Hassan Mujtaba

Rob Robinson breaks down why housing, wages, and inequality are an economic system that profits from keeping us precarious.

The 1% profits while the rest of us struggle to survive, and people are finally starting to wake up.

What will we do next?

👉 Full episode youtu.be/gZcvVZbTDAE

and culture. Authoritarianism is fundamentally incompatible with the idea of socialism. (2/2)

By preventing Maria Corina Machado and other opposition leaders from participating in Venezuelan elections, Maduro definitely shot himself and other socialists in the foot. Democracy is the essence of socialism extended to ALL aspects of society, viz., politics, economy, (1/2)

A party that claims to speak for Palestinians yet reinforces an apartheid like structure against Ahmedis and other minorities at home, while simultaneously disrupting civic life in the name of protests, needs to be checked, if not stopped.

Socialism doesn't works but free market fundamentalism does 👇🏾

The bigger puzzle should be that despite having a military that is comparable to the world's leading powers, why doesn't Pakistan have an economy and an edge in research, science, & technology just like them?

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Photo of UAW President Walter Reuther with his quote: "We have to reassert the sovereignty of people of profits in America."

"We have to reassert the sovereignty of people above profits in America."
-UAW's 4th President, Walter Reuther

really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not

YouTube video by Federal Post Brain Drain Crisis in Pakistan | Hassan Mujtaba ft. Dr. Usman Chohan | The Economic Angle EP:12

which is rooted in relations of unequal (economic) exchange and imperialist displacement of people in the global South.
youtu.be/OcXObVe4e8U?... (2/2)

I had a wonderful time discussing with Dr Usman W. Chohan about the recent wave of brain drain in Pakistan and its structural determinants, along with the political economy of migration, especially towards the rich world, (1/2)

Trump’s Motives Can Be Opaque. I Asked a Feminist Economist to Bare Them. Trump’s policies cater to the 1 percent, but they don’t neatly align with capitalist interests in the traditional sense.

The brilliant Nancy Folbre on the existing state of political affairs in the United States:

“Among many voters, the fear of losing even small privileges may outweigh the hope of much bigger gains from a different form of solidarity.”

truthout.org/articles/tru...

Opinion: No, politics haven’t become polarized. Only one side has moved to the extremes Many became attracted to fringe ideas and conspiracy theories on the right, but there hasn’t been a similar shift, of any significant scale, on the left

From Doug Saunders, one of Canada's best columnists: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Why Employers’ Back-to-Office Mandates May Backfire | The Tyee Research suggests workers won’t be happy. Or more efficient.

Working from offices may contribute to workplace culture and unity for employees.

But there's evidence that flexible work can help a company’s performance and inclusivity, while hard rules on either in-office or at-home work can negatively affect employee health, reports @isaacphannay.bsky.social.

A Primer to Capitalism Capitalism is the dominant economic system around the world. However, for a system that determines so many aspects of our economic lives, most people are unaware of its modus operandi.Capitalism is th...

where workers own the firms and share the profits. It is a short read and written in a manner that is accessible to both academic and non-academic audiences. (5/5)
www.epw.in/journal/2025...
@profwolff.bsky.social @democracyatwork.bsky.social

He also lays bare the relationship of capitalism with other unequal systems like racism and fascism, and how they feed on each other. Wolff concludes by proposing a practical alternative to capitalism in the form of an economy comprising democratic enterprises, (4/5)

and its associated problems (specifically its undemocratic, hierarichal nature which leads to other economic issues like poverty, economic inequality and so on) before going on to clarify some popular myths about capitalism. (3/5)

Wolff discusses capitalism's similarities/differences from economic systems preceding it (i.e., slavery, feudalism), its definitional dilemmas (convincing readers that it is NOT a system of 'free markets' as is commonly (mis)understood), (2/5)

In this piece, I review Prof. Richard Wolff's 'Understanding Capitalism', which is a brief yet thorough account of capitalism, beginning from its genesis and extending to the present time. (1/5)

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Does the law of the land not apply to these so-called tribal areas? What allows these tribal families to act like a state within a state & murder with impunity anyone, including their kin, in the name of barbarian virtues? Serious lapse of the writ of Baluchistan and Pakistan's government.

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I wonder who these “center left Dems” are for whom regular center-left social democrats (by rest of the world standards) appear too far on the left 🤔

It's called 'capitalism'.

This reminded me of what Haroon Bilour's late father, Bashir Bilour--who was also martyred by the TTP-- said, "the night when we are destined to be in the grave can never be spent at home.” Rest in peace to all Pakistanis who became victims of terrorism.

The curse of the 'Matthew Effect'...

No denying that we all have to make a living, but it would be interesting to see if this dynamic is indeed behind many of the egregious takes that Punjabi heartland progressives are taking nowadays, especially vis-à-vis periphery nationalists.

Some recommendations on history of economic thought

اَلّٰلھُمَّ لْعَنْ قَتَلَۃَ اَلحُسَیِنَؑ وَ اُولاَدِ اَلحُسَیِنَؑ وَ اَصحَابِ الحُسینؑ
‏⁦‪#ashura

مظلوم و محکوم اقوام کے لیے آپ کی تمام کوششوں کو سرخ سلام