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rekhaorekha.bsky.social
by "certain ideological strands" do they mean hindutva?
The dating of the Sangam works is highly vexatious. What is clear is that the date of composition and the date of anthologization are different and perhaps separated by as many as a few centuries. There is a huge scholarly industry, in Tamil Nadu and around the world, turning out monographs and articles on dating and chronology. Often the dating of this corpus is the litmus test for one’s Tamil-ness—the older the date assigned the more authentic a Tamil one is. Such early dating is also a reaction to certain ideological strands which delight in pulling down the dates and drawing Sanskrit parallels for every Tamil achievement. Not surprisingly, therefore, it is often very difficult to clear the crabgrass of argument and polemic to arrive at a reasoned conclusion.
January 13, 2025 at 3:01 AM
rekhaorekha.bsky.social
and now with social media, even social life is subjected to finance capital and the totalitarian state
The totalitarian state, subjecting all aspects of economic, political, and cultural life to finance capital, is the instrument for creating a supernationalist state, an imperialist empire, the rule over continents, the rule over the whole world.
January 9, 2025 at 8:07 AM
rekhaorekha.bsky.social
interestingly, instead of the south asian communists, the hindu fascists of rss seem to have actually done all of this, but to their ends
In the ranks of the Socialist Party sometimes this objection is heard: “A militia must be formed but there is no need of shouting about it.” One can only congratulate comrades who wish to protect the practical side of the business from inquisitive eyes and ears. But it would be much too naive to think that a militia could be created unseen and secretly within four walls. We need tens, and later hundreds, of thousands of fighters. They will come only if millions of men and women workers, and behind them the peasants, understand the necessity for the militia and create around the volunteers an atmosphere of ardent sympathy and active support. Conspiratorial care can and must envelop only the technical aspect of the matter. The political campaign must be openly developed, in meetings, factories, in the streets and on the public squares.
January 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
rekhaorekha.bsky.social
speaking about the possibility of forming a workers' militia - i don't see as to how it can be a sure defense against adventurism, because just like parties, militias can also be stupid - so i honestly can't agree with trotsky on this point
It is nonsense to say that, in itself, the organization of the militia leads to adventures, provokes the enemy, replaces the political struggle by physical struggle, etc. In all these phrases, there is nothing but political cowardice. The militia, as the strong organization of the vanguard, is in fact the surest defense against adventures, against individual terrorism, against bloody spontaneous explosions.
January 8, 2025 at 7:20 PM
rekhaorekha.bsky.social
apart from the russian revolution, when else has the army defected to the side of the workers' movements? because i am finding this use of the word "often" to be confusing
The bourgeoisie is leading its society to complete bankruptcy. It is capable of assuring the people neither bread nor peace. This is precisely why it cannot any longer tolerate the democratic order. It is forced to smash the workers and peasants by the use of physical violence. The discontent of the workers and peasants, however, cannot be brought to an end by the police alone. Moreover, if it often impossible to make the army march against the people. It begins by disintegrating and ends with the passage of a large section of the soldiers over to the people’s side. That is why finance capital is obliged to create special armed bands, trained to fight the workers just as certain breeds of dog are trained to hunt game. The historic function of fascism is to smash the working class, destroy its organizations, and stifle political liberties when the capitalists find themselves unable to govern and dominate with the help of democratic machinery.
January 3, 2025 at 8:08 AM
rekhaorekha.bsky.social
freedom struggle vs the current hindutva is a nice parallel. like, hindutva as a parody freedom struggle against the parody imperialism of america, vs our og freedom struggle against the og british imperialism; with the freedom struggle as a failed revolution betrayed by the bourgeois' partition
Involuntarily, a historical generalization comes up here, recalling the evaluation given by Marx of Jacobinism as the plebian method of settling accounts with the feudal enemies of the bourgeoisie ... That was in the period of the rise of the bourgeoisie. Now we must say, in the period of the decline of bourgeois society, the bourgeoisie again needs the ‘plebian’ method of resolving its no longer progressive but entirely reactionary tasks. In this sense, fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
January 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
rekhaorekha.bsky.social
i don't know who is more stupid - the german socdems who refused to use their iron front or the indian opposition who never developed an actual iron front (party goons don't exactly count here as they were never exactly educated on ideology/party lines)
In case of actual danger, the social democracy banks not on the “Iron Front” but on the Prussian police. It is reckoning without its host! The fact that the police was originally recruited in large numbers from among social-democratic workers is absolutely meaningless. Consciousness is determined by environment even in this instance. The worker who becomes a policeman in the service of the capitalist state, is a bourgeois cop, not a worker. Of late years, these policemen have had to do much more fighting with revolutionary workers than with Nazi students. Such training does not fail to leave its effects. And above all: every policeman knows that though governments may change, the police remains. [NOTE: “The Iron Front”: A bloc between several big trade unions and bourgeois “republican” groups with little or no following or prestige among the masses. It was created by the social democrats toward the end of 1931. Combat groups called the Iron Fist were set up within the unions, and workers’ sports organizations were brought into the Iron Front. However, its first parades and rallies, at which thousands of workers raised their fists, shouted “Freedom”, and swore to defend democracy. The masses in the Social Democratic Party and unions really believed that this organization would be used to stop Hitler. It was not.]
December 29, 2024 at 9:00 AM
rekhaorekha.bsky.social
this is not letting me sleep right now
THE POLICING OF FAMILIES JACQUES DONZELOT WITH A FOREWORD BY GILLES DELEUZE TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH BY ROBERT HURLEY PANTHEON BOOKS NEW YORK
November 27, 2024 at 7:40 PM
rekhaorekha.bsky.social
nikla chuha
fully kneaded dough
October 20, 2024 at 5:02 PM
rekhaorekha.bsky.social
khoda pahad
a shaggy batch of dough
October 20, 2024 at 5:01 PM