Karl Marx theory on changing condition in India ?
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The year 2018 marks the bicentenary of Karl Marx, a philosopher and thinker who is partially understood without being read by his critics. Marx doesn’t lack vocal critics but in my opinion, it is the need of the hour to argue how Marx helps us understands Indian society and what lies ahead.
In a nation like India, the vision of Karl Marx has enough relevance due to deep-rooted class and caste discrimination. His renowned work with Friedrich Engels is on the contradictions of capitalism. Capitalism’s profit-making tendency eats up surplus labour and makes overproduction inevitable. This means capitalism keeps facing recurring crises.
Marx read history through the lens of class struggle. ‘Class’ in Marxism is determined by one’s relation to the means of production. Marx didn’t invent the idea of socialism – there were socialists before Marx. However, Marx and Engels did come up with ‘scientific socialism’, in contrast to the ‘utopian socialism’ that had existed before.
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Marxist Analysis of Indian Society
Prakash Karat At the 20th Anniversary Meeting
of Marxbadi Path, 26th August, 2000
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The purpose of conducting a Marxist analysis of Indian society should be to outline a roadmap of how to end the multifaceted exploitation of the Indian people. The primary goal of any revolutionary movement in India should be directed towards eliminating the system of social and class exploitation which has kept the largest mass of humanity in any single country in the thrall of oppression. In terms of numbers, India's poor constitutes the single largest contingent of the world's poverty stricken. There are poorer people in the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, but in sheer numbers the goal of eliminating world poverty cannot succeed without the elimination of poverty in India and South Asia.