Student Organizing, Modi's Government, and Indian Communism
Revolutionary Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Rea joins the show to discuss student organizing, her experiences in America as an Indian immigrant, the Modi government in India, the different manifestations of Indian communist movements, and much more!
History of Land Grant Universities
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/11/08/dark-history-land-grant-universities/
Case of Rohith Vemula
https://thewire.in/caste/rohith-vemula-letter-a-powerful-indictment-of-social-prejudices
"The Doctor and the Saint" by Arundhathi Roy
RSS and Nationalism in India https://www.npr.org/2019/05/03/706808616/the-powerful-group-shaping-the-rise-of-hindu-nationalism-in-india
Israel and India / Zionism and Hindutva https://wearyourvoicemag.com/hindutva-zionism-ethnonationalist-states-two-sides-same-coin/
India’s Response to Corona Virus https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/03/india-coronavirus-covid19-narendra-modi/608896/
Outro music 'Yankee and the Brave (ep. 4)' by Run The Jewels
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio. On today's episode we have my friend |
| 0:11.7 | and comrade Rhea on to talk about student organizing and then in the second half of our |
| 0:16.6 | discussion we talk about Indian politics, Modi, a little bit about the Naxalites and the |
| 0:22.7 | Communist Party of India, some feminist thinkers that have come out of India, how India is |
| 0:28.1 | responding to COVID-19 etc. So this is a sort of two-part conversation and the first part we |
| 0:33.7 | really talk about student organizing and in the second part we get into Indian politics, |
| 0:38.6 | communist movements in India, Hindu nationalism etc. So it's wide-ranging, compelling, |
| 0:45.9 | informative and fascinating. So I hope you enjoy this episode of my friend Rhea. |
| 0:58.1 | Hello my name's Rhea. I am a Marxist-Leninist. I went to the University of Texas at Austin and I'm |
| 1:13.2 | currently based in kind of in between the Bay Area in California and Central Texas with my family. |
| 1:20.3 | So that's a little bit about me. I've kind of been involved with multiple different organizations, |
| 1:27.5 | everywhere from like a democratic socialist type organization through malice organizations. |
| 1:33.5 | So I kind of have a wide range of organizing experiences as well as student organizing when I was a |
| 1:39.3 | student at the University of Texas at Austin and I'm really looking forward to having a conversation |
| 1:44.8 | with you about my thoughts and politics. Absolutely and we're definitely honored to have you on. I know |
| 1:50.2 | you describe yourself as a Marxist-Leninist before we get into the questions. Could you maybe talk |
| 1:54.7 | a little bit about what events or experiences in your life sort of radicalized you or pushed you |
| 1:59.9 | towards the left in general but Marxism and Leninism specifically? Sure so this is kind of embarrassing |
| 2:08.4 | but I was a debater back in high school. I know other people have talked about that on the show |
| 2:14.9 | but one of the positive consequences of that was just kind of an introduction to a lot of like |
| 2:19.5 | critical theory, feminist authors, anti-capitalist authors and things like that. So that along with |
| 2:26.7 | the death of Trayvon Martin happened while I was in high school so that really like ignited |
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