Communist-led Kerala soon to become India’s first state free of extreme poverty
Communist-led Kerala soon to become India’s first state free of extreme poverty
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In a capitalist country headed by the fascist hindutva, Kerala achieving the highest state HDI, maintaining literacy rates above 95% where elsewhere one-third is illiterate, and now achieving the above poverty eradication is extremely impressive especially when considering the constrains imposed for undermining the local sovereignity by the federal government, nation apparatuses amd bourgoise media.
For anyone lurking:
- Mahatma and the Ism by EMS: https://redsails.org/the-meaning-of-gandhism
- CIA interference: https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/cia-funded-congress-to-fight-communists-in-india-revealed-us-officials-usaid-controversy-trump-india-2683375-2025-02-21
- Healthcare: https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/02/17/keralas-healthcare-revolution-a-triumph-over-corporate-greed-and-inequality/
- There Are So Many Lessons to Learn from Kerala - Vijay Prashad: https://thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/11-kerala/
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Isn't the government of India pretty fascist? It's amazing to me they have an entire state that's communist led. Does that state still hold up that caste system?
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As I understand it's not a "Communist Led" state per se, but that the communist party takes part in the elections and wins about 50% of the time by getting the most seats in the Kerala state assembly. India being fascist has little to do with the state governments, many of them are varying degrees of liberal, conservative etc. since India operates on a federal system that gives quite a bit of autonomy to each state. And even though the locally elected Socialist party in any given state can in fact win and govern for a term, there is also always a federally appointed governor that can and will thwart and cause problems if needed to, as was done recently in a different Indian state. Any Indian comrades feel free to correct me if I got anything wrong. Also the caste system is a mainly social issue, I don't think any government officially "upholds" it in India outside of affirmative action.
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Thank you for this. Very informative.
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It's not fascist at all compared to how it's neighbouring countries are
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Absolute dub, I love Kerala, excited to see prosperity there
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