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 […]
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:
COMMENT BY PROF. JOSE MARIA SISON: DUTERTE IS MAKING THE PHILIPPINES HIS POLICE STATE
For sure, the power of the police to issue subpoena will become another kind of racket to increase the unofficial income of the police officers. It will be used to intimidate the critics and opponents of the regime and to facilitate extortions and murders as in Oplan Tokhang.