Asiatic Mode of Production, Caste & the Indian Left

Murzban Jal
Asiatic Mode of Production

Alongside of modern evils, a whole series of inherited evils oppress us, arising from the passive survival of antiquated modes of production, with their inevitable train of social and political anachronisms. We suffer not only from the living, but from the dead. Le mort saist le vif! We are seized by the dead!
- Karl Marx, Capital, Vol I.

Marx, Ambedkar and the 'Hindu' Counter-revolution
The ideological hegemony of Brahminism contributed to the stagnation of Indian society, not just by preventing a revolt of the exploited classes; it did so in another way as well, which EMS elaborated somehow later, basing himself on the work of the great Marxist philosopher, Debiprasad Chattopadhyay.....