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[-] Mokey2@hexbear.net 49 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Everything about India sounds so miserable, like imagine if they went communist like the Chinese did.

@jackmarxist@hexbear.net

Can you share any good or promising things about India? What I can see from social media seems very bleak.

[-] Esoteir@hexbear.net 51 points 11 months ago

iirc kerala is pretty cool, they regularly elect marxist communists and while it's not a socialist state by any means, they've done good things working in the confines of the liberal framework with stuff like the highest minimum wage in india and a strong protest scene

[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 58 points 11 months ago

Kerala is run by a Communist Party and they're the most literate state in India. Plus communal harmony is also the best in Kerala.

[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 36 points 11 months ago

And their maternal mortality rate is lower than it is in many U.S. states (Georgia, Texas, etc.)

[-] Mokey2@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago

Lmao us dont be evil and bad challenge

[-] Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 11 months ago

Kerala has done decently well.
The current govt has aimed at eradicating extreme poverty from Kerala by the end of the next year.
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/kerala-rolls-out-plan-to-eradicate-extreme-poverty-by-2025-2422621-2023-08-17

It may not be according to Western standards, but it's still a very cool initiative.

There's also the Nava Kerala mission
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nava_Kerala_Mission
Nava means New in Malayalam, the main language used in Kerala.

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 21 points 11 months ago

Kerala is unironically the best state of India and unbelievably based

[-] Mokey2@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

Thats whats up

[-] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 34 points 11 months ago

imagine if they went communist like the Chinese did

They were Soviet Aligned for most of the Cold War. But the division between Hindus and Muslims eventually created a wedge that western capital could leverage to break the leftist tendencies of the earlier governments, ending with Chaudhary Charan Singh. By the 80s, they'd begun a full transition to neoliberal governance.

[-] miz@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago

while we're asking questions where can I find a historical materialist examination of the whole Operation Blue Star incident and the leadup to it.

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 11 months ago

Are you asking this from the point a tourist? Or generally in terms of the direction the country is headed in?

If you wanna travel then I don't good advice but Kerala and the Himalayas are very beautiful, though the latter spills over to Nepal.

For the other question I would say the outlook id overall pessimistic.

[-] Mokey2@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago
[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

Nothing is cool about India except Kerala and some states in the north east. North India is a shithole.

[-] Mokey2@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Why was this removed by mod? Im just trying to learn and be less ignorant

Like if jack was mad my bad

[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

Idk why it was removed. I praised Kerala and gave my opinion on north India.

[-] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

this is like saying europe is a shithole because europeans in america shoot up schools

whites try to know anything about the world at all (challenge impossible ik)

also 3 of those top 13 cities are european and one of them's even in italy lmfao (despite having 80x the GDP)

[-] Mokey2@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago
[-] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 0 points 11 months ago

not my job to explain the obvious

[-] Mokey2@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

Going to block

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