Wang Jing: The left wing of India is Violently suppressed by the right, what is the way forward?
Summary
The historical development path of Indian neoliberalism generally follows the sequential evolution of pre-neoliberalism, secular neoliberalism and Hindutva neoliberalism. Each key transition begins with a “crisis”: After the planned economy-centered independent industrialization fell into trouble, the Congress Party began to turn to neoliberalism.
When the secular neoliberalism led by the Congress Party fell into crisis, it then entered the period of “Hindu neoliberalism” led by the Modi’s Indian BJP Party.
This article focuses on the background of the rise of Hindutva neoliberalism led by the BJP and the profound changes it has brought to India’s political and economic order. Within the totalitarian political framework of the Hindu caste system, neoliberalism operates at a faster speed and with greater intensity, and the result inevitably brings greater uneven development and a more serious accumulation crisis. Under the drastic changes in the political and economic order and the attack of the far-right regime, the Indian left wing has been weakened to a considerable extent and has been forced to embark on a comprehensive transformation at the strategic and tactical levels.
Keywords: neoliberalism, parliamentary left, revolutionary left, New Left Alliance, Secular Democratic Alliance
The “Hindutva Neoliberalism” strategic agenda implemented by the Bharatiya Janata Party (hereinafter referred to as the “BJP”) after coming to power in 2014 is the continuation and deepening of the global neoliberalization process in India since the 1990s. , it is also a mandatory adjustment according to time and place after the neoliberal order encounters crisis and resistance. To some extent, this reflects the inherent contradictions of the capitalist system in India and even the world: First , the most distinctive feature of Hindu neoliberalism is the combination of extreme right-wing political conservatism and extreme economic liberalism, which presents an extremely rare phenomenon in history. The intricate “economic-political-religious-cultural” complex structure. Second , there are irreconcilable contradictions and ruptures between the economic practices of the Indian Party and its political and religious organizational model. At the political and religious levels, the Indian Party claims to “pursue the happiness of the people” and mobilizes the vast underclass of Indians through religious power; at the economic level, Hindu neoliberalism is still weak in rebuilding capital accumulation, but it is maintaining It has a remarkable effect in expanding large private interest groups. Third , the Hindutva neoliberal model emerged as a new solution and political attempt after the neoliberal policies implemented by the Congress Party fell into crisis, that is, within the totalitarian political framework of the Hindu caste system. Running neoliberalism at a faster speed and with greater intensity will inevitably lead to greater imbalances in development and a more serious accumulation crisis.
Under the pressure of the powerful far-right central government, the Indian left wing has been suppressed as a whole. Under new historical conditions, the Indian left is forced to undergo a comprehensive transformation at the strategic and tactical levels, in which the extremely anti-democratic nature of Hindu neoliberalism has become a new focus of political struggle. In the new political environment, the unity and integration of the Indian left wing have become issues of concern to all parties. Whether the Indian left wing can get out of its long-standing state of dispersion, division and even hostility has become an important variable in Indian politics.
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