the first picture is from Ayesha Siddiqa's Military Inc and is well researched with the help of retired Generals.
The second picture was summarized through Claude and can be slightly different from reality, but you can get the rough estimate and the priorities of our nation.
I've realized this recently the struggle of Faiz Ahmed Faiz and many great poets like Habib Jalib is getting a new color, their spirit and struggle for revolution is getting stripped away from their poetry. From Matric to Inter, Faiz Ahmed's poetry is mandatory, but the context and explanation of the poetry is often misinterpreted. He is glorified as a great poet, but his struggle has been given a new color, a patriotic color. A color which stripped away the political weight and true meaning of his poetry. And not just the syllabus of Education system, the political parties are misusing the poetry for their own propaganda.
PTI for example, uses their poetry to spread their own message. Now poetry is an art, and you can interpret in various ways, but that's not just to strip the context and only interpret it for your propaganda, that's not sincere. They use such poetry to gather people under one flag and paint themselves as revolutionary but in fact they are the same people with different faces, for example
"Hum Nahi Mantay" | Habib Jalib's Dastoor
https://youtu.be/G75Se_X5l4w?si=Bg4JgORsBDjflOO7
Now it's my subjective opinion mixed with some ground reality to some extent but throughout my academic journey I was told that Faiz's poetry was about patriotism, and there was this conflict in our Urdu department that whether his poetry was only about his beloved or patriotism, let alone the anti-fascist, revolutionary, communist cause.
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All this while successive governments spend upto $17 billion every year on elite subsidies and priviliges.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/13/elite-privilege-consumes-17-4bn-of-pakistans-economy-undp
Hi everyone,
I wanted to open a discussion about adding anti-capitalism and anti-liberalism to this subreddit's rules. I know this might sound overtly explicit and some might say unnecessary, so let me explain.
Our goal is to build a space for substantive leftist organizing, theory, and discussion, not to host endless debates with people who fundamentally reject the framework we're operating within. Every hour spent explaining why capitalism is exploitative to someone who thinks it's natural law is an hour taken away from building something better.
We need to recognize that liberalism is fundamentally a right-wing ideology. While it often presents itself as the "center" or "moderate" option, its core tenets: private property rights, market fundamentalism, and the preservation of the status quo, are inherently aligned with capitalist interests. Allowing liberal arguments to dominate our discourse will derail conversations into defending the very systems we aim to critique.
I don't want the subreddit to become an echo chamber where no criticism is allowed; we should encourage debates, disagreements, and self-reflection. The difference is that we should set a baseline: participants should come in willing to engage within a leftist framework, not to dismantle it from the outside.
We'll spend less time moderating bad faith arguments and more on constructive organizing and education. We will have clearer expectations for new members: that this is a space where people can actually develop ideas without constant pushback from reactionary positions.
What do ya'll think?
"Finance capital, concentrated in a few hands and exercising a virtual monopoly, exacts enormous and ever-increasing profits from the floating of companies, issue of stock, state loans, etc., strengthens the domination of the financial oligarchy and levies tribute upon the whole of society for the benefit of monopolists." - Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism by V.I Lenin.
Short answer: No
Lemme prove it in easy words. The idea of Intelligence test has its own history. There are several social issues attached to it directly. They are used to justify racism, colorism, patriarchy and what not. They simply just relate it to almost anything and come up with things like "see people with white skins are always intelligent".
Now first of all, it's largely a pseudo-science. How? Define intelligence? just like you can't define knowledge or goodness. Its definition can vary from person to person. it's almost impossible to come up with a good answer. And intelligence is not fixed, instead it's elastic as Burt says. Secondly how are you going to measure it? it's not like weight or height. here's an article explaining it.
The intelligence is highly dependent on your environment and society. You can be intelligent and still not reach its full potential because of not getting enough education. And it is highly dependent on the sort of food you consume daily and the sort of environment you live in.
The idea of Intelligence was revived by a book named "Bell shaped curve" by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray. it tried to prove the gap between average IQ of Whites and Blacks. It was an attempt to make people believe that Black people are just violent and stupid because of their genes.
Now this argument was itself debunked a long time ago in a book, entitled "The History and Geography of Human Genes" by Luca Cavalli-Sforza. But it is still used by some people to gather all the Chuds under the flag of White supremacy and racism. And people like Elon Musk are often seen as promoting the same ideology by again and again posting the specific incidents involving some immigrants or black people. And try to prove that it's always the immigrants and Black people who commit such crimes. That's how they radicalize the youth.
Elon Musk posted about race almost every day in January | Elon Musk | The Guardian
Now, it's not a surprise that late capitalism is showing its visible effects in the market. And people are developing class consciousness against Bourgeoises class. So, Elites like Elon who was desperately trying to join Epstein Island are trying to save their wealth by giving the youth a new direction. As the job markets are cooked so rather than blaming Capitalism and exploitation, immigrants are getting blamed for eating their jobs and they are giving them the hope that by solving this problem everything will get better, as they say Billions must smile.
Now keep that in mind, Elon have a large number of immigrants working in his company as well. You can see the clear hypocrisy itself.
Hence, the racism is becoming more and more common on social media like Instagram and Twitter.