Author's Introduction

Philippine Society and Revolution is an attempt to present, in a comprehensive way from the standpoint of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought:

• the main strands of Philippine history,
• the basic problem of the Filipino people,
• the prevailing social structure and the strategy and tactics,
• and class logic of the revolutionary solution — which is the people’s democratic revolution.

This book serves to explain why the Communist Party of the Philippines has been reestablished to arouse and mobilize the broad masses of the people, chiefly the oppressed and exploited workers and peasants, against U.S. imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism now regnant in the present semicolonial and semifeudal society.

Philippine Society and Revolution can be used as a primer and can be studied in three consecutive or separate days by those interested in knowing the truth about the Philippines and in fighting for the genuine national and democratic interests of the entire Filipino people. The author offers this book as a starting point for every patriot in the land to make further class analysis and social investigation as the basis for concrete and sustained revolutionary action.