Let's tolerate the growth of the GSA - Global Socialist Alliance

[Bilal.]

If you are referring to Bhutto he was replaced by Zia ( comrade of the capitalist bloc ) and as per your logic path Pakistan should have become first-world. But did it ?

Still better than our flirt with socialism in the 70s:
There had been many times in Pakistan’s history when stupid decisions were taken by the government. Nationalization in Bhutto’s era was one of those decisions. 22 Families lost everything that they had worked for all their lives. BECO (Batala Engineering Company) is one such example.

Late Chaudhry Mohammad Latif was the founder and chairman of the Batala Engineering Company (BECO). After attending a meeting of leading Muslims in Batala, who wanted to establish Muslim industries in the face of Hindu dominance of retail, that he struck upon the idea of forming BECO.The company was established in 1932. , He sold its first 10 shares to a lime merchant for Rs 10. In the early years, he worked almost single-handedly to build up the company from its first workshop in two rooms and a veranda. Over the course of the next forty years, and in spite of losing much of his business when he migrated to Pakistan at Partition, he built BECO into a stalwart of the engineering industry in Pakistan. when the migration took place and all the muslims came to Pakistan. BECO donated a very large amount of its money to the govt of Pakistan, so the institutions could start functioning.

At its peak BECO employed 6,000 workers producing tools and engines that drove forward Pakistan’s fledgling economy. A model of Pakistani industry and the pride of Pakistan, BECO was a regular stop by visiting foreign dignitaries

Board of Directors (Lto R)

Chaudry Abdul Karim, Arif Latif, CM Latif, Khan Abdul Rehman , HMS Chaudri

Visit by Chinese Prime minister Chou En Lai. He was so impressed by BECO that he vowed to send Chinese engineers there for training.

Visit by Syrian Head Of State

King of Thailand on a visit to BECO during his state visit to Pakistan. Mr. Latif showing him a diesel engine coupled with pump. In those days all visiting head of states were shown BECO as a national asset

Mr. Latif with his team showing slow speed diesel engine parts to visiting dignitries. A lot of these were sent to East Pakistan to drain out water and produce power.
In background is Mr. Schneider BECO’s German works manager and Chief Engineer.

Mr. Latif with visiting KSB pumps director from Germany. BECO produced pumps in collaboration with KSB pumps with Siemens electrical motors in the BECO Kot Lakhpat factory

Visit by Pakistan’s Prime Minister

Being an Engineer Mr. Latif always believed in making progress in development of ideas and technology. In an interview couple of years back he said “I believe in creating money and not in making money.” “We can create money by employing more people and by expanding our business. Money, as such, should have no attraction for any reasonable person. What should really move us is the task of adding to our national wealth.”

Mr. Latif was a man of great genius and dedication . He brought BECO to teh heights of glory. Beco was ahead of its time in terms of technology.

Concrete Mixers

With his team of Japanese engineers

Machine tool division with lathe machines.

Testing the gates for barrages and canals

Machine tools division.

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto took over power on December 21, 1971 and on January 1, 1972 his government promulgated the Nationalization and Economic Reforms Order nationalizing 31 key industrial units, completely wiping out BECO. The company’s name was changed to PECO (Pakistan Engineering Company). Like other nationalised companies, PECO did not cut it and by 1998, it had run up an acknowledged accumulated loss of Rs 761.58 billion. In October 1977, Gen Zia-ul-Haq offered to return control of the company to Mr Latif and his management. Mr Latif refused to accept the offer unless the same were extended to owners of all nationalised industries.

It is such a sad thing that in the name of the country Mr.Bhutto ruined what was something to be proud of as a Pakistani. Had BECO remained with its owners we would have put Tata and Birla to shame. Govt abandoned the factory, sold out tons and tons of steel in the building structer and , and now what is left of it ,is an Industrial graveyard.

 

[Bilal.]

abandoned halls in the office at the Badami Bagh location

The desolate time office crumbling with time surround by acres of nothingness. At one point it was responsible for a factory chock a block full of sheds. There was no space to move without encountering a crane, machines, raw materials, spare parts and 3000 workers.

Every single shed was taken apart and all steel used in its construction was sold off made money pocketed. The glorious days pictures show the strength and amount of steel used in the sheds. Thats a gigantic amount of cash ……..

The office at the Badami Bag factory……the only remaining building at the 52 acre unit that was completely covered in production sheds. Wondering why this was also not pulled down. Perhaps not enough steel in the construction to sell

graves haunted by spirits of diesel pumps, machine tools, textile power looms, concrete mixer, diesel engines………………………….

This room was filled with drawing boards jammed next to each other. A place of engineering creativity which now lies in ruin.

If a pillar has huge steel poles then its no surprise the sheds were demolished, scrapped and sold

Foundations of the factory under the grave like mounds………a true industrial graveyard where hope for Pakistan has been buried by greed of political leaders and bureaucrats.

A true industrial graveyard……….. When successive governments failed to run the company the Badami Bagh factory was demolished to the ground. Surprise surprise the aim was to plot it and make into a housing scheme……The family now has a stay order on this, but they often wonder what good is it when everything has been destroyed

As Mr. dadbuoy said in an interview to a loacal newspaper

” Had we gone at the rate of growth during the decade of 1960’s, I reckon we would have definitely been an Asian tiger by now”

 

[OIO]

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zLELV6mhgj9fR0KZ6AGng81RCLaQJTbo?usp=sharing

From that folder on Google Drive :
File : GSA - Global Socialist Alliance

GSA - Global Socialist Alliance

Author : Rene AJM Veerman ( https://facebook.com/rene.veerman.90 )
See also my youtube channels
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INTRODUCTION
It’s August 2020 when i write this, and from my many years of experience debating matters of life, death, and the most horrible forms of suffering from the relatively luxuriously comfortable home with fast internet on online forums,


I conclude that Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela and now Turkey too, have embraced each other in an uprising against capitalism, but in a way that most who were raised as pure capitalists can not trust yet, while i *can* trust this new alliance.


My discussion adversaries have educated me, patiently and strictly and wisely, to tolerate socialist countries with real military and economic power.


In exchange, and effectively, we educate each other in the arts of creating and maintaining peace through the application of strength and will power.

The essence of what created the wars between capitalism, socialism and which then drew in the hardliners of the Muslim faiths, has been war, which is discussed in my document ‘Humane Capitalism’, which can be found at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mL8hZyKe3vYOUsypjx3uKtULQ1HhpIQmmIujGUu4okI/edit?usp=sharing in the folder https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zLELV6mhgj9fR0KZ6AGng81RCLaQJTbo?usp=sharing , is the tendency of the dumber members of the human youthful people, to actually end up in real fights with each other.

The fact that these dumber members learn, like we all have as souls at some point in our careers as souls, that real violence is very ugly and to be avoided, because of it’s consequences.

Meanwhile, the smarter humans which in my view encompass all of the law-abiding and the peaceful humans, are protected by police and military forces, from these young humans who are constantly mis-informed by those who choose to work for the evil. And i haven’t yet figured out why evil does as evil does. Maybe it’s their instincts and their reflexes, maybe it’s more than that, maybe it’s something else than that.
What i do know for sure is that emotions can get toxic if consumed/enjoyed in harmful quantities or combinations.


Greed, for instance, can lead entire countries worth of valuable human souls, into the total misery of large scale war.

But discipline, is not much better. Enforcing discipline on a population can lead quickly to authoritarianism, to a police state where the politicians and their police and media forces become plain lazy and numb and dumb enough to enforce plan after plan onto that population, until a revolution by the people resets the rich and the politicians and the police forces to actually serve the population again.

In short, i believe that ANY excesses of mantras or slogans to live by, even in dynamic combinations thereof, have a huge potential to create large scale suffering, as surely as a medical pandemic does, but less quickly than a medical pandemic.

Excesses of slogans are a more gradual growth of a healthy or semi-healthy society (regional, like a city or province) or country, into a toxic society or country.




CONCLUSIONS : CAPITALISM MUST LEARN TO TOLERATE THE SOCIALISTS. RELIGIONS MUST LEARN TO TOLERATE ATHEISTS, LGBTQ+ MEMBERS AND ANYONE WHO DOES NOT SUBSCRIBE TO THEIR WAY OF LIFE.

Even if this does take decades more, we are now moving from a uni-polar world with only 1 policing country (the USA) into a multi-polar world (geo-politically speaking),
with the new Global Socialist Alliance, as i call it, as only the 2nd pole.

To end the suffering, capitalist countries (which are mostly Christian, and Jewish) also have to make peace with the Muslims, and with the Atheists as well. Because, if you think about it for a second or two, Atheism is a way of life, a ‘religion in and of itself’, a religion which simply has a strong desire not to have their life influenced by any of the Gods, nor by Angels.






CONCLUSIONS : WHERE DO WE NEED TO DRIVE HUMANITY TO, AND HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE US TO GET THERE?


We need to practice our kung fu, our debating skills, and our money making skills.
Unfortunately, i can not predict when we’ll get at our destination (a strong yet peaceful human home world (Earth)). Not yet at least. But i’m only 43 when i wrote this, with a very healthy body that should last me at least 3 to 5 decades more.



I wrote this myself.
Your thoughts and comments, please?

It's not capitalism or socialism, not westernizing or easternizing. Every country or civilization has to find the way to modernization. The modernization is with two principles, the STEM and liberal arts, to be compatible with science and other civilization.

 

[PeaceGen]

It's not capitalism or socialism, not westernizing or easternizing. Every country or civilization has to find the way to modernization. The modernization is with two principles, the STEM and liberal arts, to be compatible with science and other civilization.

i agree with your statement..