Caste division prevents the proletariat from uniting for revolution

Evidence

Men will not join in a revolution for the equalisation of property unless they know that after the revolution is achieved they will be treated equally, and that there will be no discrimination of caste and creed. … The assurance must be the assurance proceeding from a much deeper foundation—namely, the mental attitude of the compatriots towards one another in their spirit of personal equality and fraternity. Can it be said that the proletariat of India, poor as it is, recognises no distinctions except that of the rich and the poor? Can it be said that the poor in India recognise no such distinctions of caste or creed, high or low? If the fact is that they do, what unity of front can be expected from such a proletariat in its action against the rich? How can there be a revolution if the proletariat cannot present a united front? — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 854

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: This is Ambedkar’s sharpest theoretical objection to classical Marxism—caste as a structural barrier to the very class unity Marx assumed, a point that reframes subsequent debates.
• XREF: connects to: Fragmented secular revolutionary vote split the round and guaranteed an Islamist-regime runoff — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 306