The Duterte propaganda machinery

The Duterte propaganda machinery, including the mercenary poll survey firms and troll armies, will have increasing difficulties making the Duterte regime look “popular” as the economy sinks, prices of food and other basic commodities rise, jobs disappear, OFW remittances drop further, foreign loans dwindle and military overspending further cuts down social services. The wrath of […]

Philippine economy is rapidly sinking and Duterte terror regime is isolated

The Philippine economy is rapidly sinking and the tyrannical Duterte regime is likewise being rapidly isolated and detested by the broad masses of the Filipino, not just because of the Covid-19 pandemic but because of the subservience to imperialist powers and the local exploiting classes of big compradors, landlords and bureaucrat capitalists, the incompetence, unbridled […]

Galvez is active general used by Duterte to rob the national treasury

Galvez is one of the retired and active generals who are being used by Duterte to rob the national treasury and who are thus being fed with money as share from his lion’s loot. Duterte has collaborated with Galvez in stealing public funds previously intended for peace negotiations and now for vaccines. The retired and […]

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:

Trotsky as counterrevolutionary

Trotsky was a glib orator and polemicist on momentary political issues but was shallow on fundamental questions of philosophy, political economy and social science