“…Pakistan enters a new phase of the class struggle…” - Is it so?

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Pakistan bourgeoisie .. now finds itself in a complete impasse, which threatens to drag it down into a horrific abyss.

This noisy, polemic, partial it is, makes some important points:

“…For the lawyers and professional politicians “democracy” is a matter of getting into lucrative parliamentary and ministerial positions. Their main objection to Musharraf is not one of principle but merely that the army was getting too big a share of the state pie and not leaving enough for them. For the “political class” the whole question boils down to a struggle to see who gets their snout into the pig’s trough.

The American bourgeois have other interests. They have their own (much bigger) pig’s trough at home. The defence of what they call “America’s interests” is ultimately connected with this. But in order to protect “America’s interests” (that is, the interests of the big US banks and multinationals) they must attend to foreign policy….

All the petty intrigues and manoeuvres are taking place at the top. The journalists and commentators are fascinated by this “political drama”, which resembles the noisy squabbling among the midgets at a circus. All these endless combinations and deals are only the froth on the waves of the ocean that are the visible expression of the powerful currents underneath. What is decisive, however, is not the former but the latter.

The crisis in Pakistan is not a superficial political crisis but a crisis of the regime itself. Weak Pakistan capitalism, rotten and corrupt to the marrow, has led a vast country of 160 million people into a horrific impasse. For more than half a century the degenerate Pakistan bourgeoisie has shown itself incapable of carrying the nation forward. It now finds itself in a complete impasse, which threatens to drag it down into a horrific abyss.”

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