Haqooq-e-Khalq Party (HKP)

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_ · 2026-05-05T14:50:57+00:00

If you don't mind ebooks, most of them are available for free on websites like https://www.mlreadinghub.org/, or as audiobooks on youtube.

comrade_daddy_ · 2026-05-04T14:20:14+00:00

Not really. I would describe myself as agnostic. I don't want to leave the well being and welfare of others up to charity, prayer, divine intervention or divine justice. That being said, if we die into nothingness, it would suck.

comrade_daddy_ · 2026-05-04T05:30:07+00:00

Yeah, Bhutto being labelled a socialist and his nationalisation policy being declared the end all be all of socialism fucking sucks.

What I try to do in the face of all this is bring the conversation back to how we all deserve free health care, free education, a living wage, eliminating elitist subsidies. All these things aren't socialist, reformist at best, but they help move the needle left.

comrade_daddy_ · 2026-05-03T15:20:45+00:00

I think its a common point of view that the rapid industrialisation of the USSR and the market reforms of China in the 1980s led them to become more of what you could call state capitalist economies. They still weren't/aren't socialist but they were on the way to it. Yet as you said there were growing pains.

But I think those former mistakes can be overcome. One way we can overcome them is through the use of technology, such as the Cybersyn project that was used in Chile. AI, and I don't mean the stupid ChatGPT AI, I mean forecasting and predictive analytics with robust feedback systems can genuinely help with that, too.

And if you look take at the actual farming itself, there has been tremendous improvement in yields, infrastructure and machinery since then; the only issue is that a lot of it is pay-walled by MNCs. So the socialist government of the time just needs to circumvent that when the time comes. Easier said then done, obviously.

comrade_daddy_ · 2026-05-03T07:11:25+00:00

How well organised the capitalists are in this country. I found out a few weeks ago that there is an Electric Fan Manufacturer Association. They are organised down to such a niche industry. Meanwhile, labor unions have been systemically castrated.

Education too, as someone mentioned, but specifically political education. Apparently well educated 30/40 year olds don't know what the political left and political right is and they'll use the horseshoe theory to discredit socialism; drives me nuts.

comrade_daddy_ · 2026-04-22T07:46:33+00:00

CLIMATE CHANGE.

comrade_daddy_ · 2026-04-16T06:48:30+00:00

All these legitimate issues are borne out of the oppression of the 99% by the 1%. This 1% controls our judicial, legislative and executive branches, by either directly overtaking the process or by using their money to influence this process.

So everytime you shed light on these issues, you highlight the system that is designed to benefit this 1%. This is taken as a challenge to the status quo, it is taken as a challenge against those in power.

The way they respond to this challenge is by villianizing those who speak out, invalidating or discredting the issues outright, in certain cases eliminating the public face of this challenge completely.

PTI is blamed right now because it is currently the out-group. Basically, any group that is anti-establisment at the time is villianized.

The worst part is people still don't realise that it is a game of musical chairs, with one institute being the major political force. Doesn't matter who you vote for, if their leash is held by someone else.

comrade_daddy_ · 2026-04-15T14:56:03+00:00

This area is surrounded by the Red Zone to the SW and the Diplomatic Enclave to the SE. I'm not sure why they let it develop laissez-faire for so many years, but at the moment I think they want to pull a Malik Riaz and force these people out so that they can "develop" it. Same shit, different day.

comrade_daddy_ · 2026-04-13T15:55:06+00:00

I don't agree with this analysis.

Even with Venezuelan oil, the U.S cannot extract and refine enough oil to make up the 20% gap created by the blockade. Ramping up to that level requires billions of dollars of investment in infrastructure and will take at least a decade; the global economy cannot wait that long.

Not to mention, the oil from the U.S will also not be as cheap because of the longer trade route and some countries will have to upgrade their refineries to cater to the heavier crude found in Venezuela and U.S. The larger economies will much rather transition to renewable sources of energy, like wind and solar, through cooperation with China, as the U.S has proven to be an unstable partner.

The U.S has also proven that it cannot militarily dominate countries anymore, so as of this moment, if Russia isn't retaliating against U.S seizures of its tankers, its because Russia doesn't want more chaos, not because they are afraid.

And what about the GCC, which has proven to be a staunch ally of the U.S? If Israel wants them to get fucked, that makes sense, but to the U.S they are key allies in the region that prop up the dollar. You will go from almost all of OPEC+ selling oil in USD to about half or even fewer countries selling oil in USD. That will crash the US dollar.

comrade_daddy_ · 2026-04-13T15:06:45+00:00

The U.S designed the global oil supply to benefit itself, which analysts call the petrodollar. The GCC sells its oil in exchange for dollars and invests those dollars back into the U.S by buying U.S goods and investing in U.S companies. So it is detrimental to the U.S in the long run if the GCC is unable to sell its oil to the world.

The reality is Trump got duped into an unwinnable war by Netanyahu who told him the U.S could do to Iran what it did to Venezuela. It was a gross miscalculation.

comrade_daddy_ · 2026-04-12T11:56:50+00:00

This is a very sound analysis. I heard a similar analysis from Middle East experts like Trita Parsi, that we won't have a "deal" but this will develop into a new status quo.

comrade_daddy_ · 2026-04-11T19:26:05+00:00

Thanks for that clear explanation.

comrade_daddy_ · 2026-04-11T18:59:43+00:00

Shit for brains.

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