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Outlines the Hindutva troll on the Internet, a new species that has only appeared in the past few years. We have had a few of them on this blog, and their erroneous fascist views have been obvious to all who care to look.
It is interesting to look at the comments. Last time I looked at the comments, 100% of the commenters supported the Hindutva line. Which brings me back to one of my original arguments, which is that nearly every Hindu you as an American will ever meet is for all intents and purposes a Hindutvadi. Most of the Hindus I met online are upper and upper to middle class (depending on how you define those words). Almost 100% of these persons were Hindutvadis in one way or another.
So Hindutvadi is simply the voice of the upper caste and higher economic class Hindus. Hindutvadi has become a vehicle for the mindset of the ordinary Hindu, the “Hindu of the street.”
This is of course reminiscent of any fascist philosophy. Trotsky warned of the dangers of fascism, describing fascism as the typical mindset of the ordinary man, of the man of the street. Juan Peron, sometimes thought to be a fascist, had the support of the “shirtless ones,” which was shorthand for the typical man of the street.
There is a bit of the beast in every man. This populist essence, typically manifested in the uneducated, emotionally driven, knee jerk reactions of the “ordinary man on the street” has been distilled and distributed effectively by all fascist movements. And we see here in India a replay of the 20th Century fascist nightmare, even down to its typical adherents, the petit bourgeois or middle class, always the fertile soil for any fascist movement.
