The Revolutionary Classes
The makers of history
Who are the Masses?
The basic character of Philippine Society
What is semi-colonial and semi-feudal?
The text "PSR" refers to political power coming from the barrel of this.
What is a gun?
The new culture to be propagated must have these three characteristics.
What is national, scientific, and mass?
The primary struggle
What is Armed Struggle?
The peasantry, fisherfolk, students, workers, some sections of the national bourgeois and petit bourgeois...
US Imperialism
Feudalism
Bureaucratic Capitalism
What are the 3 basic problems?
The people must take up ____ struggle and _____ struggle to smash the 3 basic problem
What is Legal and Armed?
The central program of the revolution including points such as "promote a national and progressive people's culture", "advance the revolutionary emancipation of women in all spheres", and "terminate all unequal relationships with the US and other foreign entities."
What is the 12 points of the National Democratic Front program?
The amount of time that the protracted people's war has been ongoing in the PH.
What is since 1969 (56 years)?
The difference between the old type and the new type
What is the shift of class leadership from bourgeoisie to proletarian?
The daily number of people that are left the PH in 2024 as part of the labor export policy...
What is 30,000?
The military that serves the people and defends the country from its enemies
What is the NPA?
Even while disagreeing with their beliefs, the revolution can form a united front with these people in the political field.
Who are idealists and religious people?
The amount of time arms have been utilized against the PH people.
What is over 400 years (1565...)?
The most important instrument for the defense of the ruling class (or in other words: the instrument oppressing the revolutionary classes.)
What is the reactionary state?
Due to the semi-colonial and semi-feudal character of the PH, the goal of the revolution has these characteristics.
What is National and Democratic Revolution?
National: to assert national sovereignty, win genuine independence against US imperialism.
Democratic: upholding the democratic rights of the majority, the broad masses (i.e the peasants' struggle for land against feudalism.)
The antithesis (or solution) to the problems of Feudalism and Colonialism
What is National Democracy and Socialism?
These local governing bodies in barrios and factories are considered the embryo of the new political power.
What are revolutionary committees?
The ruling class (the big landlords, the capitalist politicians, and the imperialist compradors) will not give up their control of production (land, tools/factories, culture, housing etc.) peacefully as proven over and over by history.
Armed struggle is the only route to national liberation because of this?
The economic principle that must be implemented, emphasizing domestic production and planned use of resources.
What are Self-Reliance and Socialism?
Before an economic reform is undertaken, the movement must ensure there are enough of these people and revolutionary organizations to manage the adjustment of interests.
What are Cadres (or Mass Activists.)?
The 3 important weapons for the revolutionary movement
What are the CPP, the NPA, and the NDF?
1. Mutual respect for each other’s territorial integrity and sovereignty
2. Mutual non-aggression
3. Mutual non-interference in each other’s internal affairs.
4. Equality and mutual benefit.
5. Peaceful co-existence.
What are the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence?
The geographic location where the primary struggle is taking place.
Where is the countryside?