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The Modi government in India came to power by building a mass movement based around Hindutva, a fascist movement based around the Hindu religion.  The ideology of this brand of fascism was spread by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) or National Patriotic Organization.  RSS was formed in 1925 by ultra conservative Hindu intellectuals to fight British colonialism and the influence of Muslims in India.  One of the founders of RSS, Moonje, met Mussolini in 1931 and came back to India to form a paramilitary organization based on what he learned from the Fascist youth in Italy.  Another founding member, Golwalkar, was a great admirer of Hitler and wanted to build a Hindu Nation (Great India) based on Hitler's fascist organization.  The prime minister of India, Modi, joined RSS at the age of 15 and became their ideologue.
The nationalist struggle against British rule in India was led by the Indian National Congress (INC).  The Congress Party organized the masses of workers who were suffering from oppressive British rule to support the nationalist independence aspirations of big Indian capitalists like Tata, Goenka, and Birla.  To overthrow British rule in India, the Indian capitalists needed the support of the masses – Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs etc.  The ideology of RSS was too divisive for the Indian capitalist class.  In spite of its stated goal to fight British rule and having a paramilitary wing, they never fought the British. Instead they terrorized Muslims, Christians and poor Hindus.
The Congress Party ruled India for nearly 60 years backed by the dominant section of the Indian capitalist class.  By 1980, some of the largest Indian capitalists started challenging US capitalists outside India, especially in the Middle East and in parts of east Africa.  As new generations of them amassed their wealth very quickly, they began to see the US as a declining power.  The multi-billionaire Ambani brothers of Reliance Industries, and the Adani-led port and power company expanded their businesses in Australia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.  These capitalists had big hopes of capturing oil fields in Iraq when Saddam Hussein was in power.
With the rapid growth of capitalism came increased misery for the working class. Tens of millions of small farmers lost their land and flocked to the cities in search of jobs.  Slums with no sanitation mushroomed in big cities while billionaires like the Ambanis built their luxurious palace-like homes.  The workers organized in unions were defying their reformist leadership; major strikes and several general strikes became frequent and violent.  It was to counter this revolutionary potential of the working class that the Indian capitalists started funding both the RSS-led BJP and the Congress Party.
In 1992 the RSS/BJP led tens of thousands of fanatic Hindu members to demolish a Muslim mosque they claimed was built where once a Hindu temple stood some 500 years ago.  Violent attacks on Muslims followed all around the country, but they were systematically organized in Mumbai, the financial and industrial hub of the country.
The Modi government came to power in the industrial state of Gujarat by similar pogroms carried out against the local Muslim population.  Just like in Mumbai, the fascists led by Modi carried out their terror campaigns against Muslim workers in the industrial cities.  The reward for carrying out fascist pogroms came when the largest industrialists proclaimed Modi as the CEO of India.  By 2005 the Indian capitalists had selected Modi to lead India but they wanted BJP/RSS to build fascist ideology all over India based on his home state of Gujarat.
During his time as the Chief Minister of Gujarat, Modi visited China four times.  He encouraged massive investments by the Chinese in Gujarat.  The Adani Corporation is the biggest beneficiary of the Chinese collaboration.  Anil Ambani of Reliance Communication and Power has received loans from the Chinese banks.
The dominant section of the Indian capitalists believe that the US is weak and in decline but militarily dangerous.  The dreams of the Indian companies to build oil refineries in Iraq, Libya and Syria were crushed by the US. These capitalists also believe that while China is a formidable power, they can outpace them by collaborating with them in the short term.  They believe that over 300 million farm workers in India who make less than dollar a day can become industrial workers to propel India to take on both the US and China. 
As Modi and his party build Hindutva-based fascism, they create millions of angry workers and students who are not organized.  Masses of these workers are open to our ideas of communist revolution.  We are expanding our network of Red Flag readers in India.  Regular readers should join ICWP now and fight for communism.

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