Born Brahmins cannot be expected to lead anti-caste revolution.

Evidence

I think these remarks apply equally to the Brahmins of India, and one can say with equal truth that if a man who becomes a Pope has no wish to become a revolutionary, a man who is born a Brahmin has much less desire to become a revolutionary. Indeed, to expect a Brahmin to be a revolutionary in matters of social reform is as idle as to expect the British Parliament, as was said by Leslie Stephen, to pass an Act requiring all blue-eyed babies to be murdered. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 965

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Directly answers why caste annihilation implementation is stuck: the class with the power to lead has a structural self-interest against it. Leslie Stephen’s blue-eyed-babies analogy is a memorable rhetorical touch.

Related

• Expecting Brahmins to reform caste is as absurd as Parliament killing blue-eyed babies (similarity 0.94)
• Caste abolition would destroy Brahmin privilege, so no Brahmin will lead it (similarity 0.84)
• Breaking caste destroys Brahmin power, so Brahmins cannot lead the movement. (similarity 0.83)
• Caste annihilation requires paired critiques of Brahminism and capitalism (similarity 0.83)
• Brahmins lead political reform but never join caste abolition (similarity 0.83)
• Brahmins will never lead a movement that dissolves their own caste power (similarity 0.82)
• Brahmins uphold caste theory while breaking its rules to protect class power (similarity 0.81)
• Abolishing caste requires destroying the sacred authority of shastras (similarity 0.80)
• Priesthood reform is the lever to abolish caste by killing Brahminism. (similarity 0.80)
• Killing Brahminism is the path to killing caste and saving Hinduism. (similarity 0.80)
• Brahmins universally break caste rules yet uphold caste doctrine to protect class power (similarity 0.80)
• Hinduism’s pervasiveness makes renouncing caste seem impracticable to many (similarity 0.79)
• Brahmins routinely broke caste rules yet fiercely defended caste ideology to preserve class power (similarity 0.79)
• Indian socialism cannot function without first dismantling caste prejudice (similarity 0.79)
• Destroying caste means destroying shastra and Veda authority, a near-impossible task. (similarity 0.78)