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Why is Kerala leagues ahead other Indian regions/counties in terms of ... everything.

Geography? Anglo trading infrastructure?
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it's filled with shit flinging dravidians that live off of sewage and dead rats
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>>16537531
superior aboriginal genes.
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>>16537531
Communist party stronghold.
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Geography and it's own will. It didn't have to bear the brunt of the invading Huns or Muslims like Northern India, and in the meantime was able to form vast trading networks spanning the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and the Horn of Africa
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India has followed a protectionist plus internal socialist model since independence, with varying results based on how much corruption ends up stopping its people from developing. South India, which has since the late 19th century had a dominant left-wing movement, takes this a bit further, with Kerala being the furthest of all of them.

It helps that there's very little sectarian or caste based violence or religious based resentment, as they all see themselves as Keralites above all. It's basically a small European-style social democracy in India.
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>>16537625
The Washington Post a few years ago:

>Instead of ossifying into an autocratic force, Kerala’s communists embraced electoral politics and since 1957 have been routinely voted into power. Instead of being associated with repression or failure, the party of Marx is widely associated with huge investments in education that have produced a 95 percent literacy rate, the highest in India, and a health-care system where citizens earning only a few dollars a day still qualify for free heart surgery. This modern incarnation of communism also has produced one of the stranger paradoxes of the global economy: millions of healthy, educated workers setting off to the supercharged, capitalist economies of the Persian Gulf dreaming of riches and increasingly finding them.

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>The story of communism in Kerala did not begin with a revolution, the storming of the capital or even Marx. Instead, its beginnings in 1939 were far more idiosyncratic, rooted in resistance to British rule, a commitment to land reform and opposition to India’s caste system. It was also intimately tied to a traveling musical, “You Made Me a Communist,” about peasants who banded together to fight an evil feudal landlord. The play premiered in 1952, drew big crowds and helped the party win its first election five years later. Another decade passed before the “Communist Manifesto,” Marx’s account of the contradictions of capitalism, was even translated into Malayalam, the local language.

>And while Kerala’s communists borrowed the symbols of the Soviet Union ... they also embraced their own local heroes and followed their own distinct path. Unlike communists in China, Latin America or Eastern Europe, party leaders in Kerala never seized factories — the “means of production,” in the words of Marx — or banned private property. Instead, they competed in elections with the center-left Indian National Congress party, winning some years and losing others.
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>>16537866
>For many, especially the young, communism today is more about the ideal of equal opportunity than the ideology of Marx or Lenin. “We believe all people are the same class and should have the same chance in life,” said Shigin Pradeesh, 20, a university student and son of a low-wage coconut picker, who was waiting by the front desk of the party headquarters in the village of Pinarayi. “I am not a selfish person,” he said. “That’s why I am a communist.”

>In Kerala, the communist idea often survives in the most parochial of ways. When the party decided to open a worker-owned amusement park cooperative, some party officials complained that the proposed name — “Malabar Pleasures” — was misguided. Pleasure, after all, is a “bourgeois” concept. The name was changed to “Incredible Park.”

>Ultimately, communism in Kerala has remained Indian. At a time of rising Hindu nationalism, the party’s classes for young children — a communist version of Sunday school — emphasize a secular Indian identity.
“We are not Christians or Muslims or Hindus,” sang a group of barefoot boys and girls in Kerala’s capital of Thiruvananthapuram, near the southern tip of India. “Hunger is the same for us all; pain is the same for us all. Our blood has the same color; our tears the same taste.”

Malayalam communist campaign song:
https://youtu.be/IdND4ws-VcA
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>>16537866
>>16537889
So it was because they weren't Slavs or within the tendrils of imperialist Slavs?
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>>16537531
remittances play a big role, according to pajeets. emigration is also why kerala has the most isis fighters in india, they mostly move to the gulf
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>>16538118
No it's because they ignored Lenin and Marx Jewish ramblings.
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>>16537531
>Kerala

>>16538118
>>16537889
>>16537866
>>16537728
>>16537710
>>16537625

Kerala is a fucking shithole lol.

>>16538118
>So it was because they weren't Slavs or within the tendrils of imperialist Slavs?

Kerala residents Literally have a lower average income than Russians lol.
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>>16538158
and the rest of india (or the subcontinent for that matter) is worse, what's your point?
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>>16538143
>they ignored Lenin and Marx Jewish ramblings.
So they didn't listen to the anti-semitismm
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>>16537625
So is West Bengal and well, Calcutta is not doing well.
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>>16537620
>aryancels vs CHADravidians
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>>16538143
>they ignored Lenin
>rooted in resistance to British rule, a commitment to land reform and opposition to India’s caste system
LMAO!
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>>16539396
Yes, since Lenin is the only communist ever to propose that.
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>>16539483
So did Marx and Engels propose that too?
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>>16539486
Irrelevant
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>>16539943
How is that irrelevant? The troonchud was holding up their most well-known work.
Take meds.
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>>16539954
>Saar if you agree with someone on one thing it means that you agree with them completely.
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>>16537531
Hmmmmm, no idea haha
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>>16539970
The majority Christian Neastern Indian states are shitholes.
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>>16540003
>The majority Christian Neastern Indian states are shitholes.
Huge cope
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>>16538158
>Kerala is a fucking shithole
Is it a shithole in the third-world sense of the word, or just a shithole in the "People can't afford a new dragon dildo every week" East Londonistani way?
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>>16540312
It's true though, Thomas the Apostle did his thing there, so maybe that helps them but it can't be explained by Christianity alone.



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