Prabhat Patnaik, Political Economist, speaks at the EMS Smrithi - a two day National Conference organized on the 115th birth anniversary of comrade EMS Namboodiripad in Thrissur.
For all its historical faults, the real left traditions as a broader coalition have always maintained a legacy of intellectual excellence and cognitive seriousness. Happy to see even statist parties like CPIM continue that legacy especially under current politico - cultural conditions of mediocrity and decadence. Prof. Patnaik was an absolute treat to listen to, how succinct and how valid and how topically relevant. Long Live Free Speech Jai Hind 🇮🇳🙏
Comrade, the examples you cited to assert rise of fascism are all from Western Europe and US. Asia, Africa and South America were 85% of the planet's population lives this surge is not as much apparent : with the exception of India and Turkey.
Simple. CPIM is the organization that hosted this scholar on this occasion and for this lecture. It makes everything perfectly in place and is as expected from the Communist party to make spaces for intellectual discourses. The only rotten and out of place thing in the context of this video is the presence of prejudiced people on moral high horses like yourself lamenting about the host's name being seen on a video hosted on their own channel.
Lol hundreds, millions of things were not discussed or can be discussed by one speaker in one setting, so? That doesn't mean the speaker was evading or incompetent or fraudulent 😂
As far as state repression is concerned - a Fascist and a Leninist state have certain similarities. But in terms of economic programs and their relevance to social development, communism and fascism are at two opposite ends. They just don't match.
