Majority of India’s 900 Million Workforce Stop Looking for Jobs
Majority of India’s 900 Million Workforce Stop Looking for Jobs
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Labor participation rate dropped from 46% to 40% in five years
Only 9% of Indian women are employed or looking for jobs
Neo-liberalism is working very well you see, so much so that everyone's trying as hard as they can to get a job in whatever is left of the public sector.
I think a lot of people in the western left really overlook how close India is getting to The Cool Zone. sure they have the naxalites and some communists in local government, but those are very regional and India is very big. meanwhile at a society wide level unions have grown, gotten more militant, the cost of living and quality of life have gone down, the mass suicide rate among farmers, theres a lot bubbling across Indian society at large
:yea: only state development and central planning can save India, Modi however, destroyed the Planning Commission and Five Year Plans. Instead choosing to sell all the public assets off to capitalists at a discount, repealed labor codes etc. Covid provided a perfect excuse for doing it (Shock Doctrine moment).
Modi is heightening the contradictions in India faster than people even thought he could. in the west our unions are mostly dead, even in Europe they're a shadow of what we had in the 80s even. so here nobody pushes back against the new economic order where you own nothing. in India they have unions, they have militancy, and they have a history of socialist movements that still come out in force. I'm maybe naive, but I believe in our Indian comrades that all of this is giving them manpower to fight
India going communist would be bloomer moment
It would literally be ogre for Western hegemony
Nearly 3 billion people vs a few honkies
inshallah
India going communist would be a precursor to the middle east too. India won't do China's "let's leave everyone alone" approach.
It is the biggest possibility for communists in the world. Literally the win button.
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