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  • Kerala is a limited experiment and hardly an example of socialists winning. CPI(M) is constantly losing Kerala. The wins in Kerala are comparable to social democrats in the global south, which is not nothing, but this also does not mean they are following a communist program - which you can see in their chauvinist takes.

    Nicaragua had a socialist revolution. It is a challenging one highly disrupted by the Unites States. They are doing surprisingly well given their geological position. Sandanismo has not fully subverted itself to electoralism, it still has an armed wing and internal struggle.

    Venezuela is run by SocDems. The current Venezuelan government is actually cracking down on MLs.


  • Yeah CPI(M) ia a good ezample of what happens when a socialist organization subverts itself to bourgeois electoralism. There are many parallels with the SPD and trying to defend their officials and cater to mainstream liberal discourse and inatitutions. But they have little excuse, as this approach haa been tried and always fails, and is literally the antithesis of what MLs have learned from history. CPI(M) saddles itself with so many albatrosses, is so lackadaisical, and fails to have basic coherent theory and solidarity. Unsurprisingly Vijay Prashad has these same chauvinist hangups and is himself a member of CPI(M).