SHI: The Rapeublic of India is taking a leaf out of the PRC book when it detains Kashmiri politicians and opposition leaders. So every time I read about the Uyghurs in China, it rings close because the Indian fascist regime is engaged in closely similar tactics.
They’re different countries. China is a Communist dictatorship. Commies don’t mess around. They kill people, put lots of people in prisons, etc. It’s just what they do.
India is theoretically a democracy. They should not be acting like a totalitarian state. That’s way out of line.
To me, China runs on the Maoist principle of serve the people. They are also one of the countries on Earth (unlike us) who believe in the greatest good for the greatest number. They really are out to help everyone, with a special emphasis on the poor. Does India (or the US for that matter) work on the principle of the greatest good for the greatest number? Of course not.
India has utterly failed its poor. India and China were approximately equal on most social figures in 1949. Since then, China has leaped far ahead of India.
And the Indian capitalist system has resulted in 200 million excess deaths compared to China since 1949. That is, if they had followed the Chinese model, 200 million lives would have been saved. There are still 4 million excess deaths in India every year compared to China. Check out Amartya Sen’s work. That’s where I got most of these figures.
Further, at least 30 years ago, 14 million people died of malnutrition and hunger-related illnesses every year in the world. Most of those deaths were in South Asia. In my opinion, most of those deaths are tied into the private ownership of land (I am talking farmland here).
Neither India nor Pakistan, Bangladesh, or Nepal ever did a proper land reform. The issue comes up from time to time in India, but the Indian state is ruled by large landowners (instead of corporations), so it never gets implemented. India’s going to have terrible problems until they do a proper land reform.
for Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh. Pakistan still has semi-feudal land relations with debt bondage and sharecropping, and it also has always been ruled by large semi-feudal landowners.
Some quotes about India from recent travelers. You gotta love the fetishization of Westerners.
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Really nice quotes, thanks!
I knew you’d like them. Nice find for my collection as well, says a lot really.
I prefer Ancient India. If only they retained Indus Valley Civ. level hygeine.
I have one more:
Look, man, I am banning you. It’s quite appalling that you are a Sikh. Are Sikhs normally this wildly Hindutvadi? We don’t allow Hindutvadis on here, sorry, pal. Shiv Sena is thattaway ——->.