The Fascist regimes widely condemned for their actions.
The Pakistan army high command (regime) has communicated to the prominent YouTube journalists to play a constructive role in crafting a reconciliation message for the country. The communication’s objective was to facilitate collaboration with the opposition—Imran Khan’s party, PTI, to propel the country forward.
That is, the regime desires certain journalists to commit the “Pound Error.” –Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 2008.
Menand, coined the “Pound error” after Ezra Pound, an American poet and critic. Given Pound’s controversial opinions on historical events, regimes, and economic models, Menand succinctly captures Pound’s views as the “Pound Error.”
Pound had admiration for certain economic and social policies implemented by fascist government Mussolini’s Italy. Pound’s view on West, despised the system of usury in the capitalistic model. Pound’s support for fascist ideals and criticism of the Western economic model led to his criticism and condemnation.
Ezra Pound believed “that bad writing destroyed civilizations and that good writing could save them.” –Id. Extending this analogy to the regime, they would desire journalists to write well about them, which will in turn ‘save’ the civilization, i.e., the people of Pakistan.
One can attempt such endeavors by viewing the fascist regime through an uncritical prism. We have such example and it is condemned.
The White House is condemned for committing the Pound Error
The White House spokesperson has refrained from calling out the fascist regime in Pakistan. The spokesperson explains the murders and human rights abuses as Pakistan’s internal matter. The White House spokesperson and the Biden Administration are condemned by some scholars and talk show hosts for explaining the situation in Ukraine and Israel. These are not matters of controversy. The administration simply lies. In the context of Israel, Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in disgust have said, “Our government lies non-stop. John Kirby at the White House almost never says a sentence of truth, except by accident […] The State Department never speaks the truth.”
What goodness?
When Pakistan military’s involvement in the April 09, 2022, regime change became clearer, as Pound, one could have talked about some goodness in a regime. As the regime’s record stands, there have been no economic or social achievements as those of Mussolini that Pound judged worthy.
The fact is, under the regime, “the poverty level in Pakistan rose to 39.4 per cent from 34 per cent in just one year,” –WION September 24, 2023, citing World Bank figures. Calculations by alternate methods, accounting for rupee depreciating 50-percent against US dollar, reveals another height of the poverty line reality. Additionally, IK’s successful social reforms (Free medical and food eateries for the disadvantaged) were scraped immediately – Likely, a Western mandate.
The occurrence of the four killings (Arshad, Zille, Rehan, Shah Khalid) and during the May 09, 2023, false-flag operation the shooting of thirty-two individuals during peaceful protest, are not all inclusive examples, underscores the importance of emphasizing that fascist regimes, marked by authoritarianism and often linked to human rights abuses, are universally condemned for their actions.
Condemnation
Expressing support for fascist regimes is widely seen as ethically problematic given their history of atrocities, such as the Holocaust and militaristic aggression. Prominent authors, intellectuals, and scholars have overwhelmingly criticized fascist ideologies and their implementations.
Perspective
It’s important to approach historical events and ideologies with a nuanced and critical perspective, acknowledging the suffering caused by fascist regimes and the importance of upholding human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. The vast majority of scholarly and ethical discussions condemn fascist ideologies for their inherent dangers and destructive consequences.
In an author’s devotion to balanced writing, and to record history with varying viewpoints, one can try to be cheerful, but how? Wyndham Lewis (painter and writer) tried it by meeting Ezra Pound.
“Going on board, I discovered beneath its skull and cross-bones, intertwined with fleurs de lys [French: “lily flower”] and spattered with preposterous starspangled oddities, a heart of gold.” –Id.
I would like to get into the minds of the regime and find out what are they defending? Since April 09, 2022, regime change, the army high command has committed to human rights abuses. It has a difficult perception. The regime can meet intellectuals – But what will they sell?
Asim Munir and DG ISI Nadeem Anjum embarked on an endeavor and they met students. It is unconfirmed, but the students did not buy into their narrative. Neither the students under the two men’s oddities found a “heart of gold.”
In my article, ‘PAKISTAN’S ZIONIST RULE OF KAFKAESQUE,’ I have extensively argued that the mentors of the army high command are found in Israel. You can read the article on this platform.
Critical thinkers are well aware analysts. Nawaz Sharif party has just announced in the party’s latest manifesto to deconstruct the motor-way. Laughable it may be some, but this move is the fundamental pillar of the Kafkaesque rule. The motor-way will be shaped and contoured around the service zones (the geographic Zone A-Z), I have explained in the aforesaid article as a foundation to making “Occupation invisible.”
The article, “CRUSHING THE PALESTINIANS TACTICS APPLIED IN PAKISTAN” as the title suggests, the military high command is following the tactics used in Israel to turn Pakistan into the world’s largest concentration camp. The endeavor of occupation has no longer the enigma of a novel scientific experiment.
The regime change experiment will be condemned. The Israeli tactics have eventually fired back. ICJ’s January 2024, ruling finds genocide case against Israel “plausible” and the global perception of Israel is dismal. Israel may survive, but the regime cannot.
Certainly, the army high command can commence a positive dialog with numerous individuals to address the future of Pakistan and how the military command can fit into that conversation.
The problem is their inability to accommodate constructive conversation. The concern is, is the regime capable of divorcing her adopted ideology from Israel, possibly hatched by India and nurtured by the United States?
Aligning with the ire of notoriously powerful friends, the question is, can the army’s proxy government jump-start economic prosperity to find reprieve in her policies condemned by Pakistanis?
Then the idea becomes, for the high command to continue terrorizing the country to maintain a firm grip on the people and cultivate an economic model that may lay a path to bringing Pakistan under social equilibrium.
To achieve social equilibrium in the context of economics, what GDP growth percent should be the target of an economic model that could spell reprieve for the regime? Think of ten-percent minimal GDP growth. Else, the people will come for ‘your’ throats. The balancing act between growth and their throats is more complicated than what GDP Israel has achieved.
The IDF Major General Malti Peled on a few occasions have said, “Occupation Corrupts” and that is the existential danger to the society in Pakistan. Expect the army high command to embark upon crimes by following the commodious pathways within the rule of Kafkaesque seen in Israel’s occupation.
An anomaly is expected then. At some point, the United States has to bailout supporting the army generals because more than likely, the U.S. will become a codefendant in the matter of Pakistan “Occupation” at the ICJ. The U.S. bailout has adverse consequences for the generals.
Imran Khan ran the country without demons (corruption and no loyalty.) The lack of demons in the governance trajectory is the reason for Pakistan’s GDP ‘natural growth’ of six percent.
I define natural growth as, in the absence of toxicity in governance or demons, each individual in a course of his daily endeavors achieve some level of accomplishments. The drive in individuals and as a collective, are likely to make advancement. This advancement simplistically captures the essence of a natural growth in GDP.
We have natural growth examples. If we take a new born child, or a tree in a forest, the basics in the nature will foster natural growth at a certain percent. Other things being equal, human beings or a tree can have a natural growth.
In the case of a child, breast fed babies are likely to attain a natural growth and as soon as he is weaned off the milk, in a traditional family, his father steps in to help him grow further. We know, without the demons, famine and diseases, native Indians had a physical natural growth rate.
Trees have natural growth. Some longer life trees’ natural growth is slow because these trees invest in structural integrity and defense mechanism, etc. Each new day will likely give these trees a natural growth rate.
The point being, and a take away lesson for the regime is, within a disturbed echo system, do expect, a negative unnatural GDP growth rate. One element of the disturbed echo system is discussed below.
Grappling with reality and a dialog
Holding a sincere dialogue with Khan becomes challenging as Imran Khan has intensified the stakes. It is misleading to assert that the United States ousted Imran Khan simply because he forcefully responded ‘Absolutely Not’ when asked if he would permit the U.S. military bases.
Khan was ejected from Pakistan political system for his social policy—free health care and social services for the poor. Khan’s policies in Pakistan were enroot to undermining the capitalistic world model (and eventually the global monetary system) where certain expenditures are not allowed. For instance, expenditures on building infrastructure (bridges and highspeed rail) are not a part of the capitalistic model. Biden, pre-campaign promised the voters he would revive economy by spending on infrastructure. Biden is not allowed to run such a policy.
An attack on the literary scene
Certain authors of the past and present “work [has] failed to show sufficient critical awareness of those ideologies that worked against truly revolutionary change in the West, and therefore became a vehicle for these pernicious ideologies.”er turnout.
A Choice of literary character to suppress “pernicious ideologies.”
In reference to Pakistan, among the better ones, I will single out one person to make a point. Now don’t expect a character like Dr. Moed Pirzada, to connect the dots for a solution and criticize the United States, his new home. In all of this, to expect Moed to earnestly address Pakistan’s regime situation in a “sufficient critical awareness” for the West is a fallacy. For a ‘subjugated brown-man’ Moed, there are consequences.
The consequences
Pound faced consequences for his views or as he is perceived, “he fought other people’s battle that he believed in.” Pound, once said this in one of his radio broadcasts, “Also Mussolini talking about the fight to grow enough wheat to feed Italy as being the kind of fight he prefers. Well, that was the effort that brought out American hostility all right enough.” – Ezra Pound, “Why Pick on the Jew.” March 6, 1942.
Threatening the global monetary system or economics has a price. Ezra Pound at the end of WWII, was eventually arrested in Italy, brought to Washington D.C. and imprisoned on treason charges or imprisoned from the gaps in our knowledge. Pound’s crime was not only that he put out radio broadcasts in Rome in support of Mussolini. The much ignored aspect, Pound was also an avid critic of the capitalistic industrial production model and the usury in the capitalistic system.
The consequences for the military high command to deviate from the ‘plan’ is the question? For the regime to finding individuals holding greater character and intellect to progress in their quest for getting endowed with a favorable exposure is the question? As they are compelled to implement milestones within the pathways of Kafkaesque (or the plan), challenges will emerge.
Israel’s devastating record will haunt them for generations to come
A miraculous attempt can breathe life into an autistic policy of the regime. This life can never come from intellectual accomplishments. The tragedy is that the army command are underprepared intellectuals. When intellect goes dark, the allure of music becomes apparent.
Is it cutting your nose off, to save your face? Someone assassinated these men (Mahatma Gandhi; Patrice Lumumba, First PM Congo; Che Guevara, Revolutionist in Bolivia; Salvador Allende, President of Chile; Aldo Moro, PM of Italy; Yitzhak Rabin, PM Israel) for ideological differences.
The regime is led by the nose—they have no ideology. The army high command is given the ideological differences to commit to. They are hell bent on to commit murders, kill and assassinate. Intellectual thought cannot see these men as nice people. This is the most reconciliatory message I can craft as I come closer and closer, but stop from committing the “Pound Error.”
My Analysis
The regime will act, the people will react. There exists a strong high tide aimed at to ever sour. The tide is but one. Both the people and the military command cannot ride it simultaneously. “
Thou art a beaten dog beneath the hail,” is taken from Ezra Pound’s poem, ‘Hugh Selwyn Mauberley.’ The line suggests a sense of defeat, submission, and vulnerability. The dog, take it to be the people or the Pakistani army generals, downtrodden, or defeated.
’The Apes of God’ title is borrowed from Wyndham Lewis’ work.
Bio: Mian Hameed is the author of MANIPULATION OF THE MIND: Our Children and Our Policy at Peril. He is a student of the U.S. and South Asia foreign policy. My articles do not present the conventional thoughts of the mainstream media. To read my work, click the Home link below.