Friday, April 16, 2010

MQM, TTP, Feudals and Pakistan

It is not just MQM or TTP but almost all other mainstream and nationalist parties in Pakistan which are actually supported or infiltrated by the Feudal class of Pakistan. May I suggest that we should not forget the role of the Pakistani Feudal class and that we should really revisit and research on the role of Feudal, their motives and objectives behind supporting all anti progressive forces in Pakistan.
MQM specially deserves more rational and unbiased analysis, as they enjoy a mass support in Urban areas of Sindh, it is not totally true that they win because of force and violence or rigging elections, they in fact enjoy a wide stream support from the people who once were in the forefront of democratic movements of Pakistan (please do not overlook the demographic facts e.g. education rate in Karachi is far higher than any other part of Sindh, and hence people living here are more politically aware and learned irrespective of their ethnic background) , whether it was in favor of Fatima Jinnah, in favor and than against Bhutto, or against Zia. Those people (called Muhajirs or Urdu-Speaking, both terms look stupid and naive after 50 years of inception of Pakistan and 4th Generation of Pakistanis in their youth and in a city like Karachi which is rightly called mini Pakistan) were perhaps the biggest threat to the Feudal class in Pakistan. Now they have been forced to be curbed and confined within the Metropolitan Sindh. It is a pity to see major nationalist parties in Sindh adopting a biased and anti democratic behavior against Muhajirs and as a result they are supporting MQM by proving it right. During 1980s a virtual wall was build between urban and rural population of Sindh, people were forced to migrate from both sides and violence, killing, looting, rapes all brutal means were adopted to support the divide (It is a pity no one has written anything for those who were affected, those stories still waiting for our attention). It was naivety of nationalists in Sindh and Pakistani Progressives in general that they did not raise their voice against it, they failed to realize the real motive and that motive was Feudal interest and preservation of Feudal status, which we can see is defended very well. If you have any doubt please revisit Sindh, and you will feel that divide in all walks of life. So those who were supposed to be aligned on basis of class struggle are now divided on the basis of race. Nationalists have been played with, and it is apparent from the famous term 'Sindh Card' we usually heard about PPP playing in elections.
TTP or Taliban should also be analyzed in same manner, those who were supposed to get united as a class are now divided on the basis of religion, they have been kept away from their basic rights of education and health while they are wasting their energies in Jihad. Now you can clearly realize why leaders are supporting them or supported them in past.

Hazardous!!!!!!!!!!!

I wrote this on a friend's wall in facebook :

"Believe in what you think is true and don't become an egoist so that you can accept when you realize you were wrong or when you do not know; we are not complete, and we learn and so we progress. I think if you keep your focus simple then you can not get deviated because of ridicule around you; and truth is a very simple thing :) problem is that we are always afraid of accepting it because of ridicule around us; survival always takes precedence."
This was to reply her concern that it is becoming difficult for her to grasp what is right and what is wrong, what is a truth and what is a lie; surely this world has become complex day by day, or shall i say we humans and our world has become complex, both of us are not what we were thousand years, or hundred years, or few years or an year ago. Complexity is a sign of evolution, every evolving system is more complex than what it was in past and lesser complex than what it will evolve into; though the the final stage will be the simplest.

But it is not only complexity which is a problem but the deception induced in to the sources of knowledge and understanding; that deception of course is necessary and part of the process of evolution because everything tends to be what it is so as the evolving system. The system tries hard to resist a change and , this tendency to resist a change is a survival instinct; it is that same survival instinct however which becomes a tool in the hands of forces of change and a cause of evolution.

I usually do not take problems which I can not solve :) because what I can not understand is what I can not solve and what I can not understand is not worthy of my time, rather I should concentrate on what I can understand to be able to understand more of what I can not understand. That is why I always become confused when people started to talk of everything like everything is very simple; when they talk of Plato, Spinoza, Hegel, Kant and Marx or any other great philosopher and they refer to their work as it is something like a comic. Very honestly I have not even opened books I have collected on Hegel as I do not find myself able to understand him, whenever I start Freud I sleep, I am trying to read Schopenhauer these days and I had to read every paragraph twice or thrice to understand his world as will, dialectics took some time before I grasps it, and Marx is still difficult, when I take a book on Islamic political thought, I got mesmerized by the the depth of efforts people have put in to create that system, so as I feel about any other theological system of thought. I do not find myself able to reject it all let alone accepting it; for acceptance is a more difficult process than rejection.

Do not think that I am a dumb idiot who can not understand simple things; for I am not what I was yesterday and I will not be what I am today :) there are many who think I am still that dumb which I used to be ten years back, ah I am not and I can promise; if I survive till tomorrow I will not be that dumb as I am today. So what did I write about a system? Don't you think characteristically I am like that system to which I belong?