Imperialism
The final or monopoly stage of capitalism, as defined by Lenin
What is imperialism?
This facilitated the colonial transfer of the Philippines from Spain to the U.S.
The Spanish American War of 1898
The principal forces of production for feudalism.
Who are the peasants?
The oldest and most reliable defender of the landlord class.
What is the Catholic Church?
The social basis of fascism, overseen by the caretakers of the reactionary state.
What is bureaucrat capitalism?
The result of the symbiotic relationship between U.S. imperialism and feudalism.
What is semi-colonialism and semi-feudalism?
This was granted to the Philippines in the 1930s.
What is sham independence from the U.S.?
Basic aspects of the feudal relations between the parasitic landlord class and the productive peasantry.
What is: the possession of vast areas of cultivable land by a few landlords who themselves do not till the land and who compel a big number of tenants to do the tilling; the extortion of exorbitant land rent which leaves peasants impoverished; feudal practices such as usury, compulsory menial service and various forms of tribute.
A major feudal device that many landlords use to increase their crop share and also to acquire more lands.
What is usury?
This binds together the two reactionary parties of the puppet government.
Bonus: name the parties.
What is bureaucrat capitalist servitude to U.S. imperialism and to the local exploiting classes and their pursuit of private wealth?
What is the Nacionalista Party and the Liberal Party?
One of the five basic features of monopoly capitalism, as defined by Lenin.
What is:
1) the concentration of production and capital has developed to such a high stage that it has created monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life
2) the merging of bank capital with industrial capital, and the creation on the basis of this “finance capital,” of a financial oligarchy
3) the export of capital as distinguished from the export of commodities acquires exceptional importance
4) the formation of international monopoly capitalist combines which share the world among themselves
5) the territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers is completed.
In explaining why the Long March was a victory in 1935, he said, "a Marxist should see the whole as well as the parts."
Who was Mao?
The two major steps taken by the Spanish colonialists to spread feudalism across the Philippines.
What is:
1) the assignment of encomiendas as a royal grant, a reward for service or loyalty to the Spanish crown and 2) the compulsory cultivation of certain crops for export starting during the latter part of the 18th century.
When it seized colonial power from Spain, the U.S. maintained feudalism in the Philippines for this reason.
What is exploitative resource extraction? The U.S. felt it was necessary to maintain and enhance the existing system of feudalism to provide itself continuously with such raw materials as sugar, hemp, coconut and other agricultural products.
An integral part of semicolonial and semifeudal society for the bureaucrat capitalists.
What is graft and corruption? The bureaucrat capitalists get bribe money on the adoption of laws, executive orders and court decisions. In every contract, concession, franchise or license there is a certain amount of money that is used to line the pockets of the bureaucrat capitalists.
The launching grounds for aggression against Asian peoples, occupied by thousands of Americans.
Bonus: passed into law by this colonial agreement.
What are U.S. military bases?
What is the U.S.-R.P. Military Bases Agreement?
The U.S. maintains the vicious cycle of "free trade" with the Philippines in these ways.
What is Philippine dependence on colonial trade? American imperialists facilitate the export of raw materials to the U.S. and the import of finished commodities from the U.S. to the PH, which perpetuates the colonial and agrarian character of the Philippine economy.
A clever method of profit remittance by overseas U.S. firms is the purchase of commodities and services from their mother or sister companies in the United States at an overprice. U.S. firms engaged in export and re-export business in the Philippines underprice their goods only to get the real prices and the real profits abroad.
The large-scale cultivation of commercial crops started this exploitative system, which still exists today, and introduced agricultural specialization.
What is the hacienda system?
What is resettlement, landgrabbing, land retention limits and bogus expropriation?
Sources of graft and corruption.
What are crop loans, relief goods, war surplus goods, reconstruction funds, Chinese immigration quota, import controls, price controls, dollar allocations, rural banks, fake cooperatives, Japanese war reparations, deportation threats, alien naturalization, logging and mining concessions, pasture leases, stock exchange manipulations, government loans and subscriptions to private corporations, congressional allowances, calamity and contingency funds, barrio improvement funds, subsidies and so on and so forth.
The U.S. maintains monopoly control of the Philippines, keeping the country a semi-colony, in these ways.
What are unequal treaties and arrangements? The U.S. has strategically subordinated the PH peso to the U.S. dollar.
What is U.S. control of the Philippine banking system? U.S. imperialists own the largest commercial banks, insurance companies and other financing institutions in the Philippines.
These measures include laws involving land titles, disposition of public lands, resettlement, “expropriation” of large estates, “fair” crop distribution credit and “anti-usury” and “just wage” for farm workers.
What are sham land reforms?
The U.S. uses these measures to suppress the revolutionary mass movement of the peasantry in the countryside and to prevent agrarian revolution.
What is the U.S. counterinsurgency program? Components of this program of counterinsurgency are the sham land reform measures, “civic action,” reformist organizations and murder gangs like the “Monkees,” the Barrio Self-Defense Units (BSDU), the “provincial strike forces” and “special forces.”