Re: [IAC#RG] The ONE issue for the IAC movement.

It will be useful instead of shoveling conclusions as universal facts, we actually attempt to provide some sort of reasoning for it. In the sense of !,2,3,blah. This is why I think ABC is failing and XYZ will be better for us, etc.

For the record, I'm not a socialist (or any other "ism-ist"). I do have a generic leftist tendency, but it isn't similar to anything we see in the public/politics front. I do believe that with our population, it is impossible to progress in any meaningful manner with some form of leftist systems - I don't have any conclusions on what they are or should be, but I don't think any large party is actually left wing in a political sense in India - except *maybe* some of CPI(M) - though the constitution says socialist. We simply have labels like people have team names - without much significance to their meaning.

So our dominant right wing is asking for a Uniform Civil Code, our supposed left wing is opposing it, the icon of the right wing is socialist Bhagat Singh, the socialist paragon of the left wing is highly religious nationalist Gandhi, "welfare" is funding to poor to support capitalist entities, "unprofitable" aspects of the country from art forms to age old knowledge are withering, professions of money have taken over professions of knowledge as social trends for what gets respected and so on. It is a garbled mess and has little meaning beyond the names of gangs to identify themselves in an all out gangwar.

To call this socialism simply because you dislike socialism may feel satisfying, but makes no sense. This is not to say socialism is right, but there's gotta be a better reason for *blaming* it for everything under the sun than "everybody knows".

We need to find solutions for ground realities. Labels are counterproductive - particularly in a country like India where the labels are not descriptors of realities.

Vidyut