actu­al­ly, mdp is worse: while oth­er par­ties are open­ly elit­ist and fas­cist, Mdp dis­hon­est­ly pre­tends to be a work­er’s par­ty (as Lenin would describe it, mdp is a ‘bour­geois labour par­ty’) and par­a­sit­i­cal­ly occu­pies spaces that can fos­ter and nur­ture actu­al work­ing class move­ments.

In my arti­cle on mal­dives inde­pen­dent, I talked about how MDP is fun­da­men­tal­ly a right-wing cap­i­tal­ist fac­tion by self-admis­sion. they are sheep­dogs that lure us back into the lib­er­al-demo­c­ra­t­ic cap­i­tal­ist fold. the fas­cist par­ties like pnf/pnc actu­al­ly need them to exist, because their par­tic­i­pa­tion legit­imis­es the sys­tem as a whole by pro­vid­ing per­for­ma­tive ‘com­pe­ti­tion’.

Here’s a direct quote from Nasheed: “I am a conservative…I feel a nat­ur­al kin­ship with the school of thought that brought us Thatch­erism and Reaganomics”. In that arti­cle, he thanks cap­i­tal­ism and goes as far as to say we need to emu­late ronald rea­gan and mar­garet thatch­er. Fur­ther, con­sid­er this excerpt: “Mr. Nasheed…relied heav­i­ly on the (british) Con­ser­v­a­tive par­ty for its exper­tise in cam­paign­ing and pol­i­cy devel­op­ment”. A self-described neolib­er­al Thatcherite and Reagan­omist, whose poli­cies were in great part planned by Thatch­er-wor­ship­ping British con­ser­v­a­tives.

To sug­gest that their poli­cies were inten­tion­al­ly left-wing, no mat­ter how aligned or ben­e­fi­cial, is to sug­gest that the Tories and self-described neolib­er­al con­ser­v­a­tive were con­scious­ly enact­ing left-wing poli­cies. Don’t you think it’s more pos­si­ble that they were co-opt­ing the poli­cies and lan­guage of the left, much like oth­er neolib­er­als around the world, to manip­u­late their vot­ers?

espe­cial­ly since state-wel­fare mea­sures (sim­i­lar­ly to the british, by the way) were an imme­di­ate neces­si­ty since nasheed’s pres­i­den­cy coin­cid­ed with the 2008 glob­al finan­cial cri­sis.

I crit­i­cise MDP/Democrats so much because they decep­tive­ly occu­py the space of a work­ing class move­ment, pre­vent­ing an actu­al one that rep­re­sents the work­ing class from ever devel­op­ing. Not because I think MDP/Democrats ever resem­bled any­thing left-wing, even at the start. They’re impos­tors.

Even if they co-opt our lan­guage and ideals today (they already are doing this), I’d no longer believe or accept them (or any of their youth-wing pro­pa­gan­dists).

And hey, it’s not like they’re even the worst. PPM, PNC, the Gayy­ooms, Dr. Waheed — they’re all far more bru­tal fas­cists — but they’re only the oth­er side of the polit­i­cal coin.

Because you see, when neolib­er­als like MDP are pressed, when their elites are threat­ened and class inter­ests are at stake, they would soon­er work with the fas­cists against the work­ing class (even if said fas­cists hate them and have active­ly tried harm­ing them before!) rather than dis­man­tle the cap­i­tal­ist sys­tem that pro­duces fas­cists. That is why they are an “oppo­si­tion that can’t oppose” — not because they’re “bur­dened by their own elite”. They were nev­er a “people’s” par­ty.

The MDP-loy­al­ist faux left-wing impos­tors are the first things we need to clean up in our own house before we talk about dis­man­tling the rest of the bour­geois sys­tem.

That doesn’t mean vio­lence or harm, that just means sidelin­ing them, con­vinc­ing their good-faith mem­bers to revoke mem­ber­ship, remem­ber­ing MDP for the pop­ulist class trai­tors they are, dis­man­tling their manip­u­la­tion, and mak­ing them utter­ly irrel­e­vant.