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[–] Mokey2@hexbear.net 49 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

Everything about India sounds so miserable, like imagine if they went communist like the Chinese did.

@jackmarxist@hexbear.net

Can you share any good or promising things about India? What I can see from social media seems very bleak.

[–] Esoteir@hexbear.net 51 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

iirc kerala is pretty cool, they regularly elect marxist communists and while it's not a socialist state by any means, they've done good things working in the confines of the liberal framework with stuff like the highest minimum wage in india and a strong protest scene

[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 58 points 2 weeks ago

Kerala is run by a Communist Party and they're the most literate state in India. Plus communal harmony is also the best in Kerala.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 36 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And their maternal mortality rate is lower than it is in many U.S. states (Georgia, Texas, etc.)

[–] Mokey2@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

Lmao us dont be evil and bad challenge

[–] Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 1 week ago

Kerala has done decently well.
The current govt has aimed at eradicating extreme poverty from Kerala by the end of the next year.
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/kerala-rolls-out-plan-to-eradicate-extreme-poverty-by-2025-2422621-2023-08-17

It may not be according to Western standards, but it's still a very cool initiative.

There's also the Nava Kerala mission
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nava_Kerala_Mission
Nava means New in Malayalam, the main language used in Kerala.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 week ago

Kerala is unironically the best state of India and unbelievably based

[–] Mokey2@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

Thats whats up

[–] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 34 points 1 week ago

imagine if they went communist like the Chinese did

They were Soviet Aligned for most of the Cold War. But the division between Hindus and Muslims eventually created a wedge that western capital could leverage to break the leftist tendencies of the earlier governments, ending with Chaudhary Charan Singh. By the 80s, they'd begun a full transition to neoliberal governance.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago

while we're asking questions where can I find a historical materialist examination of the whole Operation Blue Star incident and the leadup to it.

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are you asking this from the point a tourist? Or generally in terms of the direction the country is headed in?

If you wanna travel then I don't good advice but Kerala and the Himalayas are very beautiful, though the latter spills over to Nepal.

For the other question I would say the outlook id overall pessimistic.

[–] Mokey2@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago
[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nothing is cool about India except Kerala and some states in the north east. North India is a shithole.

[–] Mokey2@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Why was this removed by mod? Im just trying to learn and be less ignorant

Like if jack was mad my bad

[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

Idk why it was removed. I praised Kerala and gave my opinion on north India.

[–] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

this is like saying europe is a shithole because europeans in america shoot up schools

whites try to know anything about the world at all (challenge impossible ik)

also 3 of those top 13 cities are european and one of them's even in italy lmfao (despite having 80x the GDP)

[–] Mokey2@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

not my job to explain the obvious

[–] Mokey2@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

Going to block