Manomay
100 posts
Manomay
@abbajabbadaba
Heterodox Indian Conservative. Dindu @centre_hindu
Bharat Ganarajya Katılım Mayıs 2026
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My new piece on this venomous and vile ideology which has grabbed so much of the Indian electorate psychologically. Its sins against Bharat Ganarajya. @PrateekUvacha would really love reading this. @NBaidmehta would love understanding anti industrialization which came from it.
Centre for Studies in Hindu Conservatism@centre_hindu
A sharp and uncompromising critique of Lohiaite socialism and its corrosive legacy in Indian politics. In this essay, Manomay (@abbajabbadaba) traces how anti-industrial romanticism, caste maximalism, and decentralist populism hollowed out state capacity across the Gangetic heartland while producing wider national repercussions. An urgent call for the present political dispensation to shed this burdensome inheritance. Read: bit.ly/4dDCXad
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While BRA and EVR rightly receive attention in discussions around Social Justice politics, many of our present maladies also trace back to the ideology of Ram Manohar Lohia and his successors. @abbajabbadaba's article shows how Lohia attempted to synthesise Gandhian and Ambedkarite thought thereby creating arguably a more corrosive framework by combining the excesses of both.
It also serves as a caution for Hindutva circles against importing Lohiaite ideas. In practice, this politics empowered dominant castes while simultaneously enabling them to claim backwardness under the broad and elastic umbrella of OBC identity.
Centre for Studies in Hindu Conservatism@centre_hindu
A sharp and uncompromising critique of Lohiaite socialism and its corrosive legacy in Indian politics. In this essay, Manomay (@abbajabbadaba) traces how anti-industrial romanticism, caste maximalism, and decentralist populism hollowed out state capacity across the Gangetic heartland while producing wider national repercussions. An urgent call for the present political dispensation to shed this burdensome inheritance. Read: bit.ly/4dDCXad
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Must read.
Centre for Studies in Hindu Conservatism@centre_hindu
A sharp and uncompromising critique of Lohiaite socialism and its corrosive legacy in Indian politics. In this essay, Manomay (@abbajabbadaba) traces how anti-industrial romanticism, caste maximalism, and decentralist populism hollowed out state capacity across the Gangetic heartland while producing wider national repercussions. An urgent call for the present political dispensation to shed this burdensome inheritance. Read: bit.ly/4dDCXad
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@sadist_2003 remember our discussion on the Pune metro. This is the only reason.
Rupali Thorat@thorat1974
Hiranandani promised premium homes. We got congestion, commercial sprawl, and now Ring Metro chaos. Why pay a premium for a station?
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Genuine question - How do people make the following claim: "XYZ has no hope in UP election"?
BJP got 42% vote share compared to SP's 32%. That gap isn't insurmountable, especially since seat share and vote share aren't very correlated.
Unless you have a representative survey, how is this sort of claim even possible?
Aditya Jakki@adityajakki
Dharmendra Pradhan fuck ups are back @Lolbunew foreign policy blackpilling is back BJP has no hopes in UP rhetoric is back Modi fucked up economy like UPA 2 narrative is back Now only thing left to be back is middle class tax whining 😌
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@rohitshinde121 @adityajakki x.com/i/status/20541…
Bro, you are going to like this one. Your recommended paper helped a lot.
Centre for Studies in Hindu Conservatism@centre_hindu
A sharp and uncompromising critique of Lohiaite socialism and its corrosive legacy in Indian politics. In this essay, Manomay (@abbajabbadaba) traces how anti-industrial romanticism, caste maximalism, and decentralist populism hollowed out state capacity across the Gangetic heartland while producing wider national repercussions. An urgent call for the present political dispensation to shed this burdensome inheritance. Read: bit.ly/4dDCXad
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What does Indian style refer to specifically?
East Asian state capitalists have proven successful, yes. But I really wonder about the counterfactual. Industrial Policy isn't easy to pull off. China is struggling with various burdens of the same. China would've done much better with less state capitalism in the counterfactual, especially if they could pull off a hard-to-execute state capitalism.
Industrial policy failures abound in LatAm, Africa and even India's PLI schemes have had major issues (barring semiconductors).
Social market capitalism is merely Chicago School with increased focus on redistribution. There's not much conflict there. Except on the magnitude of redistribution that you're comfortable and what magnitude starts hurting the economy itself.
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I think German Welfare/Social Market Capitalists, East Asian State Capitalists and Indian style of mixed case by case Capitalism did prove alternatives to Chicago School right
Rohit Shinde@rohitshinde121
And all of these economists have been proven wrong by the inexorable progress of time. The Chicago School of Economics has proven its worth again and again by being empirically correct. All of this wordcelling, yet nothing of value to add.
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@Abhilogue this explains many of the voes of the Gangetic heartland.
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What lies behind regional parties? People who think they are merely caste parties need to understand the deeper ideological structures that operate beneath them. Read this Article to understand what lies behind them
Centre for Studies in Hindu Conservatism@centre_hindu
A sharp and uncompromising critique of Lohiaite socialism and its corrosive legacy in Indian politics. In this essay, Manomay (@abbajabbadaba) traces how anti-industrial romanticism, caste maximalism, and decentralist populism hollowed out state capacity across the Gangetic heartland while producing wider national repercussions. An urgent call for the present political dispensation to shed this burdensome inheritance. Read: bit.ly/4dDCXad
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Read this insightful piece!
Centre for Studies in Hindu Conservatism@centre_hindu
A sharp and uncompromising critique of Lohiaite socialism and its corrosive legacy in Indian politics. In this essay, Manomay (@abbajabbadaba) traces how anti-industrial romanticism, caste maximalism, and decentralist populism hollowed out state capacity across the Gangetic heartland while producing wider national repercussions. An urgent call for the present political dispensation to shed this burdensome inheritance. Read: bit.ly/4dDCXad
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@rohitshinde121 you will like this one as well. Your recommended paper helped here a lot.
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“Traditions are experiments that worked.”
Louise Perry made a sharp point on Modern Wisdom: Progressives have a huge rhetorical advantage. They can always paint a shiny utopian future that’s never existed, so they never have to defend any real-world failures or trade-offs.
Conservatives, on the other hand, end up defending imperfect past cultures and traditions — and immediately get hit with “so you support domestic violence / imperialism / cholera?”
As Thomas Sowell said: there are no solutions, only trade-offs.
Acknowledging trade-offs is fundamentally conservative — and often deeply unpopular in a world addicted to promises of perfect progress.
I’ve always found this dynamic fascinating. It explains why one side feels perpetually on the defensive while the other gets to play visionary.
What do you think — is the “traditions are experiments that worked” framing a stronger way to defend conservative ideas, or do you see it differently?
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Very informative, readable, sharp, and well-sourced essay by @abbajabbadaba , on an underexplored but relevant topic.
Do read, everyone!
Centre for Studies in Hindu Conservatism@centre_hindu
A sharp and uncompromising critique of Lohiaite socialism and its corrosive legacy in Indian politics. In this essay, Manomay (@abbajabbadaba) traces how anti-industrial romanticism, caste maximalism, and decentralist populism hollowed out state capacity across the Gangetic heartland while producing wider national repercussions. An urgent call for the present political dispensation to shed this burdensome inheritance. Read: bit.ly/4dDCXad
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Manomay retweetledi
A sharp and uncompromising critique of Lohiaite socialism and its corrosive legacy in Indian politics. In this essay, Manomay (@abbajabbadaba) traces how anti-industrial romanticism, caste maximalism, and decentralist populism hollowed out state capacity across the Gangetic heartland while producing wider national repercussions. An urgent call for the present political dispensation to shed this burdensome inheritance.
Read: bit.ly/4dDCXad
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@bbhandarii It comes from a profound sense of elitist justice which does not recognize day to day reality. They will never learn.
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giving power to labour unions has helped neither labour nor capital, empowering capital deployment with quick turnaround will now help both
bad day for subhashini ali and her likes
Indira Jaising@IJaising
Bad day for workers , back to the days of hire and fire , no jobs
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