CLASS ANALYSIS AND TACTICS
To know the class analysis of the
Philippine society determines the strategy and tactics of the Philippine
Revolution.
- Base on our class analysis of the Philippine
society, the motive forces or friends of the
Philippine Revolution are the proletariat, the peasantry, the petty
bourgeoisie and at certain times a
national bourgeoisie. These people compose the majority who are being oppressed and
exploited by U.S. imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism.
- On the other hand, the
targets or enemies of the Philippine Revolution are
U.S. imperialism and its local lackeys which are the comprador big
bourgeoisie. the landlord class and the bureaucrat capitalists. These compose an extremely small minority of the population.
They need to be overthrown in order to achieve national freedom and democracy.
- In order to destroy the enemies, we need to conduct
a nation war of liberation vs. the U.S. imperialism. That's why they concluded
a democratic revolution which is mainly peasant war, to
destroy feudal base of imperialist rule.
There can be no successful revolution without the correct
leadership of a definite class.
- It is the leading class in the Philippine
Revolution today.
- It is the most advanced productive and political
force in the Philippines and in the whole world.
- It is the standard-bearer of the universal theory
of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought, without which no genuine revolutionary
movement can arise in the Philippines in the present era.
Only the Filipino proletariat has become capable of fully
comprehending and embracing the patriotic and progressive aspirations of the
entire Filipino people. It is the class
in Philippine society that has dared to lead the people onto the road of
revolutionary armed struggle against their foreign and local oppressors and
exploiters. It is the class that has gained the profoundest experience and
lessons in the concrete practice of the Philippine Revolution. Proletariat
leads the present stage of people's democratic revolution and it will also lead
the subsequent stage of socialist revolution.
Communist Part of the
Philippines
- It is the most advanced embodiment and the
principal instrument of the revolutionary leadership of the Filipino
proletariat in fulfilling its historic mission.
- It is composed of the most advanced elements of
the proletariat and, therefore, it is the concentrated expression of the
ideological, political and organizational strength of the proletariat as a
leading class.
Without this revolutionary party, there can be no
revolutionary movement. It is responsible for applying correctly the universal
theory of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought on the concrete conditions of
Philippine society. Its practical leadership and policies, determine the course
of the revolutionary movement. Acting as the general staff of the Philippine
Revolution, the Party sees to it that correct strategy and tactics bring the
revolutionary cause forward.
Although the proletariat is relatively small in a
semicolonial and semifeudal society like that of the Philippines, the Communist
Party of the Philippines as its most advanced detachment goes deep among the
broad masses of the people and builds itself up as the invincible force at the
core of the entire revolutionary mass movement. The Party links firmly the
proletariat with the peasantry and also with other revolutionary classes and
groups in the Philippines. By providing proletarian leadership to the
peasantry, the Party can wield a strong people's army as its principal weapon
and can develop the basis for wielding another powerful weapon, the national
united front of all revolutionary classes and strata.
Peasantry
- It is the main force of the Philippine Revolution.
- It is the largest mass force in a semicolonial and
semifeudal country.
- Without its powerful support, the people's
democratic revolution can never succeed.
- Its problem cannot but be the main
problem of the people's democratic
revolution
- It is only by acting upon this problem that the
proletariat and its Party can arouse and mobilize the peasant
masses.
There is
no solution to the peasant problem but to wage arm struggle,
conduct agrarian revolution and build revolutionary base areas.
In the course of
carrying out the revolutionary struggle for land as a way of fulfilling the
main democratic content of the Philippine Revolution, the central task of the
entire national revolutionary movement which is to seize political power and
consolidate it is also carried out.
The main armed contingents of the Philippine Revolution can
be raised only by waging a peasant war.Thus, it is inevitable that the vast majority of the Red
fighters of the New People's Army can only come from the peasantry.
It would be erroneous for a Communist Party in a
semicolonial and semifeudal country to put the principal stress of its mass
work in the cities instead of in the countryside. To do so is to mislead itself
into either committing the "Left" opportunist error of trying to
seize power mainly on the basis of the mass strength of the proletariat in cities
without adequate support from the peasantry or the Right opportunist error of
relying indefinitely on parliamentary struggle and unprincipled compromises
with the imperialists and the ruling classes as the local revisionist renegades
are now trying to do.
It is with due respect to the uneven development of
Philippine society that the principal
stress should be put on revolutionary struggle in the
countryside and the secondary
stress on revolutionary struggle in the
cities. At all times, the revolutionary
struggle in the city and countryside should be well-coordinated. But we should
never miss the central fact that it is in the countryside where the weakest links of the political power of the enemy are to be found and
where the people's armed forces have the widest area for maneuver in eating up
the counterrevolutionary armed forces piece by piece and destroying them step
by step.
It is in the countryside where the enemy can be compelled to
spread his forces thinly and lured into areas where the initiative is
completely in our hands.Though in the beginning the enemy encircles us
strategically ten to one, we can in turn encircle him tactically ten to one. In
the long run, the tide of the war will be surely turned against him as his
actual forces dwindle and it becomes politically difficult to replenish them.
At all times, he will be compelled to deploy an exceedingly large military
force even only in the static defense of his cities, major camps and main lines
of communication and transport. In the long run his parasitic and passive
military forces will also become hopelessly involved in the factional struggles
of the reactionary classes.
In the countryside, we can develop several fighting fronts,
ranging in quality from guerrilla zones to base areas. In doing so, we should
always trust and rely on the masses because revolution is a mass undertaking.
We should always rely mainly on the poor peasants, the lower-middle peasants
and all sections of the proletariat and semiproletariat found in the
countryside. Furthermore, we should win over the middle peasants and neutralize
the rich peasants to isolate and destroy the main pillars of feudalism and all
other local tyrants.
In creating our base areas, we depend on a sound mass base,
a sound Party organization, a fairly strong Red army, a terrain favorable to
military operations and economic resources sufficient for sustenance.
We can turn the most backward areas in the countryside into
the most advanced political, military, economic and cultural bastions of the
revolution. We can create the armed independent regime in the countryside even
before defeating the enemy in the cities. Only on the basis of solid democratic
gains in the countryside can the revolution advance. Because of the uneven
development of Philippine society, the people's democratic revolution can
develop only in an uneven way. Thus, it would take a protracted people's war to
bring about a thoroughgoing revolution all over the
country.
BASIC TASKS OF THE PEOPLES REVOLUTION
The central task of the Philippine Revolution is to
overthrow US Imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism, the seizure of
political power and its consolidation. The purpose is to liberate the Filipino
nation from foreign oppression and from feudal oppression.
1. In the Political Field
The principle of Democratic centralism shall be the main
organizational principle of the People's Democratic Republic of the
Philippines. Revolutionary base should be must be develop in order to establish
the independent regime. The people's democratic government can be established
where the people have won under proletarian revolutionary leadership.
2. In the Military Field
The New People's army shall be the mainstay of the people's
democratic state system. It has now the
principal task of seizing political power consolidating it. It must
always serve the people and defend them from their enemies.All forms of the
people's armed forces must have a mass character and they must be led by the
proletariat and it's party and they are mainly from the ranks of the peasantry.
3. In the Economic Field
The principle of self-reliance must be implemented in
economic affairs even while our revolutionary forces are still creating the
rural base areas and guerrilla zones. We must engage in production and not
limit ourselves to the cash income and expense account based on contributions,
confiscations or war bonds. We must use our resources wisely by following
strictly the style of simple living and hard work.We must confiscate the
property of the imperialists, the exploiting classes and traitors to benefit
the proletarian and semiproletarian masses. The state shall run all nationalized
enterprises and all sources of raw materials and power. All enterprises which
have a monopolistic character shall be taken over.The lands of the landlords
shall be distributed at no cost to the peasants who have little or no land. The
principle of equalizing landownership shall be implemented.
4. In the Cultural Field
The Philippine Revolution cannot advance at all without the
general awakening of the broad masses of the people. The concept of peoples
democracy or national democracy of a new type must pervade the cultural
activities of the revolutionary mass movement.A revolutionary national culture
must be propagated in order to oppose imperialist oppression and uphold the
dignity and independence of the Filipino nation. It must repudiate the decadent
culture of colonialism, imperialism and neocolonialism. It must adopt certain
traditional and modern cultural forms and infuse these with content that
enhances the national-democratic revolution. It must link up with the socialist
and new-democratic cultures of other nations.A scientific culture must be
propagated in order to oppose the reactionary idealism dished out by
imperialism and feudalism and also the superstitions that still persist. The
theory of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought must be the leading core of this
scientific culture. It should serve as the guide for the practical movement of
the revolutionary masses as well as for the ideological remolding of
intellectuals.The revolutionary workers, peasants and fighters should be the
heroes of this mass culture.
5. In the Field of Foreign Relations
Direct relations with fraternal parties, with revolutionary
movements and with socialist countries like the Peoples Republic of China and
the Peoples Republic of Albania must be established. When the Peoples Democratic Republic of the Philippines
shall have been established, it shall open and maintain diplomatic and trade
relations with all countries which respect the sovereignty and territorial
integrity of the Filipino people and which engage in such relations for mutual
benefit. It shall abide by the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence. All
unequal treaties and arrangements with the international bourgeoisie led by
U.S. imperialism must be immediately abrogated.
PERSPECTIVE OF THE PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION
It has already been made clear that the Philippine
Revolution has two stages. The first stage is that of the peoples democratic
revolution. The second stage is that of the socialist revolution. The
Philippine Revolution, therefore, has a socialist perspective.
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