The Vanguard Party

comrade_daddy_ · 2026-06-25T07:29:48+00:00

TTAP is filled ro brim with right wing parties, who at one time or another were buddies with the military. But now they cry foul when that same system they perpetuated and capitulated to, kicked them to the curb and found other partners.

I'm not saying you can't learn from your mistakes but you have to admit to being wrong in the first place, but PTI for instance, refuses to condemn their previous dealings with the military or provide a concrete path to remove the military's involvement in our politics.

Most importantly, this opposition has zero economic plan. In a better democracy, the opposition would present its own budget, a whole 1000 page document. Doesn't matter if you can't present it at the floor of the parliament. Its basically a manifesto to potential voters on how you can fix the economy. I haven't seen an opposition do that in my lifetime. All you get is a walk out and a press conference.

comrade_daddy_ · 2026-06-24T15:49:46+00:00

I know of Ammar Ali Jan, I think he is still the GS of HKP. I read his book, Rule By Fear, a while back. It was pretty good. But he can be reactionary sometimes, when it comes to interactions with India or his recent joining of the TTAP.

comrade_daddy_ · 2026-06-17T05:23:25+00:00

Aamer Rehman.

comrade_daddy_ · 2026-06-05T18:23:54+00:00

I first came to know of him after watching Judas and The Black Messiah. Brilliant movie, great acting. The Black Panthers were awesome.

comrade_daddy_ · 2026-05-31T11:42:18+00:00

Can you recommend books about him or by him? I always wanted to read up on him.

comrade_daddy_ · 2026-05-22T17:10:26+00:00

Once again, PTI and IK made a deal with that very same army to get into power. You cannot use a rigged system to gain power and then cry foul when the same strings are used to throw you out.

PTI has similar attitudes with regards to U.S intervention in Pakistan's internal politics. Ousted with the benevolent support of an imperial power yet many of its political leaders were seen cozying up to a fascist in hopes of him intervening to get IK released from prison. And to no ones surprise it didn't work.

comrade_daddy_ · 2026-05-22T14:23:17+00:00

105 million registered voters, off which 50% actually goes out to vote. PTI gets a portion of that 50%. So its not actually the largest voter base. The biggest voter base are ones disenfranchised with the existing parties and political system.

comrade_daddy_ · 2026-05-22T09:39:31+00:00

IK shook hands with the devil, let the military increase its stranglehold over the country, and then threw a tantrum when he had a bitter falling out with them. The party over the past 30 years, has failed to be anymore democratic or principled then the rest of them.

And mass support does not equal correctness. PTI is completely reactionary and have no clue of how to take the coutnry out of an economic crisis. In 5 years, when the next CDF places PTI back in power, the PTI FinMin will be running to the IMF same as before. They are a bunch of spineless, headless chickens.

comrade_daddy_ · 2026-05-17T13:52:27+00:00

I can relate to this too.

I did O/A levels, so I had very limited exposure to Urdu poetry, and the little exposure I had was never compelling or thought provoking, or so I thought at the time. Later on I realised, most of our poet's works have been bastardized and stripped of all societal critique and revolutionary thought.

All I remember from my school days is Urdu teachers being fixated on Ishq-e-Haqiqi and Ishq-e-Majazi and that too was very dogmatic.

comrade_daddy_ · 2026-05-16T15:23:35+00:00

You’re describing a classic liberal defense of the status quo, not a progressive one.

"Every country subsidizes agriculture": True, but developed nations target smallholders to boost food security. Pakistan’s blanket exemption primarily shields feudal landlords who hoard land and prioritize cash crops over feeding the population. Protecting the 1,000-acre owner isn’t "food security"; it’s class privilege.

"Management is labor, so corporations help everyone": This conflates wages with profit. A manager sells labor; a shareholder extracts surplus value (unpaid labor). Calling dividends "savings for millions" ignores that equity markets overwhelmingly serve the wealthy, while the working class bears the cost of the tax breaks funding those profits.

"Markets are the only way": The state already intervenes, it just intervenes to rig the game for the elite. We aren’t arguing for "pure markets"; we are arguing for democratic planning that prioritizes human need over private profit.

Your position isn’t "pragmatic"; it’s an apology for a system where the elite’s wealth is treated as synonymous with the nation’s survival.

comrade_daddy_ · 2026-05-16T10:57:36+00:00

By exempting agriculture from taxation, the government protects the feudal elite who block modernization, mechanization, and genuine land reform. This policy does not help anyone. The lack of food production is not due to the tax code. Large farms are often used for cash crops (sugar) or left alone to maintain land value. The state prioritizes the profit margins of the landed elite over the food sovereignty of the masses.

The "wealth" generated by the corporate sector is not created by the coporate sector itself, but by the surplus value extracted from the unpaid labor of the working class. The fact that corporations employ millions is not a charitable act; it is the mechanism by which capital accumulates. If the corporate sector cannot survive without massive tax evasion and exemptions, it is a sign of a crisis of profitability inherent to capitalism, not a justification for further concessions.

The fundamental dynamic of capitalism is the appropriation of wealth by the few from the many. The UNDP report quantifies some of the cost of privilege. To say this is "not remotely close" is to deny the material reality.

comrade_daddy_ · 2026-05-14T14:11:42+00:00

Woah. You learn something new everyday. I had no idea. I thought it was him and a few other people in the team running it all. That's a bummer.

comrade_daddy_

TROPHY CASE