UMNO- A Party of the Merry-Gang and the Lumpenproletariat

It looks that way. UMNO is degenerating into a party for miscreants and ill-willed people. The good UMNO members can protest all they want. If they don’t assert themselves, they will just be cannon fodder for the Finance and Political aristocracy. The UMNO leaders- the Merry Gang,  are aware of the psyche of the lumpenproletariat.

The French call these people la boheme. These are the people who serve as willing underlings for the finance and political aristocracy. Misguided pekida people, right wingers, trouble makers. UMNO is fast becoming a party made up of lumpenproletarat- that fraction of people who have lost any sense of hope. They serve the purpose of the political aristocracy headed by Emperor Najib.

The lumpenproletriat and the rent-seeker share a similarity- each has no role in productive activity. The rent-seeker earns money from his rent, i.e. ownership of licenses, APs, monopolies etc. they don’t produce anything. The lumpenproletariat just earn anything given.

Who are the lumpenproletariat? Lumpenproletariat is a term to describe that layer of society that is unlikely to ever achieve class consciousness and difficult to become socially useful. It comes from the German term Lumpenproletarier, a word literally meaning "miscreant" as well as "rag".

How do we actually identify them? The lumpenproletariat includes roués or rakes with dubious means of subsistence and of dubious origin. They include the ruined and adventurous offshoots of the bourgeoisie, vagabonds, discharged and listless soldiers( like those who did the bare-butt dance at Ambiga’s house), discharged jailbirds, swindlers, mountebanks, pickpockets, tricksters, gamblers, maquereaux/pimps, — in short, the whole indefinite, disintegrated mass, thrown hither and thither by the political and finance aristocracy. The French as I said call them la bohème.

What useful role do these people play? The lumpenproletariat as a "class fraction" serves as political power base for people like Reezal Merican, Musa Sheikh Fadzir, Noh Omar, people with Pekida-mentality. These are friends to people like Zahid Hamidi. People like Reezal Merican, Musa S Fadzir and eventually Najib himself resort to the 'lumpenproletariat' as an independent base of power, while always advancing the material interests of the finance aristocracy. These are the type of people who will kick camping students, violate and assault people and intimidate kangkung protesters by invoking the May 13 infamy.  

As a fraction of the Malays, they stand isolated and do not represent the Malays.

Because UMNO is a party for the lumpenproletriats and the finance and political aristocracy, it is the enemy.

I have just come back from Raub. People are angry. I tell these people, direct your anger at the right target. Aim at the government.

I tell my voters- we are not enemies to each other. We don’t kill each other. Our enemy is the same. Our enemy is government’s incompetence. Our enemy is corruption. Our enemy is the leadership bent on setting us off against one another. Our enemy is bigotry and extremism in any form, by any group or race.

The enemy to the Malays is the government of, by and for the top 20% Malays. Its current chief spokesman is PM Najib. Its windbags are people like Ahmad Maslan. These people are the least bothered about the rising cost of living. That stupid balding Malay- Arab in the name of Syed Hamid Albar was reported as saying bus fares increase because parents want them to.

PM Najib can come out with any rationalisations he wants about his kangkung reference. His defence of his faux pas is irrelevant against the sea of anger and enrage. No one, more so the people can be forced to apologise for his insensitivity and stupidity.

Can a kilo of rubber buy a kilo of sugar? The licensed rubber buyer buys rubber from the tapper at RM2.80 per kilo. The rubber tapper shares 50/50 with the landowner. He gets RM1.40. Can RM1.40 buy a kilo of sugar? How many kilos can he tap in a month?

While the price of kangkung is at RM2.50 per kilo in Raub, his RM1.40 per kilo rubber can’t still buy a kilo of kangkung. While kangkung is indeed still cheaper, does he eat only kangkung? What about rice, the condiments that go into it, fish and other morsels?

His children go to school. The-tarik costs RM1.20. A piece of kueh is now 30sen. A plate of nasi lemak? Can the rubber tapper earn enough to give his children RM3 each per day? The electricity bill for the PM’s official residence in 2012 was RM6100/day. His water bill was RM850/day. So, tell me, why should the people heap praise on Najib? If PM Najib needs his quick fix, he only needs to go back to Pekan to get his doze of self- aggrandization.

Najib has no basis to be surprised when people mocked and parodied him on his reference to kankung. No, people don’t ridicule and shame the leader of this country. People ridicule and shame him for his insensitivity and stupidity. The rubber tapper is incensed. The price of rubber in Thailand is RM3.40 per kilo while in ‘poor’ Indonesia the homeland of the pendatang tanpa izin, is RM3.70 per kilo? How come the price of rubber in Malaysia, which quality is reputed to be the best in the world, is RM2.80 per kilo?

So, why should the Malays get paranoid at all when Najib got parodied? The mamaks in Penang want to be more Malays than Malay and more assertive than assertion itself. The Malays should realise that UMNO does equal the Malays. UMNO ≠ Malays. The Malays are bigger than UMNO. Malays are a race, while UMNO is just one political party. For a while, it did give the Malays the most credible avenue to further their political interests. Perhaps even viewed as The Voice of Malays. But the halcyon days are over. UMNO is discredited and Najib deserves to be ridiculed and parodied.

UMNO people should know by now, words like papa kedana, bangsat, haramjadah come naturally to Emperor Najib. What is kangkung? An infinitesimal and irrelevant term.

The fact is, Najib and UMNO do not represent the Malays. Malays must now get used to the idea, that Malays as a race is bigger than UMNO. UMNO is just a political party presented as a choice among several. Najib has shown that he is incompetent and a bloody hypocrite.

Malays in Penang are being manipulated by a bunch of mamak political bozos. Why don’t Reezal Merican, Musa Sheikh Fadzir and others of their ilk, represent the mamaks in KIMMA? Why should these people bring their brand of political gansterism into the Malay psyche? And why should the otherwise cool and collected true Malays willingly submit to these bozos? Do they get paid by these rich artificially grafted Malays?

I have only one explanation. The subscribers and adherents to this kind of short-fused political method are the Malay lumpenproletariats- the directionless poor and the side-lined, the day labourers, the UMNO storm troopers and layabouts, vagabonds, all sorts of miscreants. La bohemie as the French call them. The majority of Malays spurn the putsch-style politics of desperate UMNO politicians. They might as well join PERKASA.

To equate Malays with UMNO is to invite ill repute. All the vices and wrongdoings committed by UMNO leader and the governmental machinery build on UMNO values will be borne by the shoulders of Malays. Why should we? Why should we be readily identified with incompetence, racial and religious bigotry, corruption, abuse of power, megalomaniac inclinations? We Malays as a race are bigger than UMNO. Why should we stand in harm’s way to defend a hypocrite and wasteful PM? Why should the Malays be weighted down by UMNO’s negativities? As the Malay folksong says- biarkan silunchai terjung dengan labu labu nya. biarkan, biarkan.

As Malays, for once, why not be fair on ourselves? Let’s not be willing and pliant participants to the UMNO game.