India’s bourgeois democracy outlasted those in older colonizing countries.

Evidence

This economic base is combined, then, with unbroken parliamentary rule of the bourgeoisie since Independence in 1947, a record quite comparable to the length of Italy’s modern record of unbroken bourgeoisdemocratic governance, and superior to the fate of bourgeois democracy in Spain and Portugal, two of the oldest colonizing countries. This parliamentary republic of the bourgeoisie in India has nor been without its own lawlessnesses and violences, of a kind and degree now nor normal in Japan or Western Europe, bur a bourgeois political subjectivity has been created for the populace at large. The corollary on the Left is that the two communist parties (CPI and CPI-M) have longer and more extensive experience of regional government, within the republic of the bourgeoisie, than all the Eurocommunist parties combined, and the electorate that votes ritually for these two parties is probably larger than the communist electorates in all the rest of the capitalist world. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 388

Categorization

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