It is the Pakistani state, not nationalists, that are fascist.
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Posts Tagged ‘ liberalism ’
Fascism’s Blurred Lines | VOICES
The Allure of Al-Huda: Reconciling Liberalism and Literalist Islam
اردو | Liberalism lies at the heart of the practices of Islamic piety by the Al-Huda organization. That affects how certain Islamic practices are understood — and denounced.
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Neoliberalism against Privatization
اردو | The Supreme Court’s decision to void the privatization of the Pakistan Steel Mills retained an unsaid pact with capitalist interests even as it seemed to subvert them.
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TQ Chāt | # 17
This week's Tanqeed reading recommendation list ranges over the subject of surveillance and capitalism, Franz Kafka, consumerist politics to the stagnancy of modern day Pakistan's Left, Angela Davis on misogyny and race, and choice feminism (if it hasn't infuriated you already).
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On Not Speaking of Palestine
English | اردو What shocked me was something I had not anticipated: the latent and sometimes overt hostility to Palestine solidarity and sympathy for Zionist propaganda. In 2009, I moved to Lahore for a year. It was my first visit ever to Pakistan, and to the city where my father was born, and from where my...
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