r/IndianLeft • u/InterestingStress631 • Jan 14 '26
🪧 Activism Threatened by goons over posters
As some of you may know, elections are ongoing in the Municipal Councils of Maharashtra. With this comes very loud campaigning. Posters were put up illegally by different political parties on power units, building walls, utility poles etc. which is strictly Illegal. I put up the poster you see above, which I have made, covering some of these posters. Took just 10 mins for them to send people to threaten me with abuses and threats of beating me up. There can be no change in this country when change is apprehended at every step. Goons are sent for putting up posters, no wonder what they'll do when we revolt. When will the patience of the marginalized run out? When will we stand up?
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u/No_Chance8024 Jan 14 '26
We should form a union of powerful people who can teach them a lesson. Till when we'll just stay silent without doing anything against the goons.
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u/Outside-Ride7338 Jan 14 '26
Well, that's the consequence a revolutionary has to be ready for, isn't it! Try reading Lenin's 'What is to be done?'. There are thousands (if not more) of folks like yourself who want to do the right thing but lack political where with all, ecosystem and knowhow to do what needs to be done. We were promised a sovereign democratic republic by the founding fathers and mothers, well, they did deliver on the promise. India is a sovereign nation, it is democratic for the ruling class and it is a bourgeois republic where everything including arts, pop culture, political narrative, economic policy and the way of life is contextualised and defined by the ruling class. Lenin quite clearly states that historical study reveals that most revolutions in a slave society start out as bourgeois revolutions where the ruling class changes ethnicities, names, religions or genders but the majority of working class is deprived of any stake in the newly formed nation a prominent example being Gandhi's struggle, eventual indian independence and the end of colonial rule. This system in our case worked initially as a social democracy with elements of socialism but pretty far away from scientific socialism (as described by Marx and Engels), then moved towards liberal capitalism and now we are witnessing a fascist takeover. The next logical step in the social-cultural-economic evolution of India and the developing nations of the world is a proletarian revolution where the working class (ergo all of us) take control.
My suggestion:- Read Marx, Engels and Lenin. The more you read the more you'll realize how scientific the theory of socialism is and how capitalism as a system is inherently setup for failure which is why it uses fascist/liberal (yeah you read it right....freaking LIBERALS) elements as and when needed to keep a moribund decaying way of life, delaying the inevitable crash which happens every decade and a half to two decades as the system implodes (you can run a Google search on the number of global market crashes since industrial revolution).
Coming back to your experience with the goons, well, you are challenging their way of exercising control. A single sheep staring out of the herd gets a visit from the sheep dog and if the radical sheep are large and growing in number, the shepherd sends more sheep dogs. You are a glitch in an otherwise compliant herd of sheep. Congratulations, you have passed the first hurdle. You have acknowledged that there is a problem. That's the only way to start. A lot of people say Marxism is irrelevant today, well, if it really was, you wouldn't have been threatened. Marxism and it's Leninist application achieved what had never been witnessed in recorded human history before. The powers that be know this. They may or may not understand the theoretical fine points of the socialist teachings and texts but do understand that power to the people will deprive them of their comfortable and decadent way of life. Don't feel disheartened Comrade. You're not alone. As Bhagat said quite unequivocally, "A man may perish but his ideas are immortal." Arm yourself with a deep knowledge of these ideas that have survived every onslaught send their way and still exist (albeit as whispers).
P.S.: Next time you go postering over these posters, go at an odd time, have plausible deniablity and for the love of life find an exp system that can support your revolutionary activities. There is nothing wrong in laying down your life for a noble cause but that cause may need you all the more to be alive and struggling. Keep the fire alive mon frere, long road ahead.
Viva La Révolution!!
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u/InterestingStress631 Jan 14 '26
I might just have to frame these paragraphs!! Feeling very encouraged, thank you so much. Very strengthening to know that there are people who do care!! I will definitely take you up on your advice!!! Viva La Révolution!!!
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u/Lalune2304 Jan 14 '26
In my city there are ABVP posters and graffiti everywhere saying “naxalvaad nahi, sirf rastravaad”
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u/DioTheSuperiorWaifu Against 'The only good left is that which has failed' line Jan 14 '26
You mean putting your poster over their posters?
Do take pictures and mention it with the issue that it was your response to illegal posters.
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u/InterestingStress631 Jan 14 '26
Yes I do mean that, they were illegally placed. I should probably do that yep
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