India and communism (book notes)
First of all this book is not Dr BR Ambedkar's book it was an unfinished draft of a book, that he had created a template for, but did not complete. Most of the book is an introduction by Anand Telumbde. Anand Telumbde does not mince any words in blaming both communists and Ambedkarites for creating and artificial rift between the two movements. Particularly he identifies the pioneering communists for having a sort of essentialist understanding of Marxism. Or to put it in Marxist jargon, the understanding of base structure and super structure and the belief that once the base structure is changed, everything else changes automatically. He uses post Soviet reading of Marx especially Louis Althusser's reading of Marxism and his concept of over determination to explain further. Over determination a Freudian concept, applied in understanding Marxism would mean that apart from the economics which is the last instance or the most important part, idealogical and political conditions a...