Good article by a Pakistani Socialist, which talked about Imran Khan signing with IMF, social conservatism, repression of trade union and farmer groups and military backing to stay in power.
Big disappointment for the 0% that thought that Pakistan had a principled socialist as a PM.
Damn, well I guess if Jacobin says I shouldn’t sympathize with a brown democratically elected leader being ousted by the US because they don’t pass purity tests…
The writer is a brown, on the ground Pakistani socialist, so it’s better to just see what they have to say instead of hand-wave it away as being from Jacobin.
I’m brown, I read the article, I give you all permission to dunk on it, it’s trash
Unfortunately, the forces of the status quo in Pakistan that have replaced Khan represent a moribund social structure that continues to exploit the public, suspending politics between uninspiring democrats and an insurgent authoritarianism.
The author buries the actual fucking point most people have made concerning this coup to instead construct a phantom group of “neoliberal populist anti-imperialist nationalists” who leftists somewhere apparently sympathize with
The rest of the article is made up of tedious truisms like “Anti-imperialism must remain at the core of progressive politics to reimagine a strong global left” (thank you captain obvious) and wikipedia grade history paragraphs of Khan (you won’t believe it)…doing capitalism! dun dun dun :shocked-pikachu:
Triangulating, liberal comforting hack work you could have gotten out of a graduate pol-sci student, typical Jacobin
I’ve completely given up on anything published by any western media outlet, including all the supposedly “leftist” ones, and I do not give a single shit about who wrote it
Yes, they do occasionally report the truth, but who the fuck cares
They all serve the reaction
Sure, Jacobin should be treated as an unreliable source and you should verify their shit before you believe it, but this r/politics-esque attitude of “no I didn’t read the article, now here’s my opinion on it” just causes conflict. If a comrade shares an article in good faith, it’s usually worth reading it so that you can then respond in good faith. If an article is bad, tell them why it’s bad.
I mean the current PM is also democratically elected. If you’re aware of parliamentary system, Imran khan was running a “minority govt”, his party didn’t get full majority so a couple of small parties supported him to form govt. Now those parties shifted their support to Shahbaz Sharif
ITT: The virgin “I read the article and it makes fair points” vs. the chad “Jacobin is an imperialist mouthpiece, i’m not reading this shit”
BTW i haven’t read it so i don’t know which way Khan went but Assad isn’t a communist dream leader either and that’s not why he is considered an “anti-imperialist hero” but because he’s helping to build an anti US-hegemony bloc. So, umm, you know, critical support.
:shrug-outta-hecks: critical support but the “critical” part is silent is the vibe I’m getting from the people who dismiss this article without even reading it tho
Ammar is good. Does really good praxis with his hkm movement. He’s right on the money here
Westerners talking over asians to prove how “based” they are on asian issues
