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What causes economic instability and what causes peso devaluation is not ideological struggle but the lack of it. Traditional corruption is unstoppable, some economist would agree to that. A decrease in the real interest rate, which causes an economic bust, is caused by an increase in government spending and decrease in taxes. Though people remit more and more taxes each year there is still a huge amount of government deficit. The big question now is where our taxes go? I’m sure the answer is already evident.
Communism is Sison
It’s comical when we refer to the middle class as the petty bourgeois. It sounds more like a pretty burger than what it means. The middle class or the petty bourgeois believe that Communism is Sison. This is why many had a bad impression on Communism because they had bad impressions on Sison. What we fail to recognize is the fact that Communism is not about Marx nor Mao, neither Sison. Communism is all about People. After all, it is the people’s general will that always matters in the end.
Proffers employment
Fr.Sonny Ramirez on a Sunday TV Mass last Sept. 22 talks about his aghast reaction whenever Businessmen tell the public that they are concern to give people employment. Fr.Ramirez accused these Businessmen as only going for the profit and not for the welfare of the people. Which is quite true. In Macroeconomics, there is what we call the Marginal Productivity of Labor, Businessmen acquire an additional Labor only for the reason that it makes the company more productive. Even In a simple Economic Model, it will tell you that the rate of people finding jobs is equal to the rate of people losing jobs, so much for the publicity of the Arroyo Administration of “Mas maraming trabaho sa pamilyang Pilipino”.
Communism works the other way around. Everyone has an equal part in the production. One good example is the so called Shenfang Village in China where there is a collective Agricultural setting. One of the agenda of CPP of the Guerrero period is the establishment of “Mutual aid teams and mutual labor exchange systems shall be created as the initial step towards higher forms of agricultural cooperation”.
Communism in Students
Students play an active part in Communism. Students could be Communists primarily by their exemplary virtues. As Alfredo Saulo puts it “A less glamorous but nonetheless effective form of student activism is involvement not in a bloody demonstrations but in social and community development.” Most students distinctively from the state university play an active part in the development of our community. Atenista’s, nonetheless have their immersion to rural areas to know more of rural folks’ lives and help them with the institutionalization of simple livelihood projects.
Communism is Love
As the more romantic Luis Taruc expounded the idea that “It is love that prompts a man to lay down his life for the sake of his loves ones- and those must include even the most unlovable of his fellowmen. Such love, emanating from God, is the most powerful driving force guiding man to moral behavior. True love is selfless; it is capable of surviving the limits of suffering and self-sacrifice.”
I now find myself in awe, wondering what reality is and what is not. It’s consoling knowing that not all that is branded evil is absolutely evil. As Arthur Schopenhouer puts it “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
What we perceived to be reality now may be absurdity later. Who knows, someday we might just have a Communist for a President.
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Since 2003 I've been an active contributor of Panorama. I am grateful for this online magazine for allowing individuals to be able to share their ideas and expression to other youth across the globe. Exchanges of ideas and aspirations leads to empowerment and spark of inspiration.
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christopher bernardo | Apr 15th, 2003
That was such a radical perception, I like the fact that you related COmmunism with Love. I agree with you when you quote Luis Taruc's
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