Ambedkar’s Likely Views on the United States Today
Racial Inequality: He would empathize deeply with the Black Lives Matter movement. Ambedkar saw parallels between caste in India and race in America. He would frame racism as an American form of graded inequality — akin to caste.
Economic Inequality and Billionaires: He’d be critical of wealth concentration. Ambedkar believed liberty without equality was hollow. He would support wealth limits, progressive taxation, and strong unions — he’d be closer to Limitarian or Democratic Socialist positions than capitalist liberalism.
Secularism: He would defend a strong secular state — rejecting both Christian nationalism. His Navayana Buddhism is rationalist and humanist; he’d resist any religion dictating law or education.
Gender and LGBTQ+ Rights: Ambedkar was ahead of his time in advocating women’s equality and autonomy. He’d likely support modern feminist and queer liberation movements, seeing them as part of “liberty, equality, fraternity.”
Global Egalitarianism: Ambedkar’s final goal was a moral world order based on compassion and rational equality — the global realization of Dhamma as social justice.