[lbo-talk] Roy on Indian election

[Dennis Redmond]

> Nevertheless, she goes in for the fashionable anticommunism that
> characterizes so many progressive intellectuals in both the Third World
> and First (*The God of Small Things* is politically unfair at times)

No, "Small Things" seems pretty accurate about the limitations of the
1960s Communist parties and Left movements. From what little I know about
India, the comrades did many fine things, but they didn't have an answer
for the problem of caste; identity-politics was thought of as a petty
bourgeois distraction, which had to wait for the Revolution. (Uhlas,
correct me if I'm wrong on this.)


> Taking power and actually
> changing the picture -- winning, in other words -- is not on her agenda

Victory can't always be quantified. For most working people, just
surviving another day in this hellish system is a victory.

-- DRR