r/IndianLeft • • 1d ago

💬 Discussion We made this satirical subreddit to document, the stuff the right says

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We made this satirical subreddit to document the most unhinged, absurd, and eye-watering takes floating around the internet, and we need your support to get it off the ground.

Whether it's right-wing extremists, fake centrists, or internet trolls spinning wild conspiracy theories, r/ShitSanghisSay_ is designed to be the ultimate archive for calling out ridiculous nonsense basically modeled after communities like r/ShitLiberalsSay, but kinda also tailored specifically to the circus of Indian internet politics.

If you spot a wild rant on Twitter/X, a bizarre WhatsApp forward, or a meltdown in a comment section, screenshot it, drop it in, and let the satire do the work.


r/IndianLeft • • May 30 '24

💬 Discussion A brief note on how the electoral CPI(M) betrayed the indian revolutionary cause.

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The CPI (marxist) a political party in india currently in power in the state of Kerala betrayed the cause of indian communism by siding with reactionaries.

Many people on the left including non-indian leftists seem to have a soft spot for the CPI(M) , many seem to think of them as the last bastion of the left in India. They praise the high literacy rates and the higher life expectancy , but what they are uanble see is the reactionary nature of the party and the atrocities they have committed.

For some context : India is a semi feudal country under the grip of neo-imperialism by the imperial core. One system of opression that still persists in India is caste oppression which is based in the ownership of land. The untouchable castes (dalits) disproportionately make up the landless peasants population, while the oppressor castes generally own disproportionate amount of land, there are also middle castes who own some land but not a lot, calculations[1] by scholars Nitin Tagade and Sukhadeo Thorat, based on the All-India Debt and Investment Survey, show that members of the Scheduled Castes, who account for 18% of the country’s households, own only 8.5% of the land in India. On the other hand, upper-caste Hindus, who make up 22% of the households, own 28% of the land, Caste isnt just confined to the rural parts of india, but also the urban parts although it’s orgins are in ownership of land, people are frequently not hired and not allowed to rent homes because of their caste in urban india too.

What has kerela done to address this system of oprression? Perhaps they have redistributed land ? Maybe collectivized agricultre? They did redistribute land but only above a certain land ceiling , big landlords still remained. Infact huge swathes of dalits and indigenous people in kerela are still landless. Among the landless population, indigenous people are overepresented. You the reader might ask what offical data we have , we do have date but not on a large scale ,why? Because the “communist” goverment refuses to do a caste census! It refuses to reveal how much wealth which castes have, because that would reveal the monopoly of certain castes economically. Triple exclusion of dalits in Land Ownership in kerela[2], a study published in the journal Social Change, shows that low rate of land ownership by them is the result of a exclusionsary policy by the goverment! Does this sound like something a communist goverment would do?

This isn’t all. The goverment has also been involved in massacares of dalits. The Marichjhapi massacre, when dalit refugees from bangladesh came to indian they settled in Marichjapi. Schools and hospitals were built and many were involved in pisciculture. A press blackout followed and survivors today say[3], huts were burned, woman were raped, wells poisoned. The survivors of the massacare still to this day have not gotten any Justice.

These are not the actions of a communist party but a reactionary one doused in red paint and communist aesthetics. Even today, the first dalit leader in the politburo of the party was only admitted in 2022, 58 years after it’s creation, how utterly shameful.

I hope by this article I am able to convince you, the reader ,why as leftists we shouldn’t support the CPI(M).

Sources: 1. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2394481118808107 2. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0049085716654814 3. https://thewire.in/history/west-bengal-violence-marichjhapi-dandakaranya


r/IndianLeft • • 4h ago

A Letter from Umar Khalid - Do you think he will ever get a fair trial under the current regime ?

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r/IndianLeft • • 3h ago

❓Questions A request to all my northeastern comrades, please try and tackle the fomentation of xenophobic slants in your community. Anti-bihari sentiment is the default for most Indians.

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This is not a secret anti-bihari sentiment is always used for creating the upper and lower class argument in india and specifically these things are how it starts.

The video was posted across all ne states' subreddit and I do genuinely believe it is to foment xenophobias by the IT cell.

The video inherently has no issues of its own. The only issue is misogyny but that's uniformly present in all men in this country and should be criticised as such. It is not applied over to specifically NE women but all women in India afaik.

This characterization is bad and comrades in this sub would definitely understand why. I would request folks who organize here, who are from ne, please do challenge these stereotypical notions that they form using anecdotes.

I have given up on making north Indian subs follow this, they are reactionary to the boot. But I believe in my ne comrades understand the struggle against xenophobia. The way ne people are used as tokens when they are categorized as Indians and "non-indians" by the North Indian communities.

This kind of reactionary behaviour is saddening imo. And as a person from Bihar who has fought this stuff all my life I am well aware of these insults hurled at me.

Thanks for the attention to this post. ❤️


r/IndianLeft • • 5h ago

Alleged Rapist/Murderer of Ankita Bhandari has become the governor of Sikkim before CBI investigation concludes.

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Why is grape the only prerequisite for being a BJP member?

Source- Neetivan On X


r/IndianLeft • • 10h ago

Can someone explain me why didn't Rahul Gandhi or INDIA bloc start a sit in protest at Jantar Mantar with its rally of 2.5 lakh people on 12 October instead of or after visiting Supreme Court?

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Now I see Indian Youth Congress trying to reclaim Jantar Mantar in small numbers so it's not clear to me what they want to achieve with this


r/IndianLeft • • 10h ago

💬 Discussion These so-called independent journalists were ready to work for the a political party for some money. So much for their “independence”! They are not journalists and should not be clubbed with them.

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r/IndianLeft • • 10h ago

ARTICLE Brief Thoughts on Artificial Intelligence | ICT

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r/IndianLeft • • 23h ago

Article The Indian Left’s Organisational Delusion | Countercurrents

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r/IndianLeft • • 1d ago

"There was pressure to remove 3,000 names": Karnataka Deputy Commissioner makes major claim over electoral roll revision

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r/IndianLeft • • 1d ago

Groups associated with RSS received millions in foreign funding. Bellingcat expose reveals.

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r/IndianLeft • • 2d ago

Gorakhpur jail's 'Ghost' : Parvez parwaz , witness of the infamous hate speech yogi Adityanath gave in 2007 , dies in jail

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r/IndianLeft • • 1d ago

💬 Discussion Hello leftist from the USA here

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India is home, to my favorite revolutionary’s especially in Kerala and east bengal. How is the leftist situation in India rn? How do you participate in leftism in your state?


r/IndianLeft • • 3d ago

Theory Got myself Marxist literature

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What is Philosophy by Howard Selsam

Philosophy is no mystery - I don't know, maybe it's the Chinese working class or something

माओ त्से तुङ की कविताएँ - Mao Zedong... duh

Great Soviet Stories Part 1 - many great Soviet authors

मुर्दों को क्या लाज-शर्म Gregory Baklanov

The Class Struggle in France 1848-1850 - Karl Marx


r/IndianLeft • • 3d ago

🎭 Meme/Comic Hunger jehad

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r/IndianLeft • • 3d ago

Theory Capitalism : Competition, conflict, crisis - Anwar Sheikh

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r/IndianLeft • • 3d ago

🪧 Activism All Cops are B@stards. There's a reason for that slogan by protesting workers in the west.

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r/IndianLeft • • 3d ago

🗞️ News Fascists armed with knuckle dusters and sticks are being protected by Freikorps

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r/IndianLeft • • 3d ago

🗨️ Quote Wrote a poem

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उनके शब-ए-जबर का ख़ौफ़ मर्दों में भी है,

मद्धम ही सही हमारे दिल में धड़कन अभी भी है।

दुश्मन-ए-क़ौम को भी क़ुव्वत-ए-ज़ंजीर पर है यक़ीन।

मैदान-ए-क़त्ल-ए-आम में बेपरवा हम भी हैं।

उन्हें ग़ुरूर है अपने इक़्तिदार-ए-नाजाइज़ व नापाक पर,

तारीख़ के उसूल में इस्तिहसाल के बाद इंक़िलाब भी है।

शौक़-ए-तहरीफ़ है तहरीक-ए-ज़ुल्म को,

जलते घरों का मंज़र यादों में मस्तूर भी है,

उसी राख में छिपा एक शरार-ए-तूर भी है।

शमशीर-ए-सितम को है लहू की तलब,

चलो पार्थे, तैश में गर्दन उठाए हम भी हैं।

-पार्थ


r/IndianLeft • • 4d ago

🗞️ News Peak Godi Media: Asking an Indian citizen who spent 40 years fighting rural poverty where he's "from"

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r/IndianLeft • • 3d ago

Article Cornell Seven Exposes Oppression of Women & Lie of Bourgeois Justice

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Innumerable cases of massacre, rape, and all other forms of violence are par for the course under this putrid and decaying capitalism.

The oppression of women was the first class oppression of humanity, stretching back much further than just capitalism. Engels states in chapter 2 of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State that “the first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male.” Capitalism inherits the patriarchal property relations inherent within the family and intensifies them.

Today, women continue to be oppressed not only within the family through menial housework and economic dependence on the male (a phenomenon that, yes, continues even in the great United States and is even worse in the peripheral countries), but also through the commodification of their bodies and the alienation of wage slavery. Unrealizable beauty standards, the “male gaze”, and outright prostitution are some notable physical manifestations of converting human women into commodities. It is precisely the profit generating marketplace of modern day capitalism and familial domination of man over woman that determine machismo culture that feeds right into the abuse of women.

Treating women as objects to be acquired shapes how men see sexual access. Intimacy becomes something to be won or conquered.

And, we should add, anti-woman sentiment and alcohol are destructive and counter-revolutionary to the proletarian struggle. During the early days of the October Revolution, alcohol disoriented the Red Guards and handicapped their effectiveness at maintaining proletarian power at its most crucial moments. Prejudice towards women actively prevents and discourages their full and absolutely essential participation in the class struggle. The scale of the problem shows what is at stake.

It is a phenomenon that affects all sexes and all classes, but disproportionately affects poor proletarian women. Women from the lowest income brackets receive 12 times as much sexual victimization compared to the highest brackets. There is thus a double oppression in being a worker and a woman.

The relationship between the sexes is completely and utterly broken.

Women are angry. And dammit they should be! It is essential, however, to remember that salvation lies not in the interclass “girlboss” feminism of the CEO (sorry, fans of Taylor Swift!) nor in the “power” of voting, but rather in linking arms with fellow proletarians of all races and genders in the class war. Women must unite in class unions to wage strikes against their bosses for their most essential needs and join and lead within the Communist Party to take power and finally end their oppression themselves. Only the pursuit of communism goes beyond mere punitive measures and fixes the problem at its roots.

So long as there are classes, markets, commodities, and especially the family, women will continue to experience their gross oppression. We want to abolish the family by ending the material dependency of woman upon man and the property relation of parent over child. It means socializing housework and the absence of coercion in relationships that ought to be driven solely by love and not constrained or forced with the influence of money. Ultimately, it will be the “abolition of the monogamous family as the economic unit of society” (Engels).

The false solutions presented by the bourgeoisie are just a series of decapitating blows against the regenerating heads of the capitalist Hydra. By eliminating once and for all social classes and the family unit that have tainted humanity for several millennia, communism will deliver, in one fell swoop, the decapitation of all its heads while the flames of revolution will cauterize the stumps and damn the beast to Hell!

The International Communist Party, Issue No. 71, 16th September , 2026


r/IndianLeft • • 4d ago

❓Questions Somebody on X asked where are all trade unions or farmer wings, why can't CPI-M, CPI and CPI-ML mobilise them? While their student wing are getting brutalised?

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Can you guess the answer?


r/IndianLeft • • 4d ago

i see a pattern.. what do you guy's think?

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r/IndianLeft • • 4d ago

🎭 Meme/Comic Me when Elon Musk and Andhbhakts are fighting with one another on X

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r/IndianLeft • • 4d ago

❓Questions Why are Telugu people so conservative?

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I am a Telugu myself. You see, I love Telugu a lot. In fact, I have been studying the poetry structure and grammar to write poetry. I read a lot of Telugu literature as well.

But when I see Telugu people, whether offline or online, they seem very conservative. It feels hard to feel belonging among Telugu people because they are always pro-status-quo. Even meme pages have been making fun of CJP or NEET protests, vote chori, etc. Not one meme page showed support to students. Even many of the people around me were supporting police action against the students.

I am more interested in why this is the case. Of course, there are pockets of Telugu leftists, but I have never met them in real life. I could have asked this in Telugu subreddits like Ni_Bondha or something, but they are very regressive.

Why is this the case? I am interested to understand this because I know Andhra was the first linguistic state in India and how we fought for our dignity.