Why Marxists Must Oppose Ambedkar and Ambedkarism?

- Workers’ Socialist Party/ 16.4.2015

Ambedkarites, from Mayawati to Paswan, and Dhasal to Jeetan Ram, have got themselves exposed to the hilt as compliant agencies of capitalists and their political regime. Their treacherous role lies in subordinating the poor and toiling sections of lower caste masses to the regime of rich and elite, despite their demagogy for poor and downtrodden. 

Hereunder we set out the core issues that comprise the essence of disputes between Amebdkarites on one hand and we Marxists on the other:

1.  Our first and foremost critique of Amebdkarites is based upon our opposition to their limited and narrow nationalist orientation and their false perspective that caste apartheid can be effectively countered and challenged within national frontiers of India. The question of caste injustice and oppression in India is integral to rampant social inequality in South Asia as a whole, and is essentially bound up not only with anti-apartheid struggle of blacks from South Africa to US, but is intensely linked with the struggle of workers against capitalist offensive and for socialism, in Europe, US and elsewhere on the globe. To revolutionary Marxists, the question of caste oppression in India, cannot be hermetically sealed off and viewed in isolation from struggles of workers and toilers all over the world. The destiny of struggle against caste apartheid in India and South Asia is inseparably linked up with and depends directly upon success and failures in worldwide struggle of the workers and toilers against capitalists and landlords.