Men, Marx, and Misunderstanding: A Marxist Analysis of the Men’s Rights Movement in India and Beyond

What does Marxism have to say about men's suffering? More than most people expect, and more than the Men's Rights Movement has ever managed to articulate. Men, Marx, and Misunderstanding: A Marxist Analysis of the Men's Rights Movement in India and Beyond is a rigorous, empathetic, and politically urgent examination of male alienation under capitalist patriarchy. Written by a former activist with the Save Indian Family Foundation (SIFF), with qualifications in law and the psychology of mental health, this book applies classical and contemporary Marxist theory to one of the most polarising debates of our time: the suffering of men, and what, if anything, the Left should do about it.
India's male suicide rate exceeds 90, 000 annually. Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code, now Section 85 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, carries an acquittal rate above 80%, yet arrests without investigation remain routine for poor and Dalit families. Fathers are systematically excluded from their children's lives by courts that treat financial obligation as the whole of fatherhood. These are not individual failures.
They are structural outcomes of a system that commodifies men as labour, punishes vulnerability, and discards those who can no longer produce. Yet the Men's Rights Movement, in India and globally, too often mistakes the symptom for the cause - blaming feminism rather than capitalism, seeking punitive reversal rather than collective liberation. This book corrects that error without dismissing the pain behind it.
With chapters on carceral feminism and its class consequences, the Indian and global MRM, Bollywood's mythology of male disposability, Dalit masculinity and media erasure, and a concrete socialist vision for gender justice, the book is both a scholarly intervention and a practical manifesto. Includes legal toolkits for false 498A/Section 85 BNS cases, feminist, MRM, and Marxist reading guides, a full timeline of gender law in India and globally, and data on law misuse and male suicide.
For activists, academics, policymakers, lawyers, and everyone who believes that justice, to be real, must be indivisible.