HR Ahmad*
Dr Anis Alam started his talk with the KM equation: Means of production = Forces of production x Relations of production. Surplus value stems from this universal equation dealing with its component ‘Relations of production’ as a holy grail of capitalism at the cost of workers exploitation and alienation. This surplus value forms the basis of a gradient society as a driver of a class struggle.
HR Ahmad
The significance of ROP should be understood to be implemented. Now when colonies came out of foreign rules, some woke up to the sound and fury of ROP and some were and are sleeping to make a nation by shedding the curse of illiteracy and setting up a genuine land reform. Those opened the two doors, seem to have progressed. Those who could not, became victims of being captured as a client state in the form of neocolonialism. We can learn from the SIPRI Report Stockholm how 200 countries of this planet are doing to serve their people, or elites or both but are economically independent sans doles.
Marxism is a science to be dared to understand to reason instead of treating it as an ideology. We should learn how Lenin, Mao, Che, Ho inter alia studied Marxism as a culmination of philosophers. KM was the first to land on the earth by studying the postindustrial laboratories of England. His three volumes should be studied and one should avail the opportunity to do electives at the Frankfurter Schule to learn interpretations of KM’s writings in modern times. Dr Anis distilled from the history that we cannot make a nation, if we are personally not interested in it. It means we have found the enemies; it is us. He asked further where is one of our Ho, Mao, Che, Parks, Mustafa Kamal and Willy Brandt? Enlightenment is the first step to enable all children of Pakistan going to schools but being independent of parent’s income. They are the seeds of a nation. This is one of the richest countries of the world being grossly mismanaged. It is because we all are made silent by being a client state, oligarchy and elite capture. The solution lies in nurturing an indigenous leadership who understands the indigenous problems and issues to synthesize contradictions to make a new history using the ladder of education, industrialization and democracy. Let there be light from the matter.
Dedicated to the fond memory of Dr Anis Alam, a disciple of Abdus Salam.
*Author can be reached at hrahmad.alrazi@gmail.com
