Anti-caste Movements of India and the need of a Revolutionary Class-based Anti-Caste Movem

Sun, Jun 21, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Anti-caste Movements of Ayyankali, Phule, Periyar, Ambedkar and the need of a Revolutionary Class-based Anti-Caste Movement

In order to devise a correct understanding of a revolutionary anti-caste movement needed today, we must develop a critical relation with the anti-caste movements of past. We must also understand the mistakes committed by the revolutionary communist movement in understanding the caste question. Only through critique, can we develop a correct theory. In this process, we will attempt to present some tentative proposals for building a non-identitarian, non-pragmatist, revolutionary class-based anti-caste movement.
Speaker: Abhinav Sinha
(Editor, 'Mazdoor Bigul', Writer 'Red Polemique' Blog and Political Activist, Delhi, India)

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