Spectacular times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18DF94-qiGo


Our everyday life has been superseded by an homogenous stream of images meant to be contemplated. No play, no action, no love--just a stream of images coming from the television, spectacular politics meant to be contemplated, premanufactured ideology that stifles our creativity, and a world we build but are unable to own.

"Real" choices are superseded by premanufactured "choiceless" choices--support the democrats or the republicans, support america or islamic extremists, buy a commodity over the other, support a nation over the other....

A society that reproduces generalized alienation and misery deserves nothing more than a total destruction beyond what memory can recollect. The real politics, the politics of "rage and dreams", have no mercy, accept no reform.

Taking control of our lives means taking control of the same world we built. The day we smash countries, gods, and masters will be the day when man becomes complete.

Revolutionary times in Pakistan?

http://www.marxist.com/emergency-pakistan-masses-answer-preparing-revolution051107.htm
In short, in recent years the Pakistani labour movement has been gaining momentum. Both the state and the masses are becoming increasingly confrontational, and everything is culminating right now with the State declaring "martial law". Illegal unions are increasingly more powerful, and class contradictions are becoming riper.