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Ram Guha's recent article is bad, don't read it, and if you've read it don't bother quote tweeting it to critique it

One point though, the fellow doesn't know what basic terms mean. Will just comment on the last bit where he asks communists to become 'democratic socialists'
Thing is, these are two different socialist lines with different praxis, and one cannot opportunistically become the other. That is not how politics work. I have no problems with actual democratic socialists (by which it is generally meant electoral democratic socialists)
He probably has no idea what communism means, or how difficult it is internally to reconcile even two similar lines. Let alone wholesale abandon them. Can be done, but the way he cavalierly writes that without caveats it is probable he doesn't know what he is talking about
I'm a socialist and a democrat. But I'm not a democratic socialist, neither am I a Leninist. I however am irritated to see a useless liberal like Ram Guha lecturing any kind of socialist in his classic halfbaked tedium.
for people new to leftism who want to educate themselves on what these things mean, don't read stupid opeds, use this thread

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