This is a critique on capitalism that's centuries old and brutal and is ruling our nations and societies everywhere. Unlike other works of Faiz this one is more straight-hitting. In these lines ان گنت صدیوں کے تاریک بہیمانہ طلسم ریشم و اطلس و کمخاب میں بنوائے ہوئے جا بہ جا بکتے ہوئے کوچہ و بازار میں جسم خاک میں لتھڑے ہوئے خون میں نہلائے ہوئے Faiz says - The lure of money and riches that casts its magical spell over us stomps over us the people and their existence, making them sell their bodies i

The thing that bothers me the most about criticism of capitalism coming from socialist and marxist types, is that they don't even seem to understand what capitalism is. All of these government programs, the misallocation of resources, the bailouts, the protections... that's all socialism! Government creates all these problems and then the left points and says "See, we can't trust capitalism." What they don't understand is that if we actually had truly free markets, these problems would be solved