On postmodernism and identity politics
Postmodernism arose directly from a chain of subjectivist idealist trends of thought, such as existentialism as articulated by Jean Paul Sartre in the years after World War II and the structuralism inspired by Ferdinand de Saussure and followed by Louis Althusser and others.
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.
Hinggil sa malapyudalismo
JMS: Mali si Popoy Lagman at mga sumusunod sa kanya na ipalagay na industriyal na kapitalista na ang Pilipinas para salungatin ang katangian ng lipunan ng Pilipinas bilang malakolonyal at malapyudal at lumihis sa pangkalahatang programa ng demokratikong rebolusyon ng bayan sa pamamagitan ng estratehikong linya ng matagalang digmang bayan at itaguyod ang insureksyonismo sa […]
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:
Critique of the Trotskyite attacks on the CPP and the Philippine revolution
My attention to Joseph Scalice was called recently by a Filipino artist friend, Max Santiago, who complained that his art work had been stolen by Scalice for a malicious purpose