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Isn't Kerala ran by literal communists? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism_in_Kerala https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism_in_Kerala Edit: downvote

Isn't Kerala ran by literal communists? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism_in_Kerala https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism_in_Kerala Edit: downvoters should instead explain to me why my point is wrong. Kerala has been ran by the local communist parties for most of the last 40 years, and communists keep winning majorities there. Seems to go against the OP claim https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Democratic_Front_(Kerala) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Democratic_Front_(Keral... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Kerala_Legislative_Assembly_election https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Kerala_Legislative_Asse... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Kerala_Legislative_Assembly_election https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Kerala_Legislative_Asse... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Kerala_Legislative_Assembly_election https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Kerala_Legislative_Asse... And so on, the communists and the other party trade power most elections.

int_19h 6y ago
Communism (in the sense that the Kerala communists are using that term) is a Western ideology - its originators were Western political philosophers, and they themselves saw it as the logical next step from Western rationalism and liberalism. And I haven't heard of communists opposed to industrialization and urbanization, with the exception of Khmer Rouge (who were arguably not even communists for this exact reason).
rayiner 6y ago
Kerala undertook market liberalization in the 1990s. Today, the debate is over privatizing state owned industries like water, railroads, and local hospitals (which are publicly owned in many western countries). Vietnam is also technically still a communist country, but is in practice one of the pro-market countries in the world.

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Isn't Kerala ran by literal communists? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism_in_Kerala https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism_in_Kerala Edit: downvote

by Der_Einzige 6y ago

int_19h 6y ago
Communism (in the sense that the Kerala communists are using that term) is a Western ideology - its originators were Western political philosophers, and they themselves saw it as the logical next step from Western rationalism and liberalism. And I haven't heard of communists opposed to industrialization and urbanization, with the exception of Khmer Rouge (who were arguably not even communists for this exact reason).
rayiner 6y ago
Kerala undertook market liberalization in the 1990s. Today, the debate is over privatizing state owned industries like water, railroads, and local hospitals (which are publicly owned in many western countries). Vietnam is also technically still a communist country, but is in practice one of the pro-market countries in the world.