I remember when I was first learning about settler colonialism, I thought to myself: “Huh, this sounds like Taiwan and Israel” My instincts were correct on Israel, but I never looked too deeply into Taiwan. The fact that the Kuomintang displaced the Austronesian natives is a pretty strong indicator, but is Taiwan really a settler colonial state or are my intuitions wrong?
There are literally countless indigineous peoples across the entire subcontinent who are discriminated, oppressed and abused by the Indian government, even legally designated as such. There is a literal people’s war largely led by rural indigenous people under the Naxal banner to fight against the Indian government. Not just in Kashmir, India is absolutely a settler nation. Nobody knows because the subcontinent is one of the least talked about places on the western internet.
You know what, I agree. The Naxalites are the only hope for India as of now, CPI(M) and everyone else are electoralist scum. There is no socialist revolution without the liberation of oppressed nations, and it is sad to see so called socialists, really social-chauvinists, condemn the People’s War.