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Mumbai's Jai Bhim Nagar sees massive illegal demolitions
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Some points I think deserve mentioning - Jai Bhim Nagar consists of mostly Dalit and Bahujan people. Them being chosen as easy targets multiplies the inhumanity of this action. - Some popular builders in Powai (Hiranandani and the like) have seized most of the land to build their own estates and this continues to today. - That the demolition is illegal is based in the inhuman way it was carried out, which was in contravention of a Government Resolution that resolves not to demolish structures within the monsoon months. Slum rehabilitation laws exist for this purpose as well.

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Tyranny is Tyranny - Manufacturing Truth
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    Funny thing is as I opened the keyboard my app crashed. The joke will not let anybody else write itself.

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    And that, is why we must accept Ludditism where we can, as a way to oppose misguided tech development.

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    Why is individualism a bad thing?
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    Individualism was constructed by the bourgeoisie as an ideal so that they could freely exploit wage labour. They successfully couched it up in an idea of "liberty" with the help of some really insincere philosophy and tied it to the idea of personal growth (in places, even spirituality itself).

    But this was all so that they could utilise wage labour as atomic parts of their industrial mechanism whenever they chose to.

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    Do you think we are suffering from a severe trust deficit?
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    Agree with everything you said, and I don't have much more to add except to say that I was thinking of perfect knowledge as in if only the workings of institutions were known to all, not how they occur on a daily basis (let's say because of an efficient education system, or media giving all the relavent info). Compare this to current day knowledge of people, where they have to depend on a lawyer or agent or someone in the know. In either case, capitalism would succeed in obstructing any legitimate public good because it is capital and financial interests that dictates these institutions workings on a daily basis. So this is an argument against "institutions" we "trust" being for our good.

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    Do you think we are suffering from a severe trust deficit?
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    The median person has no trust in any system because they cannot begin to understand their workings.

    This is what I was getting at as well. That maybe the bigger question is should we be considering the inner workings of any political system easily representable to the median person by even the most transparency imaginable. And as a thought experiment, even in a society where everyone has perfect knowledge of the system, can we trust this system to work as it says it will?

    Because, even if we consider all requirements of political trust, transparency, accountability, institutional strength et al as worked out, the system still remains oppressive.

    Since there are tons of academic papers and political theorisations in the liberal world about these concepts, I am looking for leftist critiques that engage with these ideals that are a facade if anything.

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    There are two broad ways I can think of this and firstly it is the trust we place in our financial system. Right from the value of our currency to monetary policy, we trust the government to make fiscal decisions on our behalf. We trust the government to transparently allocate public funds. Not like PM Cares, which we have no relief to now, despite the duplicitous effort by our head of state. Heck, even in a regular transaction, we assume that we will get infrastructure that works rather than fails. All of this is a basic assumption that fails with events like demonetisation when they are conducted unilaterally.

    The other way I spoke of trust is the liberal ideal of trust in institutions. Like if the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare says that COVID numbers are of a certain amount, people would report on that. But in states like Gujarat that basic premise was lost and courts had to bring up authorities to correct the numbers. So one institution helped another cover the trust deficit in this case (but we all know the caste class character of these institutions and who they really end up representing in neoliberalism).

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    Do you think we are suffering from a severe trust deficit?

    Our system is based on trust to a large extent. And I don't mean just monetarily. It is basically how "liberal society" functions right from daily life to the rationale behind systemic activities. Yet, fake news is basically propagated everywhere with impunity. Facts are alleged and agreed on social media without any deference to proof that says otherwise. There are probably more such examples in media - [Prashant Kishore](https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=kJHJ_rewFI4) said in his recent interview with Karan Thapar he cannot count on newspapers, he wants a recording of what he said (aside from the fact that this is laughable beyond measure), the fact that people are beginning to claim that newspapers (rather multiple) are not reliable is quite something even for the fascist timeline we are in. Perhaps what has been most concerning has been the way in which the Election Commission of India has avoided all responsibility for the most basic repositories of trust, the general elections. It does seem like this point in our decay was a long time coming with the fascists in power and them dogwhistling any opposition's efforts, but some of these effects will be long-lasting. I do not think the political system can recover from a compromised EC. As leftists, how do we interpret this? What impacts does this have for the working class that is forced to sell its labour in exchange for participating in a trust based economy? We surely are placed more precariously but organising around this will require some acceptance of seemingly contradictory positions regarding the role of trust in a political system (IMO we have to make efforts around thinking of a system without trust in the same way it exists in liberalism and consequently, neoliberalism)

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    Tips on coping with the climate crisis and its effects?
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    I don't think individual action can amount to much. Hence now I am seriously considering working with an organisation that works on ground in the environmental sector.

    Organic farms, communitarian organisations, animal rescue centres, citizens' fora all seem to be places where you can make a genuine organised effort, while feeling more connected to nature. Bonus points if they are socialist. In fact, I'd only go if they were at least socialistic about their praxis.

    During COVID, I learnt by observation that such on ground organisations are the ones that determine a neighbourhood's resilience to a natural disaster. Hence volunteering to socialistic organisations made me feel less like I am sitting by watching the climate crisis unfold.

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    Muslimgauze ‎– Hamas Arc (1993) [FULL ALBUM]
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    [He said in a 1994 interview, "I don't think you can visit an occupied land. It's the principle. Not until it's free again."](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslimgauze)

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    Tweet in support of Maharashtrian farmers today - AIKS
    https://mobile.twitter.com/KisanSabha/status/1585331354287239168#m
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    If you could rename anything, what would it be? and what would it be to?
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    Highways shouldn't be unlit in the first place, I ate my words for breakfast

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  • If you could rename anything, what would it be? and what would it be to?
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    Let's settle for renaming all highways to heavy vehicle transit facilities

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  • If you could rename anything, what would it be? and what would it be to?
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    I would rename car (and only car) headlights to car-torches, because driving with those on unlit highways doesn't make sense to me

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  • Meme
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    Photons came after the development of the scientific method and thus have a more proximate relationship with scientific purpose, rather than a mystical metaphor to whom we can only re-attribute purpose at this point.

    Edit: Photons have contributed to our understanding of light, due to their scientific formulation by Einstein (amongst others), thus making their application in devices such as lasers possible. What of the "spirits" metaphors? Where do we apply them?

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    There are some subtle effects of his theory, which lead to the disregard for prudence in production and consumption, such as the ecofascists' belief that overpopulation is the reason for all our traffic woes, not the inherently illogical system of using cars for every daily commute.

    I agree with what you said, I'm just trying to engage with the stupidity of preferring cars.

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    Ecofascism and its Malthussian variants in philosophy have had very subtle impacts on our psyche, IMO

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    July 2022 C.C. of CPI (M) - Report on Political Developments
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    *Summing Up* The BJP is on the offensive using and misusing state power to push its communal-corporate agenda. The secular opposition parties are unable to put up a convincing united fight even on agreed issues. As stated in the Party Congress resolution, the Congress party in the intervening period has further shown its inability to rally all the secular forces against the BJP. In such a situation it is essential for the Party to gear up its independent activities at all levels while making sincere efforts for Left unity. In this period in some States the party has successfully organised programmes and mobilisations along with other democratic and secular forces against the communalism of the BJP-RSS. These efforts should intensify. The Party must devote its energies in building up such struggles at the local and State level while simultaneously uniting people against the communal bulldozer politics of the BJP-RSS. **CC Calls** *August 1-15*, Observe 75th Anniversary of India’s Independence, culminating in the hoisting of the National Flag in Party offices and taking a pledge on the preamble of the Constitution. The campaign should highlight the role of the Communists in the Freedom Struggle; defense of democracy; democratic rights; civil liberties and India’s secular, democratic, Constitutional values. *From September 14 to 24*, conduct a campaign on the increasing assaults on people’s livelihood. Concrete plan of action in each state should be planned by the state committees. This campaign will culminate in a central public meeting at state capitals. As decided by the 23rd Congress, strengthening of local struggles on local problems facing the people must be prioritized. To conduct campaigns against the efforts to destabilize the Kerala LDF government all across the country. The campaign must also include the highlights of the pro-people alternative policies pursued by the LDF government.

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    Y'all know any good revolutionary/communist fiction?
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    The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin

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  • Any clarification on the origin of COVID?
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    Regulation, comrade.

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  • Any clarification on the origin of COVID?
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    It's not illegal to medicate against the pathogens in industrialised animal rearing because in those places it is easier to contain the spread due to the implication of an industry, that has it's own enforcement mechanisms, and often times, is based on the scaling up of scientific practices itself, but with wet markets that have to be cracked down upon, the issue is there are many people eating from what has been scientifically discovered to be likely to give you a contagious disease. Something that I also find has it's own literature in international law, and for good reason.

    If it's risky enough to demand border controls since ages (see history of epidemics), the inherent problem doesn't become the industrialisation of race-specific preferences (if you may argue that wet markets are an industry), but the common good of humanity.

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  • Any clarification on the origin of COVID?
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    Okay, sorry, I just thought the "wet markets" shutting down shops and being admitted by the Chinese government was enough proof for me. But sorry if I hurt your sentiments. News of the Chinese government crackdown AFTER the COVID-19 infection, including official Chinese media sources

    Will scientific government not be a part of scientific socialism, comrades? CITES Convention names many of the species named to be consumed there, per the scientific community's understanding of what animals can be traded and to which establishments (mostly zoos, sanctuaries, etc.).

    It is what inspired the crackdown that the Chinese sources have reported on.

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    I don't have a narrative to peddle here, but not consuming wild animals is something Chinese law enforcement should have worked on better.

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    So I have a question about "fitting in" with neoliberalism
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    Penitentiary facilities here are overcrowded to no end, so putting people in harm's way does not bode well, nor does the militaristic policing in destitute conditions follow the rule of law. So, it's an entirely different problem in underdeveloped, caste-ridden countries.

    But there is hope for some sort of collective understanding because "brr we're following no rules" also opens up for a social cohesion against "the Big Other" that is perceivable here (everywhere?).

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    So I have a question about "fitting in" with neoliberalism

    Hi, I have a question that I can't find any one else talking about in the texts/posts I've read so far. I've been thinking that if everyone is capable of being brainwashed by capitalist realism, save if they have in some way picked up on communist ideas, they could be being anything on the right side of the political spectrum. To me, it seems, staying in a traditional country, conservatism is coded in reality, just like in some non-traditional countries, liberalism is more likely to be found (sorry if I'm being simplistic, I am of course open to explaining this further). To relate with people in neoliberalism, where nobody is benefitting except the upper castes (also known as oppressor castes here), one must either align with conservative or liberal values? But praxis also involves taking radical steps in daily life, organising, informing, educating. Is there anyone who has written about this from the point of view of how someone who has been "radicalised" can align their views more relevantly, to relate and to a better job at praxis? What do you comrades think?

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