Begumpura: bahujan antifascism

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The Sanghi syndrome: A poisonous mindset affecting some ignorant, bigoted and often privileged individuals, in which one believes that: 1. A government of half-witted r*pists, m*rderers and looters, controlled by the capitalist elite and having all the mainstream (paid) media on its side and most of the celebrities under its control, with a record full of failures, lies and false promises, is somehow never wrong and is never to be questioned, no matter what happens. 2. Any spontaneous people's protests, on the other hand, whether they involve farmers, students, women, dalits, adivasis, human rights activists or environmental activists etc, almost always triggered by a clear government failure or corporate encroachment, are always anti-national and foreign funded, although there's never any proof for it or the question of how the government failed to stop such supposed large scale funding; and regardless of how large scale the protests are, they're always somehow centrally controlled by some "enemy of the nation" (the specific individuals in control are never known, never caught, it's always vague – pakistan, china, CIA etc)

Any system which aims at avoiding this kind of waste must entail the far more serious waste of rejecting or spoiling some of the best ability in each generation. The system of free education up to any grade for all who desire it is the only system which is consistent with the principles of liberty, and the only one which gives a reasonable hope of affording full scope for talent. This system is equally compatible with all forms of Socialism and Anarchism. Theoretically, it is compatible with capitalism, but practically it is so opposite in spirit that it would hardly be feasible without a complete economic reconstruction. The fact that Socialism would facilitate it must be reckoned a very powerful argument in favor of change, for the waste of talent at present in the poorer classes of society must be stupendous. — Bertrand Russell, Proposed Roads to Freedom (Ch. VII)

Bertrand Russell on providing free education (at all levels) for all without competitive exams: Technical training at present, whether in science or art, requires one or other of two conditions. Either a boy must be the son of well-to-do parents who can afford to keep him while he acquires his education, or he must show so much ability at an early age as to enable him to subsist on scholarships until he is ready to earn his living. The former condition is, of course, a mere matter of luck, and could not be preserved in its present form under any kind of Socialism or Communism. This loss is emphasized by defenders of the present system, and no doubt it would be, to same extent, a real loss. But the well-to-do are a small proportion of the population, and presumably on the average no more talented by nature than their less fortunate contemporaries. If the advantages which are enjoyed now by those few among them who are capable of good work in science or art could be extended, even in a slightly attenuated form, to all who are similarly gifted, the result would almost infallibly be a gain, and much ability which is now wasted would be rendered fruitful. But how is this to be effected? The system of scholarships obtained by competition, though better than nothing, is objectionable from many points of view. It introduces the competitive spirit into the work of the very young; it makes them regard knowledge from the standpoint of what is useful in examinations rather than in the light of its intrinsic interest or importance; it places a premium upon that sort of ability which is displayed precociously in glib answers to set questions rather than upon the kind that broods on difficulties and remains for a time rather dumb. What is perhaps worse than any of these defects is the tendency to cause overwork in youth, leading to lack of vigor and interest when manhood has been reached. It can hardly be doubted that by this cause, at present, many fine minds have their edge blunted and their keenness destroyed. State Socialism might easily universalize the system of scholarships obtained by competitive examination, and if it did so it is to he feared that it would be very harmful. State Socialists at present tend to be enamored of the systems which is exactly of the kind that every bureaucrat loves: orderly, neat, giving a stimulus to industrious habits, and involving no waste of a sort that could be tabulated in statistics or accounts of public expenditure. Such men will argue that free higher education is expensive to the community, and only useful in the case of those who have exceptional abilities; it ought, therefore, they will say, not to be given to all, but only to those who will become more useful members of society through receiving it. Such arguments make a great appeal to what are called "practical" men, and the answers to them are of a sort which it is difficult to render widely convincing. Revolt against the evils of competition is, however, part of the very essence of the Socialist's protest against the existing order, and on this ground, if on no other, those who favor Socialism may be summoned to look for some better solution. Much the simplest solution, and the only really effective one, is to make every kind of education free up to the age of twenty-one for all boys and girls who desire it. The majority will be tired of education before that age, and will prefer to begin other work sooner; this will lead to a natural selection of those with strong interests in some pursuit requiring a long training. Among those selected in this way by their own inclinations, probably almost all who have marked abilities of the kind in question will be included. It is true that there will also be many who have very little ability; the desire to become a painter, for example, is by no means confined to those who can paint. But this degree of waste could well be borne by the community; it would be immeasurably less than that now entailed by the support of the idle rich.

"If you want to survive, you have to prove to one set of savarna cabbages that your merit is hard earned and real. And to the other set of cabbages that despite your merit- you are still suffering. Any evidence of joy, confidence, stability means you are brahmin." – @rumlolarum on twitter https://rumlolarum.wordpress.com/2021/12/31/merit-and-my-middle-finger/

"The anarchists remain, as ever, resolutely opposed to parliamentarism and parliamentary tactics. Opposed to parliamentarism because they believe that socialism should and can only be achieved through a free federation of producer and consumer associations, and that any government, parliamentary government included, is not merely powerless to resolve the social question and reconcile and satisfy everybody’s interests, but of itself represents a privileged class, with ideas, passions, and interests contrary to those of the people, which it can oppress by means of the people’s own strength. Opposed to the parliamentary tactics because they believe that, far from encouraging the development of popular consciousness, it has a tendency to disaccustom the people to the direct care of their own interests and schools the ones in slavishness and the others in intrigues and lies. Far be it from us to ignore the importance of political freedoms. But freedoms are only secured once the people have shown themselves determined to have them; and, once obtained, they endure and have value only until such time as governments feel that the people would suffer their being abolished. Accustoming the people to delegating to others the winning and defence of its rights is the surest means of giving a free hand to the whims of those who govern. True, parliamentarism is better than despotism: but only if it represents a concession granted by the despot out of fear of worse." — Errico Malatesta, The Socialists and the Elections (1897)

"If the protests of children were heard in kindergarten, if their questions were attended to, it would be enough to explode the entire educational system. There is no denying that our social system is totally without tolerance; this accounts for its extreme fragility in all its aspects and also its need for a global form of repression." — Gilles Deleuze, in a conversation with Michel Foucault in 1972 art: priyesh trivedi, anarchy, 2014

Reservations Remember... some hateful and malicious people will always try to blame the reservations for everything, but in fact, the reservation policy is not the problem! The lack of sufficient number of university seats & jobs is the problem – the real problem. When there are a hundred students aspiring for higher education but only one college seat available, there is going to be struggle, with or without reservations. Reservations are only meant to ensure a certain minimum level of representation for the marginalized, who still lack sufficient level of representation in important sectors. If you remove the reservation policy, most people will still end up not getting their desired public university seats or public sector jobs, simply because there are not enough opportunities – there are, in fact, way too few opportunities. But the main difference will be that, out of the people who do end up getting those seats / jobs, the majority will continue to be from the privileged communities. The reservation policy is not incompatible with "merit", they're not mutually exclusive. A certain number of public university seats / public sector jobs are just reserved for the oppressed & marginalized communities; the idea that such candidates would all be "meritless" is inherently casteist. The opposition to the reservation policy is often grounded not in any empirical evidence or logic, but in casteism. Therefore, instead of mindlessly opposing the reservation policy and spewing internalized casteism, we should all come together to demand the government to provide sufficient and better opportunities for all, more jobs and more quality educational facilities – and not to mention, more quality public hospitals as well as other public infrastructure that is much needed. Isn't it supposed to be the government's job to provide us sufficient opportunities instead of making us fight each other for so meagerly few opportunities? When we try to crush each other instead of asking questions to the government, it is the corrupt ruling class that wins and us common people who lose – every single time.

'They call themselves “red-pill” activists, borrowing from a popular reference from the movie The Matrix. The term, widely used in the West, refers to the belief that modern society is biased against men and oppresses them. Several accounts – Daku Incel Singh, The Married Man, Shark, The Forgotten Man and The Breaking Beta – have built large followings by posting about their perceived injustice against men. But this movement is not new. Men’s right activist Amit Lakhani traces it back to 2005, when a few men facing dowry allegations came together and created a group on Yahoo. “It was called Save Indian Family Group, and comprised of men with good educational backgrounds, like engineers and IT professionals,” said Lakhani. “They started discussing their personal courtroom experiences, and how allegations of dowry and sexual molestation against them were risking their jobs and careers.” It soon started taking shape as a larger movement and NGOs for men’s rights started popping up. Until the past few years, however, the movement was limited to activist circles. It was the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput in 2020 that opened the floodgates to dozens of conspiracy theories flowing out of hundreds of anonymous accounts – many using Rajput’s name or image. They portrayed his girlfriend, actor Rhea Chakraborty, as the villain — creating narratives about women being manipulative, hypergamous, gold diggers and beneficiaries of a system supposedly biased against men. It didn’t stop there. These accounts became fiercer, more emboldened with each murder — be it the Sonam Raghuvanshi case or the blue drum murder case. They used every story with a male victim to harden their suspicions about feminist women.' https://theprint.in/ground-reports/inside-indias-manosphere-rhea-chakraborty-sparked-it-siya-ketan-goyal-murder-case-is-firing-it-up/2980635/

'In the gut-slicked alleys of Bengaluru’s meat markets, a brutal hierarchy dictates not only who handles the meat, but which parts of the animal are deemed worthy of touch. Beneath the surface of daily commerce, these markets operate as a political construct—a rigid, caste-based assembly line that reflects how societal systems can lead individuals into dead-end cycles of labour and poverty. While the higher-class butchers manage the primary cuts of muscle meat in the main market, the “spare parts” are sold in the Boti (offal) market by those next in the social food chain. In the shadowy depths behind these markets, the “underclass” of the carcass, considered a religious and social taboo – the hooves and heads – are fire-processed by the Dalits. In the dread-inducing darkness of the furnaces, the invisible threads of power and history that tie a society together reveal how labour and identity are structurally fused to keep certain groups marginalised. The workers in these markets are often descendants of approximately 5,000 Tamil Dalit migrants primarily from the Arunthathiyar community, brought from the Madras Presidency by the British. They were imported specifically to perform “polluting” tasks that local populations often avoided: the raw manual labour of butchery, tannery, and leatherwork. Following the 1898 Bubonic plague epidemic, the British and Mysore administrators redesigned the city’s markets with a focus on “sanitary” segregation that often mirrored existing caste-based divides. Cleanliness became a racial and social marker. Perceived as an outcast industry, meat markets, tanneries and slaughterhouses were kept at a safe distance from the posh Cantonment bungalows and colonial zones. Today, in these meat markets, Dalit and De-notified Tribes workers such as the Holeya, exist at the most violent collision of manual toil and human degradation. Funnelled by poverty and social exclusion into a single, predetermined path of survival, their life mimics the one-way nature of the slaughterhouse floor.' https://thewire.in/labour/in-photos-the-anatomy-of-exclusion-hidden-hierarchies-of-the-meat-market

"Pondicherry’s inhabitants blended French with their culture, creating a unique, creole identity. This gave birth to two distinct creole communities: the haut créoles (high creoles) and the bas créoles (low creoles). The haut créoles, descendants of the first French colonists, traced their ancestry to Europe and lived in the grand mansions of White Town. They cultivated a French close to the standard spoken in Paris. The bas creoles emerged from mixed marriages between Europeans, Tamils, and other Asian communities over the centuries. They lived in humble quarters near fishing villages or in lower-caste neighborhoods, and embodied the most vibrant and earthy expression of cultural fusion. The bas créole of Pondicherry speak a living, hybrid language: French vocabulary richly compounded with Tamil words, syntax, and rhythms, sometimes laced with Portuguese echoes from even earlier encounters. This Creole has a Tamil accent and a melodic flow, transforming formal French into a distinctly local idiom." https://scroll.in/article/1092472/by-sidelining-french-cbse-undermines-a-living-bridge-between-worlds-in-pondicherry

An excellent report about a group of workers from Odisha in Gujarat, with a rich photo gallery documenting the disturbing conditions they work in. This is no way to live, but this is the lives of millions in India. https://apnews.com/article/india-textile-climate-change-heat-workers-factory-3fd96aa31437eef62b9120af23d96634

"For generations, this corner of Pakistan [Sambrial, Sialkot] has helped make the world's footballs. The city's relationship with football's biggest tournament stretches back decades. In 1982, Sialkot manufacturer Sublime Sports produced Adidas's Tango Espana, the first official World Cup ball to be made in Pakistan. More recently, every official World Cup ball since the 2014 tournament has also been manufactured in Sialkot." https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2026/6/26/the-hands-behind-the-beautiful-game

"Several landless farmers who died by suicide are not included in the official figures, according to information shared in the Assembly." https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/maharashtra/2026/Jun/25/maharashtra-reports-6667-farmer-suicides-in-2023-as-crop-insurers-earn-6944-cr-in-profits

"The app links to the National Automated Fingerprint Identification System (NAFIS), which stores fingerprint scans of accused, convicts, and those in prisons on a centralised platform. A demonstration of the app showed that prints can be matched with the NAFIS database in 35 seconds." https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/police-get-new-app-to-scan-suspect-fingerprints-on-the-streets/article71122778.ece

"Among all the Dharmashastras, Manusmriti is one of the most systematically formulated works. The Brahmins laid down the laws and regulations suitable for the kind of society to ensure their hegemony at the juridical level. They gave shape to it through a complex and competent form of writings to legalize and perpetuate the caste system which was the life giver for the foundation of Vedic society. The Manusmriti provided an apparently scientific and historical basis for the creation of an unequal and unjust society. It showed its ruthlessness in obstructing the progressive evolution of society, ensuring its continuance in a static and lifeless form. It played a vital role in providing the basic ideas for the development of fascism and imperialism all over the world." — Kathi Padma Rao

"The Rohingya have been called the most persecuted minority in the world by the United Nations and human rights groups. “They are stateless, denied citizenship in their own country despite living there for centuries,” said Daniel Sullivan of Refugees International, who has spent years tracking the crisis. In 1977, Myanmar’s military launched what it called Operation Dragon King, a nationwide campaign often described as a form of ethnic cleansing. By May 1978, more than 200,000 Rohingya had fled to neighboring Bangladesh. Four years later, Myanmar passed a citizenship law that excluded the Rohingya from the country’s officially recognized ethnic groups." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/04/buffalo-rohingya-refugee-death-homicide-border-agents

Tensions are rising on the India-Bangladesh border as Dhaka accuses India of forcing thousands over. New Delhi says it’s deporting illegal migrants. Al Jazeera’s Tanvir Chowdhury reports.

Why are Hindu women not allowed to go the crematorium and why men are not allowed to witness the process of birthing? Apartheid given a woke spin in this video. It's about "longitudinal balance."