Tribute to a teacher, visionary, revolutionary — comrade Jose Maria Sison
Comrade Joma was a revolutionary, leading the way forward to the liberation of the Filipino people and the people of the world.
On criticism and creativity
1. Calls for creativity have emerged as responses to a criticism of the Left being “passé” and “dogmatic.”The command to be creative is being considered seriously for activist practice in response to this criticism, but what does this call achieve? JMS: It is a good policy for any anti-imperialist and anti-fascist formation to pay attention […]
Dialectical and Historical Materialism
The objective of studying dialectical and historical materialism is to provide the proletariat and the people with the materialist-scientific outlook in comprehending nature and society and with the materialist dialectical method in cognition or acquiring knowledge from such social practice as production, class struggle and scientific experiment.
On the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Mao Series Episode 4 Questions by Host Crisanto Kempendorff
Answers by Jose Maria Sison
On the Discussion of Semifeudalism in the Philippines
I appreciate highly that KATRIBU has done a great deal of work to deepen the awareness and understanding of the youth on the issues, plight, and struggles of the indigenous peoples , to organize and mobilize the youth to advocate IP rights and undertake solidarity actions for the struggles of the indigenous peoples and to generate financial, material, technical, and volunteer support for IP communities
On Practice and on Contradiction
Mao wrote On Practice in 1937 in Yenan soon after the Long March and delivered it in a series of lectures on Marxist philosophy. It clarifies its epistemology by explaining the interaction and wave-like advance of social practice and knowledge. It is one of Mao’s major philosophical works in which he made a major contribution to the development of dialectical materialism by elaborating on the unity of opposites in social practice.
Socialism: Utopian and scientific
As background, let me cite the fact that in the Communist Manifesto of 1848, Marx and Engels had already differentiated Scientific Socialism from Utopian Socialism of three kinds:
On Comrade Mao’s Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art
Questions by Edna Becher of Panday Sining Europa
On the People’s Democratic Revolution
The most important aim of the national democratic revolution is to achieve full national independence and people’s democracy
General view of Lenin’s theory on Modern Imperialism as indispensable integral part of his revolutionary legacy
The master work of Lenin in philosophy is Materialism and Empirio-Criticism which he wrote in 1909 to uphold the materialist-scientific outlook on objectively existing material reality and explain dialectical materialism as a mode of knowing and changing society and nature. He delved into how the general laws of contradiction operated in the particular laws of motion in particular forms of social and natural phenomena.