circlejerk for the urban upper caste youth.

Lastly, internet activism like CJP might achieve followers and might be convinient, but there could be no social progress without ground presence.

Still there is much to learn from this "bourgeois" movement.

For one the youth of our country are slowly realsing that their future is precarious and are developing consciousness. Sure its the urban youth but when your country's most privileged start to realise, it's an indication that things are not going well for capital.

There is also resistence to this Simple CJP movement as well. From those same 'middle class' and 'educated' who think the movement is too 'political' for their tastes.

One thing i want to make clear by the above line is that our country is in a very weird Position. While the failure and decay of the system is touching the privileged, they are to conscious about losing their privilege and too prejudiced to do anything aside from occasionally criticise the matters which affect them.

Any social movement which targets them is bound to fail.

On the other the marginalised sections of the population living in smaller towns and cities are probably angry with dissatisfaction too, but nobody has made any party are program which addresses their issues in a radical way.

Here is where there is the Most potential.

A mirror to the independence movement more than a century ago.

i will try to keep this short and succint. i am disgusted by the state of our country, particularly as i'm watching my home state burn because of the government's negligence. i was also asking a friend if there's any media house/outlet that can actually be trusted nowadays, and she said there are none.

i think our news pieces, policies, social media posts, and even daily conversations are being obscured by so much propoganda that nothing can or should be taken at face value. i want to learn how to engage more critically with whatever i'm seeing around me.

therefore please guide me on how to be able to see "truth" or subtext. what reliable sources can i use to learn about our country's political history? (books, documentaries, posts, etc). i want to be able to understand topics like electoral politics and why there is no such thing as genuine elections anymore in our country, for instance.

please be kind, as i am genuinely trying to understand this better! and if this is the wrong subreddit, please direct me to the correct one. i'll reroute right away. Thank you very much!

Other than this subreddit, librandu, and indiameme, all the subreddits seem to be in majority support of BJP. Not matter what Modi or BJP does, they defend it. Even my state (AP) subreddit is filled to the brim with BJP circlejerk.

If you look at American subreddits, they are usually quite progressive. Many American redditors even say that Reddit has a progressive bias and most people outside are more conservative than we think.

Reddit is niche and limited to even educated, English-speaking sector of India, let alone the other parts. So I figured it would be mostly people like me who value progress, equity, and justice rather than religion and tribalism. Why is this the case?

It is ironic, but I feel Instagram is much more progressive than Reddit when it comes to India and related discussions. I once said that AP politics should discuss about education, medicine proximity, and infrastructure rather than laddu and sanatana dharma and they downvoted me to oblivion.

This is a rant. Context: I am unemployed right now and trying to make some things work. I have some degree of financial cushion and parental support, for which my material conditions are not terrible, and I can take a few more months to prepare for stuff. But the more I stay at home, spend hours reading the news, I keep wondering what holds the semblance of normalcy in this country together. Not even going as far as the ideological bankruptcy, rampant privatisation and corporate takeover all around; just regular life. You want to book a 3A/3E/Sleeper train ticket for an exam? Cannot because they get sold out 2 months earlier or something. Want to eat vegetables regularly? Cannot, look at the prices. Want to go out on a short walk in the evening? No sidewalk, only debris. Comfortable public transport? Lol.

The list will not end, and this is just me, a fairly privileged person, talking about what only personally affects me.

Adding to this, the right-wing takeover of university unions, the liberalism of the Indian left; haven't heard a single political speech in ages that talks about the continuous degradation of working class life. Bureaucratic bullsh*t all around; I understand that only some of us in this country are living, most of us are barely surviving. But it really makes me wonder how things actually work, why are we not at the brink of a civil war when the conditions are rifer than it could ever have been; exactly what did it take for us to come to this point. Theory and policy analyses perhaps explains this scale of crises, but I cannot make sense of the apathy and indifference with which we go about our day to day lives.

In the Left Front (excluding CPM), CPI, FB and RSP contests too. In the recent assembly elections:

• CPI got 99,223 in 17 seats, RSP got 64,209 in 18 seats. Even if combined, it is not enough to win a single Assembly seat in West Bengal too. And these two parties are expecting 2 seats each in the next Lok Sabha Elections (btw which requires about 6 Lac votes minimum to win a seat in WB).
• FB contested 24 seats and received 176,980 votes, and they are expecting to contest 3 Lok Sabha seats.
• The ally ISF, even if you like it or not. They are in a strong position to potentially win 2 Lok Sabha seats with the support of the Left.
• The question is what is the CPM getting from these parties of the Left Front?: These three parties get about 8 out of 42 seats, and end up disappointing heavily in all of them, without even the slightest glimmer of hope.

In that condition, should CPM forcefully consider asking them either to merge or finally they should take a hard call and part ways? Even if they go out of the front, I don't expect them to have a significant impact on politics. (Even during the Left Front era, the seats these parties won, had a due credit of CPM cadres).

For the future, CPM can consider building their own strength independently across the map? To be honest, among the Left Front only CPM gets some footage, activism and street presence. If the other parties can't put out that effort independently, it's no brainer to rely on someone for now. 2029 will be interesting to check out: Is CPM going to ally ISF and Congress? How many seats are they going to win, considering TMC losing ground.