Category: Philippines
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The State after History
Workers ought not to be exclusively absorbed in these unavoidable guerilla fights incessantly springing up from the never ceasing encroachments of capital or changes of the market. They ought to understand that, with all the miseries it imposes upon them, the present system simultaneously engenders the material conditions and the social forms necessary for an…
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Bonifacio the Totem
Reflections against heroic idolatry “The social revolution […] cannot take its poetry from the past but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped away all superstition about the past. The former revolutions required recollections of past world history in order to smother their own content. The revolution […] must…
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The Catechesis of Semifeudalism
Vulgar economy actually does no more than interpret, systematise and defend in doctrinaire fashion the conceptions of the agents of bourgeois production who are entrapped in bourgeois production relations. It should not astonish us, then, that vulgar economy feels particularly at home in the estranged outward appearances of economic relations in which these prima facie…
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The Political Economy of Corruption
Preliminary notes on corruption and the peripheral-capitalist State; towards a critique of “Anti-Corruption” Metro Manila is drowning in shit and leptospirosis. Recent news, not at all old, believe it or not. A situationer In the recent weeks following sensational media stories and exposé of rampant corruption in flood control infrastructure financing, we have seen the…