The audience of this blog is majorly mature. When mature people look at the society around them, they deduce that the values and priorities of human beings, in this state, have turned topsy-turvy. Pakistan has chronic cases of poverty, hopelessness and selfishness. Immoral activities are done with not a slight hint of remorse. We live in a chaotic age, facing challenges of religious sects, linguistic differences, cultural clashes, confrontations based on caste and creed, social classes (walled housing colonies as an example) formed on the difference of economic statuses of otherwise equal human beings etcetera. Internally, we are differenced and dispersed while externally, none of the first world countries gives a shit about the green passport. Pakistanis in general no longer get the respect that once was, in foreign states. This all is because of our publicity as liars. We are crooks on the international media. Such is the situation of the motherland. A greater percentage of our population lives below the standards of humanity. No longer are our lives, wealth or honours secure in this country. With IB, ISI and Police's ever-increasing crookedness, anyone can kill a citizen of the state and go without a scratch. Not one institution works without corruption or nepotism; so much so that we have grown tolerant to this corrupt system. From PoliceGardi to delayed justice to aristocratic bureaucracy working for an autocratic leadership; none of the systems is working as they should. If we start counting the problems, this post will stretch unnecessarily. Go to a street vendor and he’ll give you a list of problems. Earnings don’t match their expenditure. They can’t get a bike despite working tirelessly every day for their whole lives. Their children can’t study due to inflation. Older or diseased members of their families can’t access any healthcare etcetera.
But when matures talk of problems, they step ahead and also think of a ‘why’ for these problems? Why do we have these persistent problems for the last 70+ years? After doing so, they conclude. That is, all these miseries are not independent of each other. They are all interconnected. The effects of one problem are the causes of more and so on. All of these are rooting from somewhere. Just like Biosciences or Computer Sciences, when we follow the paradigms set by Social sciences and study the problems of society, we come to know that these problems are stemming from a single root. That is “Poverty”. Take any problem from the ones I mentioned above, or, any problem that you see in the dear country (I might have missed some here), and see if it can’t be solved if enough money was present at appropriate points in the process to solve it? Even terrorism is a product of poverty. Here’s how: Poverty creates criminal ignorance which then creates sectarianism. Sectarianism evolves into extremism. Extremism at its prime manifests itself as terrorism. Any society which can’t enable a citizen to zoom out of his/her Roti, can’t make him/her think of education or ethics. When we are faced with the challenge of feeding our family and giving them appropriate clothing and nourishment, morals and standards can go eat shit. This results in immaturity in one’s life. Poor will majorly be immature and ignorant, and rightly so too. They are made to stay poor by force.
If poverty causes all these problems, where does poverty come from? Who causes it? Did Allah just decide to make us a ‘third world country’ forever? Is he cruel to only give some nations immense amounts of wealth and discard others completely? Indeed no! To understand the existence of poverty, we have to understand the creation of wealth. The process of creation of money involves three steps:
1. Availability of natural resources
2. Work done to convert natural resources into products
3. Selling products to generate wealth
Take a step back now, please. Is Pakistan incomplete in terms of natural resources? Take your geostrategic location. Take your four seasons. Take the minerals Pakistan produces. Take the sheer amount of agriculture practised in Pakistan. From the 2nd largest mountain of the world to 5 deserts and deep seaports which the world wishes to use, is Pakistan incomplete of natural resources? 60% of the population is the youth who can work on these resources. There is no inadequacy whatsoever of manpower or resources. So then, do we not work on these resources with the manpower that we have? I invite you to go to any road in the morning, you’ll not see a break in the passing busses and cars and bikes, all of them going somewhere. Either they are heading to some educational institutions or their jobs. Our populace is not lethargic. We all work hard. Or at least those of us who earn halal do work hard. So here comes the question which perplexes many: If we have the resources and we are making products from them too, then where is the money that we make by selling these products? Where is the money going? The simple answer is “Outside Pakistan for personal gains of elite hooligans. The detailed answer is below:
There is an unequal distribution of wealth in the country which is the root cause of poverty. Here help me, when the daughter of a street vendor is forced to sleep without having dinner, is it because there is not enough wheat in Pakistan, that she can’t be fed Roti? (Pakistan is the 8th largest producer of wheat in the world as of 2022.) When she wakes up in the morning and cannot go to school, is it because there are not enough schools? While she plays out in the street, the teenage son of a local landlord rapes that girl, in a dark corner of humanity, is it because there are not enough girls in the nation for that boy to be wed with, and therefore not be sexually suffocated to rape a minor? (I am very aware of victim-blaming and this is not it. Rapists should be publicly hung). When the vendor comes back home and learns of the incident, who should he approach to get justice? The police or the judge, who is already on the payroll of the same landlord??? Is there not enough Rupees in Pakistan that he can’t afford to leave his daily labour for some days and instead follow his case in a court while feeding his family. Unequal distribution of money is responsible for each crime here. Read the example again and see it for yourself. Evil could have been nipped in the bud if only there was an equal distribution of money in society. That girl would have had dinner at night and gone straight to school in the morning!
The corrupt elites of Pakistan hoard tons of wheat of many little girls. And they hoard lentils and sugar and flour and vegetables and petrol and other needs too. They do so to practice their monopoly. A capitalist won’t allow the basic needs of the population to be fulfilled if this means any decrease in his profit. As long as he or she is making a profit, any boy can die and any girl may be raped, no problem. Molana Fazl or Jahangir Tareen or Hamza Shehbaz or Maryam Nawaz or Bilawal or Asifa Bhutto don’t give a shit if you are killed or rapped or whatever because they are capitalists. The only thing which a capitalist cares about is his gains or losses and his/her monthly profits.
Let me please give you an example. Suppose A, B and C make a product together. They sell the product for 90RS. A takes 70RS and gives 10RS each to B and C. A then further moves on to invest in other businesses with his 70RS. He gulps the majority of their profit too, by bribing and extorting his/her other partners. Moving on this pattern, A continues to make much more money than B and C, eventually making them his/her financial slaves. Then A comes in power and makes laws that don’t require him to use bribes to get his (majorly unequal) shares from B and C. B and C are forced to live hand to mouth while working daily, all too legally. A gets the best of their work and earns an unlimited amount of wealth. This system continues and this is called the unequal distribution of wealth.
The constitution is used to make laws. These laws are made by the Senate committee in the Parliament. These are then implemented by the bureaucracy, enforced by the Police department and any misuse is dealt with by the Judiciary. The point here is that the body which makes an individual “A” capitalist and the rest of the populations just a mere collection of “Bs” and “Cs” working for that A, that body is called the Parliament. The unequal distribution of wealth is done by following legal laws made to sustain the elite’s grandeur. The elites make these laws. They are capitalists like Shareef Brothers, Bhutto Family, Choudary Brothers in Punjab. A capitalist is no God but not less than one too.
If my home has dirt placed all around it, anyone who comes in will come with dirty shoes. No matter how much I cleanse my home, until and unless I don’t clean the dirt outside; my home is going to be dirty again and again. Following the same analogy, to cleanse the society of large-scale poverty and achieve stability in Pakistan, we have to delete the cause of dirt in this country. That is, we have to change capitalist laws. To change these laws, we have to go to Parliament. And fellows, the act of replacing unjust laws that reward only the capitalist, with laws that pay everyone their fair share of income based on their contribution to society, is called revolution.
Unlike the common notion created by the capitalists, Revolution need not be swords and stones every time. Revolution need not be all bloody. Revolution is fairly simple. Replace the capitalist laws. Once these laws are changed, all institutions that follow these laws will subsequently change. The political, financial and societal cultures of corruption and nepotism will change, ushering in an era of stability and collective betterment. This is Revolution.
To make tea, we have to boil water, add milk and sugar and tea leaves in the boiling water. If you remove milk, the result will be Qahva, not tea. Similarly, Revolution also has its ingredients. These are
1. Setting a mature and mindful ideology (In this case: Socialism replaces Capitalism)
2. Spreading the ideology to get members or counter-arguments
3. Securing enough amount of humans for the said ideology to change laws
Now, to begin the revolution, we at United Pakistan discuss, spread and invite counter-arguments on the idea that the capitalistic system of governance, a system devised to serve individuals rather than society, is deepening our country’s problems. The general population will remain a victim. Injustice is intentionally enforced by the elite capitalists. We will remain downtrodden beggars with our poverty giving a slow death to each one of us. Those living in mansions will keep vacationing abroad at the cost of our hard-earned money. Terrorism will not cease with capitalism in place. Degrees rewarded will remain just a piece of paper with no job security (even though I study in NUST, a top tier the University of Pakistan, I have no job security. What must be the condition of people not as lucky as me?). Today a teenager has to think of his parent’s health, his education, his sibling’s education his job all by himself/herself. With this ideology, United Pakistan invites you to analyze the situation around you. We think that all of the above-mentioned problems need to be thought upon and solved by the publicly elected public servants and not by a struggling teenager/pre-adult. To provide basic life necessities in an honourable way is the job of people who “work” in lavish offices and stash our cash in their offshore accounts. This problem is not only mine or yours now, or just your parents or siblings. Capitalism is the problem of our society and we are teaming up for its solution. United Pakistan does not ask anyone to chant slogans which is one of the reasons that it is not known yet. We believe in an educated, simple revolution brought about by a collective effort of the society. People who have been in a party and have practised party politics will go to the Parliament and change the laws of cruelty.
Please don’t accept all that is written here as it is. If you’re not satisfied by anything, question. If yours is a better way, UP will be very interested to listen, understand and act on your proposal. All we ask however is for youngsters, after they are satisfied with our idea, to join in this revolution and make it a purpose of their lives. To join is simple too, if you think that capitalism is the problem and you agree with the system we are trying to usher in, then you are a member. There is no signatures or money involved anywhere for the members. If we can convince you to see around and deduce an answer, and that answer matches ours (Replace capitalism with Pakistani Socialism), you are a member of United Pakistan. We all had some of our childhood dreams taken away because the world in which we grew up was given to us as “merciless” and governed by the animal kingdom’s principle of “Survival of the fittest”. Save the dreams of those to come. Join hands to change the rules.
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