if academic discussions will bring revolution, all those academic journals in library would have become manifestos for humanity and we would have had millions of revolution every year
In communism, it is practical political leaders like Lenin, Mao, Castro and not the academic Karl Marx created the mass movement and the ultimate revolution, in capitalism it is businessmen like Rockefeller, Buffet or Ambani not academic Adam Smith created the stock market boom.
History tells us revolutions are always the outcome of pragmatic engagement in mass movement. The theories were only implemented at a later date for a decisive sustenance of its outcome. History also tells us, course of any mass movement can be changed if one has the commitment for its larger objective, because all mass movements in history have started spontaneously and then changed the course on ground zero based on practical needs, some time including rejection of very idea on which these movements were set out. Theory will only make one skeptic and it is a proven fact.
Connecting Dalit issue to Land ownership is something that present Gujarat Una march leaders are demanding and it is not a new concept, since historically this has been considered as practical necessity in Indian Dalit politics.
In Kerala from Muthanga protest to standing protest to the present Trivandrum protest, under the Janu’s leadership this has been a consistent demand. Also this has been the demand of communists (land reformation) since inception with its effectiveness in social transformation. Thanks to Kerala example of land reformation and its impact in socio-cultural landscape in front of us , practically we will have to accept this argument.
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