![]() ![]() Using the famous Duterte supporter ‘nanlaban’ analogy, ‘If a group of military personnel go to your barrio and start shooting your hens, force you to eat feces, or worse, start killing your family members and leaving firearms on their corpses. Revolt is usually done when the state forces themselves are committing atrocities, such as what is happening now in Mindanao. (e.g someone who cannot be swayed by the sweet words of capitalists.) Or maybe from a liberal perspective, someone who is willing to talk in peace, without any false promises. Reform needs a political leader who uses his/her political will to lift the masses and places the interests of the masses first, contrary to him/herself. Reform is usually done if the centralized government is willing to listen to the concerns of the masses. There are times when we can do reform, and there are times where we are supposed to revolt. If that makes sense at all, what I’m trying to say is. Some are drowning in debt, a lot are starving and overworked with little to no rewards. Tenant-landlord relations still exist in the basakan, and prices have become unfair for the peasant economy in favor for wealthier investors. Meanwhile, Indigenous peoples are driven out of their land to give way for foreign companies to exploit the country’s natural resources. ![]() The Philippine economy is driven mostly by imports, industries that exist in this country are usually processing firms for products that the Filipino masses couldn’t buy. Workers in industrialized areas owned by foreign investors and the Filipino elite are being paid with minimum wage and sometimes work in harsh conditions with little to no rewards. Atrocities and exploitation in the countryside are usually permitted by the centralized government in order to give way to the establishment of multinational corporations and other enterprises. (Although, I might also say that it was better than before since Filipinos get to participate in the market and government offices, devoid of racism). The Philippines today did not move-on from the atrocities of the past, particularly from the underprivileged. Liberate the lands from the oppressive friars and Guardia Civil, who were the causes of economic and political exploitation and abuses among the masses. ![]() The propagandist Jose Rizal’s arrest also incited revolution among the KKK (Kataastaasan, Kagalanggalangang Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan), to conduct attacks and offensives on the Spanish haciendas and forts. The absurd deaths of the “Gomburza” priests stirred up the masses to participate in revolutionary movements to overthrow the colonial government. This was met with outrage from the Spaniards (especially from the friars), thus gave them the decision to disallow Filipino representatives in the Spanish councils. They also proposed reform for Indios to be given the same rights as the Spaniards, and to have Filipino representatives at the Konsehos. Various propagandists such as the members of La Liga Filipina, began to write works criticizing the Spanish government, particularly the friars who were given most control in the 18th-19th Centuries. This national consciousness became the greatest weapon for independence in the Philippines, as it gave an abstract birth to the notion of a nation itself. Filipinos were already given representation due to wealth and privilege, that is until certain students and scholars developed a sense of national consciousness. That is, until the 18th and 19th Century, when Filipinos began to participate in enterprises and ventures. There was a great extent of corruption from the Spanish elite who ruled the lands, and Filipinos were treated like slaves. The 333 years was also the years of attempted revolts, in which all the bodies of revolutionaries were used as props for terrorism against the masses. Cultural practices from the pre-colonial era were prohibited and created the preference for Christianity. The 333 years of occupation was driven with forced-labor, different forms of exploitation, and terror upon the Filipino natives. The Spanish colonization of the Philippines left an ever-lasting scar in Philippine history. ![]()
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