A family member just got in a motobike accident last week. Situation was so much messed up, having to suture a lot of wounds on the head and cast a broken wrist. This is gonna be a huge blow to us financially since my family has no insurance.
Those memes about US healthcare hits home because we dont have health insurance since dad quitted his old job years ago. I’ve practically been shafted since he got resigned a Japanese cement company after getting an unfavorable, insulting reassignment after faithfully serving for almost three decades, only to be rewarded like this. He had a burning hatred for Japanese work culture as a result, and little did he know, it planted the first seeds of radicalization towards being an actual communist from an immature who thinks the Soviet anthem is funny and coping with communist memes to cope with a toxic environment in a Christian school during junior high, with the developing of hatred toward foreign powers in general.
Duterte then became president and the actual change began. I went from naive lib who expected him to fullfill some wehraboo-esque anti-China fantasies to understanding why Duterte wants to work with China. And I saw the memes about American war crimes and the rise of the alt-right fascists there, and seeing the news about how the US is tattered in pieces and discovering more atrocities they committed as I studied history. I was already a baby leftist at that point who got misguided in a leftypol server crawling with groypers and femboys.
In short, I became a Marxist because I’m tierd of being fucked over in an illegally occupied puppet state. A lot of American kids think its edgy to be a Marxist, or became one because their gender identity got spat on by fascists. Find my bootstraps? You have to kill like its fucking Squid Game to get them bootstraps in US-occupied Philippines. Had I been born in China, I could have actually pursued my dreams there, I know I could get a job there to serve the Motherland rather than engaging in some Darwinian competition only to be sold like prostitutes to assholes for employers like fucking Qatar.
I’m in my 20s, out of school in the meantime because uni practically rejected me, recommend any ML orgs in the Philippines not affiliated with the CPP-NPA, preferably favorable to Moscow and Beijing. Also I’m not in Manila, I’m in the bumfuck of nowhere,… really needed to get out of the screen and actually join actual civic activity for once.
Also purging some the “National Democracy” literature because its pretty much not applicable in the modern factors. Filipino Maoists have been reduced into a joke and they’re pretty much the reason why the Left here can’t bloom. And they’re the reason why MLs here jumped on Duterte’s boat because his pro-China stance seems attractive to AES and easier to identify with them than with the Maoists. So basically joining the populist camp to make orthodox ML cool again
Thanks for the eye-opening read. I need to get access to better literature, my only literature is limited to Marx’s fundamentals, Soviet-era writings and Third Worldist stuff like the Green Book, some of Sankara’s work and some of Philippine “National Democracy” corpus of material, as well as some academic research papers feeding me info to make my own takes.
So yeah, kinda got my start with “Old Left” literature. And had to toss the Green Book since patsocs and shit
I just went out on that rant because Milo Stewart was the first thing that comes to my mind hearing about gender discourse on Tumblr. Don’t get me mistaken, I’m pretty progressive. I am supportive of LGBTQ rights, but I don’t want to debate on the politics of trans people because I’m not in a sufficient position to join the debate. My apologies.
Not to mention, everytime I tried explaining about China to them, Cold War propaganda sets in. They believe China is this cartoonishly oppressive hellhole they shpuld avoid like the plague.
They say there is no freedom of expression and assembly, and you cannot protest in China, but why the fuck a crowd of people angry at Evergrande swindling their hard-earned money took up to the streets, and Beijing didnt send the tanks unlike the fascist brats in Hong Kong throwing tantrums?
If the same situation happened in the US, like, say, J. P. Morgan swindling American workers of their hard-earned money they invested, the feds would send in the tanks.
Wait, is Duterte decent? I thought he was a fascist?
I feel what you said. Everyone thought Duterte is a fascist because far-right populists like groyper scum praised him as their dream strongman elected by the people. Duterte is what they wanted Trump to be. They fantasize a Duterte-like figure to dab on “Da Joo elitez” in AmeriKKKa.
When in reality, he’s more of a Stalin than Hitler. He’s more of a Maduro without the ruinous economic incompetence than Pinochet.
Well, my main concern is securing Duterte’s legacy. We dont have a clear cut candidate who would be basically his successor. Marcos Jr. is a beast of his own, being the son of the former dictator. Isko Moreno looks like he can keep Duterte’s line at first, turns out he’s a neoliberal parody. Leody de Guzman is basically an unmasked socialist, doubt he can be as tough as Duterte and has no realistic chance of winning. Though I must admit if Leody wins, pressure by the CIA and Western powers bullying him for being a socialist president of a US satellite might force him to be as tough as Duterte.
This is how fucked up our roster of presidential candidates are. We have to choose between Woke Pinochet aka Raytheon’s useful idiot, a neoliberal parody of Duterte who wants to keep the status quo and forcing Americanization instead of Filipino solutioms for Filipino problems, the son of a literal dictator groomed by the PDP-LABAN crown princess, and a more based version of Bernie Sanders minus the lib capitalism, but with almost zero chances of victory.
This is why the left-wing Duterte supporters camp are torn between openly socialist candidate Leody de Guzman and PDP-LABAN appartichik and former dictator’s son Bongbong Marcos.
Most of the more authsoc Duterte supporters went with Marcos as the pragmatic path, being able to continue the friendship with Beijing Duterte started.
Plot twist: Only read once and never opened again.