The Reds and the new proletarian era

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte questioned the sincerity of the communist leadership in pursuing peace. The offensives made by the Reds against government troops in the countryside is a manifestation of disorientation. Who is being followed by the New People’s Army?

Are Sison and Jalandoni calling the shots for the field commanders? Is it possible that the local leaders are giving direct orders to fighters? Social analysts believe that the peace talks between the government and the communist rebels are always aborted because the top leaders of the Reds do not believe in the fragmented solutions of government in our socio-economic-political problems. The top leaders of the Reds in our country still believe in “The Communist Manifesto” of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The Reds still adhere to the intellectual development of the working class. The “true-blooded Reds” are preparing the way for a more complete insight into the true conditions for working class emancipation. A communist believes in the necessity of total social change. When I was a student leader in my younger years (Marcos era), I also believed (being a son of the sacada) that emancipation of the workers must be the act of the working class itself.

I was so attentive in the history of class struggles, contests between exploiting and exploited, ruling and oppressed classes. For the youth of the Marcos era, a stage that has been reached where the exploited and oppressed class – the proletariat – cannot attain its emancipation from the sway of exploiting and ruling class – the bourgeoisie – without, at the same time, and one for all, emancipating society at large from all exploitation, oppression, class distinction, and class struggles.

This is the belief of the Reds based on the “The Communist Manifesto” of Marx and Engels. I doubt if our Social Studies teachers have provided their students a view on this. Never heard? Bourgeoisie refers to the class of modern capi-