KARL MARX TUESDAYS

THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

(PHILIPPINE CHAPTER)

By: Mark Cua

Part I 

Bourgeiouisie and the Proleratiat

"The Bourgeiousie has created more massive and more colossal productive forces

than have all the proceeding generations together. 

Subjection of Nature's Forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and 

Agriculture, steam navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents

for cultivation, canalization of rivers, 

Whole Population conjured out of the ground."

-Communist Manifesto

(Philippine Chapter)

If your Observant of the things around you can see what going on around the Philippines especially with Blessings from Bathala himself. In 1900s, Philippines was once covered by 95% lush green forests, clean rivers, wonderful scenery of Volcanoes surrounded by nature itself, and others. But if you can see it is barely the Philippines you see in the old photographs. 

This is because Philippine Islands are now populated in exchange for that huge population is the abuse of forests, rivers, and others. Statistics today is that only 5% or less of the Philippine Archipelago are the remaining covered land with lush green. The rest are either built by illegal settlers with shanties, or local Democratic Government consumed them for structures and other purposes including political practicing of their Political dynasty. 

Some are abused by allowing Mining into the said area causing the total destruction of the said River, plain, and mountains. 

You can see some are used by corporation as dumping sites for their toxic chemicals especially those belonging to the Capitalists owners. Before the advent of World War II, People burn down forests called Kaingin which caused destruction in the Natural environment. The Phases are these:

Lush Green to Farms

Farms to Towns

Towns to Cities 

Cities to Megacities

This is the never ceasing cycle of the Philippine Democratic Government operating and abusing our gifts from Bathala himself. We never denied Philippines is a gifted country especially with Natural Resources. But abusing it means it is being eaten alive and the vastness of these wondeful gifts of nature is getting smaller and smaller each day especially with the corruption of the Philippine Demcoratic Government towards mining activities, deforestation activities, and others.