Begumpura: Bahujan Antifascism

Begumpura: Bahujan Antifascism

6/17/2025, 10:10:52 PM

“Genocide was, and still is, the precondition, the cornerstone and ground work of the military-industrial complexes, of the processed environments, of the worlds of offices and parking lots.” — Fredy Perlman https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/fredy-perlman-the-continuing-appeal-of-nationalism

Begumpura: Bahujan Antifascism

6/15/2025, 10:51:33 AM

"In early 20th-century Kerala, the Asari (carpenter) caste resisted colonial and Brahminical systems by deliberately ignoring opportunities offered by colonial institutions. This act of refusal was a strategy against being shaped into compliant subjects within a hierarchical order." https://panthi.in/carpenters-who-refused-an-empire/

Begumpura: Bahujan Antifascism

5/23/2025, 6:59:45 AM

"For the past twenty years, I have minutely searched the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Puranas, Shastras, astrology books, and ancient texts on science but have failed to trace any root of modern science to them. No one but fossilised wiseacres would dare claim that the Vedas of the Hindus contained everything." — Dr. Meghnad Saha, _Adhunik Bijnan O Hindu Dhormo [Modern Science and Hinduism]_

Begumpura: Bahujan Antifascism

5/21/2025, 12:06:04 AM

"Since its appearance the Bhagavad-Gita has been repeatedly invoked to fight against the forces of revolution. If Shankaracharya sought its assistance in the ninth century A.C. to deal a death blow to declining Buddhism, Mahatma Gandhi utilised its teachings to annihilate the rising tide of secular democracy. This is true even though Shankara was dubbed as a crypto-Buddhist and Gandhi acclaimed as the champion of democratic freedom." – Prem Nath Bazaz, _The Role of the Bhagavad-Gita in Indian History_ (1975)

Begumpura: Bahujan Antifascism

5/27/2025, 6:59:10 PM

https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/amitabh-bachchan-stopped-smita-patil-from-eating-on-the-floor-with-lightmen-said-it-makes-us-look-bad-10021381/

Begumpura: Bahujan Antifascism

6/2/2025, 3:07:05 PM

'We have been taught (that is, schooled) in this country to think of "success" as synonymous with, or at least dependent upon, "schooling," but historically that isn't true in either an intellectual or a financial sense. And plenty of people throughout the world today find a way to educate themselves without resorting to a system of compulsory secondary schools that all too often resemble prisons. Why, then, do Americans confuse education with just such a system? What exactly is the purpose of our public schools?' https://libcom.org/article/against-school-john-taylor-gatto

Begumpura: Bahujan Antifascism

5/25/2025, 8:33:27 AM

"In most of the 18 countries where we asked about ideology, people on the ideological right are more likely than those in the center or on the left to support authoritarian systems." https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/02/28/who-likes-authoritarianism-and-how-do-they-want-to-change-their-government/

Begumpura: Bahujan Antifascism

5/20/2025, 5:06:25 AM

"The argument that whereas the Hindus accepted the Bhagavad-Gita as their supreme scripture and unquestioned guide, they failed to act upto the ideals preached by Sri Krishna does not hold water. When members of a society apotheosize a person they have the ambition to emulate him and to fashion their lives in accordance with the principles taught by him. They cease to do so only when the hero loses charm and fails to captivate. If there is agreement on the statement that the Bhagavad-Gita has been the most popular scripture of the Hindus for the past fifteen centuries, it is absurd to hold that the sufierings of the community have been caused not by the doctrines venerated by them but because they acted in defiance of those doctrines." – Prem Nath Bazaz, _The Role of the Bhagavad-Gita in Indian History_ (1975)

Begumpura: Bahujan Antifascism

6/5/2025, 9:38:31 AM

"I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made me into a passionate pacifist and anti-militarist. I am against any nationalism, even in the guise of mere patriotism. Privileges based on position and property have always seemed to me unjust and pernicious, as did any exaggerated personality cult." — Albert Einstein