KARL MARX TUESDAYS

THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

(Philippine Chapter)

By: Mark Cua

Part I

THE BOURGEOISIE AND THE PROLETARIAT

"The bourgeoisie has through its exploitation of the world market given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country.

To the great Chagrin of reactionists, it has drawn from under the foot of industry the national ground which it stood. 

All old established National Industries have been destroyed or are daily being destroyed

They are dislodged by new industries whose introduction becomes life and death question for all civilized nations

By Industries that no longer work up indingnious raw materials

but raw materials drawn from the remotest zone. 

In place of Old wants satisfied by the production of the Country

We find new wants requiring for their satisfaction the products of distant lands and climes."

-Communist Manifesto

(Philippine Chapter)

Philippines was once a beautiful country gifted by Bathala with wonderful forests, clean lakes, clear rivers, and high mountains. But it was abused badly by the Bourgeoisie and the Capitalists by destroying them and placing on them thick square kilometers long asphalts. 

Under the Philippine Democratic System, these are abused and daily facing the unceasing hands of human consumption, destruction, and over development. This includes the Gift from Bathala himself that made a postcard out of the Philippines as a country. 

Farmlands turns to Subdivisions

Farmlands that once sufficed the stomachs of the Millions of Filipinos around the Philippines was replaced by Subdivisions and Urbanized Areas that stopped the consumption and production of food supply. Forests that once lavish with rare wild life and rich Filipino ethnicity was endangered and daily swallowed by Corporate greed over exploitation of Natural resources and Over development of the places. 

People build houses over places that once lavished by hectares and vast Bathala gifted green lands.Thus leading to the development and destruction of the eco system. As human population grows in the area, so is its consumption of natural resources and along with its growth the consumption of vast green lands for human consumption leading to the balding of forests, the destruction of rivers, lakes and Bathala gifted ecosystems. 

These subdivisions are not producers of food and they are just homes that can be houses for millions of the population. Farmlands during the time of our forefathers once fed millions of our fellow Filipinos during their times. 

Dwindling Natural Resources and National Green Areas

Capitalists and Greedy Corporations take advantage of the Money faced Democratic Government Officials to buy green lands and destroy the nature around it. Some abuse it by chopping lumber and making them raw materials, while some use the land for mining of certain minerals which leads to the destruction of hectares of forests that once covered the land.

If you can see and compare the ecosystem in the Philippines for last 100 years, in just 100 years from 95% it dwindled to only 5% of the total land area are only covered by green lands and forests. These forests, mountains, rivers, lakes, and seas that are one of the main factors on tourism industry and one of the ace cards of Philippines. 

Natural Resources are sacrificed in exchange for the fast pace of growth on the total population. The Philippine Democratic Government doesn't even value the gift it had received from the heavens instead they succumb to the needs and to the overpopulation of the country.  

Losing Touch Filipino Culture and Self Suffiency

In Chain reaction with the losing of Farmlands, and fast dwindling of the natural resources in the country, Colonial Mentality is far worst than we think it is. Many of the Filipinos take no value of their own but sees foreign goods as more of value than their own special mention to western brands and those coming from the west. 

Instead of promoting and pushing Filipino Products, Philippine Democratic Government is fooling itself and making a monkey out of itself by allowing itself to be fooled by the American imperialists and western nations. 

Many of the Filipinos doesn't know how to value their own products, their own identity, their own Self Suffiency, and their own sovereignity. Philippine Tourism is also dying because of the Societal Security which is far worse than the time of our forefathers and our fathers. Robberies and theft is rampant causing the downsizing of the Tourism Industry in the Old Philippines.