During the present ongoing political chaos masses are confused by the bourgeoisie politicians, army, judiciary and the media, but unfortunate part is that some “proletariats” are dancing in this chaos.. Karl Marx once wrote. “Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity”. The proletariats have suffered the cruelties of military rule, eroded by moneyed democracy, hateful parliamentary circus, mentally destroyed by dramas of media, and unjustice of judiciary and cruelty of judges . This has made proletariats to be a tool/machine to fill the treasuries of the bourgeois. There is no party or leadership that has any program or intention of rescuing the trouble of the deprived poor and proletariats. That is alright, things happens, however, we should, in lenin’s words, “patiently explain”, and have organization to be ready for the disorder of the exploiters as they are now in fight within. Just have a look at the current situation of “changing the system”, none of the politicians/judiciary/army of the present setup – each representing different sections of bourgeousie – even mentions the name of the socioeconomic system that dominates and crushing prolateriats? Prolateriats are curiously trying to understand, what are the real reasons for all this political power struggle within bourgeoisies? All this chaos is about nothing more than having extra power in this rotten socio-economic system, which has failed to deliver on even a fraction of its promises. Even there is no reference to the name of the system that is at the root of all this chaos. Some rotten compromise may eventually be reached but nothing will change for the masses, especially poor. The right-wing bourgeois government of Sharif is talking about “saving democracy”, when in fact they are the by-products of the most nasty Zia dictatorship, which devastated Pakistani society more than any other regime in its history. Other so called liberal secular parties are supporting Nawaz in the costume of defending parliament, the constitution and democracy for their own interests. Look at the MQM has made a shot by threatening to withdraw its members from parliament at a crucial juncture to enhance its power and protect its extortionate, amassed wealth and arms built up through corruption with the help of army. The fissures within the military high command support Imran’s PTI and Qadri’s PAT to make the bourgeoisie drama more interesting and thrives to have a new Pakistan after “accomplishment of its Islamic Pakistan” in 40 years. The motives of Imran Khan and Tahir Qadri are not much different from those on the other side of this nonsense division within the bourgeousie elite class. His support base is mainly from the upper middle classes and of course loads of cash has been pumped in to hire the crowds. Qadri proclaims his intention to revamp the whole system, even he hardly understands the basis of the socio-economic system, and even can’t name with what he wants to replace this rotten system with. He is just making tales of miseries which proletariats are s actually suffering from. His marchers are mainly employees of his Madrassa networks being paid hefty bonuses above their salaries for bringing their families along. Other massive expenditure in organising and building the apparatus for these marches and sit-ins has been ridiculous. The financial backers of these two “revolutionaries” are no longer hidden from the sights of the ordinary people. Imran Khan’s demand for a mid-term election and a total revamping of the election commission would make no fundamental change in the results as it would be finance capital, the interests of the establishment and strategic preferences of the bosses that would actually decide the outcome. In an economy that is more than two thirds informal, or black, the winners are obvious: crony capitalists, land grabbers, , drug smugglers, thugs, crooks and terrorists whose entrepreneurial ventures have expanded into resolving property disputes and kidnapping ransoms that dominate most parties, including the PTI. Imran has now raised his stakes to such heights that his retreat without Sharif’s resignation would be a shattering blow for the PTI, smashing it to smithereens. This bubble will burst even sooner than expected. The first major split has already transpired. Qadri’s role as a Saint of a religious Barelvi sect will also lose a lot of disciples. However, this does not mean that the Sharif regime will have an easy ride thereafter. He has been cut to size by the military and this has been a big blow to his mandate with his so called popular support laid bare. With a crumbling economy, civil wars and insurgencies plaguing the country, the severe social unrest will continue. His arrogance and a more repressive stance would only end up as a provocation for the masses at large, which are seething with revolt underneath the gimmickry of these conflicts and the impotent rage of the politicians and institutions of a state trying to perpetuate a system that is historically obsolete and economically redundant. The papering over of these cracks in the state and system with the fake glue of this democratic facade won’t last very long. More crises and conflicts that can tear apart the whole set-up is written on the wall. The top PPP leaders prevailed upon their selected leaders to surrender before the status quo and disgracefully supported Sharif in the garb of protecting democracy. However, how will that PPP survive politically when it is abolishing the fundamental contradiction, the semi-religious Pakistani bourgeois traditional party, the PML (N), especially in Punjab, on which they based their usual hypocritical rhetoric to remain politically relevant? The perspective of the collapse of the PPP as the traditional party of the masses is no longer existent, especially in times ahead. It has been far too long since the masses rose in the form of a mass movement from below. The last time this happened on a sub-threshold level was on 18thOctober 2007, when Benazir Bhutto landed in Karachi from self-imposed exile. That was easily diverted and dispersed with the assassination of Benazir and the subsequent betrayal of the dynastic leadership. However, this rowdy stagnation and the political indifference of the “uncivil society” – the toiling masses – cannot last for long. In their subconscious they are accumulating the experience of being subjected to this calculated democratic deception and the leaders they were forced to rely upon now stand utterly exposed. This subconscious awareness of the masses, when it becomes transformed into a collective consciousness, will burst forward and the psychological and social obstacles will be smashed. A socioeconomic transformation is not a privilege of the oppressed working classes; it is their burning necessity. We are working in this mild situation, raising our point, we agree its not our time but we know we, the socialist, prolateriates, labours, workers, farmers have the solution. (With reference to In defence of Marxism Lal Khan)
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 01:05:36 +0000
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