Aasim Sajjad Akhtar comes back on The Pakistan Experience to break down electoral politics and discuss what a Revolution will look like.

On this deep dive podcast, we discuss Voters, the Politics of Mainstream Parties, Digitization, Elite Status Quo, Uniting Dissenting Voices, Nationalization, Left vs Right Politics and Elections.

Aasim Sajjad Akhtar is a teacher, left wing politician and columnist based in Pakistan. Akhtar is associate professor of political economy at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan. He is deputy general secretary of Awami Workers Party.

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

2:00 Electoral Politics and Understanding Voters

12:37 How Progressives and the Left can impact Politics

19:17 Politics of Mainstream Parties in Pakistan

31:50 PTI Supporters and Digitization

38:50 What does a Revolution look like and Elite Status Quo

46:54 How to unite all these dissenting voices

1:04:30 What does a New System Look Like

1:09:00 Nationalization

1:16:00 Left vs Right Politics and Global Trends

1:29:00 Audience Questions