Bolshevism’s Russian Revolution inspired Indian communists two years before the Mahad Satyagraha

Evidence

Logically, the direction in which Ambedkar was moving ought to have made him a natural ally of the Communist Party of India, founded in 1925, two years before the Mahad Satyagraha. Bolshevism was in the air. The Russian Revolution had inspired communists around the world. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 336

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Charts the historical alignment between caste struggle and Marxism in the 1920s.

Broader Connections

• The Bolshevik revolution supplied symbols for West Indian postwar socialism #corroborates (0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1189