After being defeated in a no-confidence vote, Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan is now claiming he has been replaced by an “imported government.” But for all the bombastic nationalism, Khan’s rule was marked by deference to the IMF and handouts to the rich.

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.

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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    3 years ago

    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

    • DivineChaos100 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Just throwing things but i am pretty sure that the " “neoliberal populist anti-imperialist nationalists” who leftists somewhere apparently sympathize with" is supposed to mean Assad.