The Filipino People’s Democratic Revolution Led by the Proletariat
Because Philippine society is semicolonial and semifeudal, the Communist Party of the Philippines as the vanguard of the proletariat has adopted as general line or program the people’s democratic revolution with a socialist perspective. The socialist stage of the Philippine revolution can commence upon the basic completion of the people’s democratic revolution through the seizure of political power by the proletariat in a protracted people’s war.
The Revolutionary Movement In The Philippines Today
Philippine society persists as semicolonial and semifeudal. It is afflicted by foreign monopoly capitalism, domestic feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism. It is dominated chiefly by US imperialism, with the new imperialist power China trying to seize the West Philippine Sea. The basic exploiting classes are the comprador big bourgeoisie and the landlord class. The basic exploited classes are the proletariat and the peasantry. And the intermediate social strata are the middle bourgeoisie and the urban petty bourgeoisie.
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.
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:
In transition to the resurgence of the World Proletarian Revolution
I daresay that the current wave of mass protests signals the transition to a new era of unprecedented anti-imperialist and anti-fascist resistance by the peoples of the world