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"In India, the charge that socialism was Western used to come from the Right. Now the idea is resurgent but on parts of the 'Left.'"

To acknowledge the universalism of socialism is not to avoid celebrating uniqueness of cultures. It's about celebrating the rights of all.

Socialists believe that human beings when confronted with oppression and coercion fight back. This is true across cultures and time.

It's very hard to be a socialist if you don't believe in this common humanity of all people.

Don't believe this either you buy the neoliberal atomized idea of people or racist idea that people are radically different from each other.

Academia still buys into Orientalist ideas about the East, only where they used to say it was a place of reaction, they now valorize it.

The racist premise is kept intact. Everyone in a way buys into a variant of Huntington's thesis of the Clash of Civilizations.

There is no other political tradition that does more than Marxism to explain the conditions that prevail in the "non-West."