Rise of the Capitalist: Socialist Revolution

Socialism is the Political Ideology that fits the Philippine context, because it compliments with our tradition and aspirations. Basically socialism criticized by people who are liberated because of its characteristic. The idea is to create a united community to work and cooperate together for development. Socialism is either Social-Democracy or Marxism, and they both offer equality to the people by means of all property is community based. This ideology eliminates economic inequality and provides an opportunity to every individual to exercise their freedom without the concept of property. No individual can abuse the use of his/her property to disregard the interest of others. Eliminating hierarchy and balancing the economical status of all.  The primary concept of it is to share and cooperate, as a farmer they must harvest not to gain profit but to supply the demands of the community. All things are not profit based, instead to distribute or allocate the needs of the people appropriately. Equality will be served into any classes of people, no discrimination and isolation of poor and rich. All people have an equal economic status. It avoids disparity and goods and service will be offered at the market for all. It gives an equal identity to an individual unlike in liberalism; you have the privileges to exercise your freedom by means of your economical status or the property you own. The idea of liberating people is letting them to abuse their freedom and disregard the interest of other people.

The radical rise of the capitalist seems to be a political problem, in the Philippine setting, capitalist are dominant when it comes to political, social and most of all economical aspect. Imagine the profit gain by these animals, they have a lot profit than we imagine. Many have observed that rich people can only participate in local and national election. Where is the essence of democracy in the Philippines political system? Yes we have election, but these elections are the only thing that keeps them more powerful and that’s why it is institutionalized to protect the interest of higher-class. Majority of the Filipino are poor, and yet our government focuses on securing the private property of the higher-class. This setting shows the disparity, there is a rich and there is a poor. These capitalist engage in the world of politics so they can protect their property, the wealth of our country are concentrated to these animals. How can the poor be competitive economically if these people can’t share the wealth that they have? As I observed, majority of our politicians came from rich, elite, cacique and well-known families and they are only few who rule our government. This is a dynasty of rich people to our political system. The results of these are justice imbalances, mass poverty, inequality and lack of opportunity for the less-privilege class. These few can manipulate everything even justice, so that poor people are not properly serve just in violation with law. It create biases, opportunity will be distributed unequal. Poor people can’t always participate in every elections; it is because rich people can exclusively avail to participate in election. Inequality because the freedom is based on the property you own, less-privilege can’t exercise their freedom on what they will eat, on where they want to study or how they can support and sustain their families. Rich will be always on the top and as the time pass by they are getting more wealth and power, enough to rule us all and to protect their property for drawing it out on the circle of the elites and riches. Exercising freedom seems very hard to find in our setting, freedom is a multiple choice to pick from while the truth in our nation is freedom is exclusively for those who have wealth. The rich will become richer and the poor will become poorer if we tolerate and not act. We will be domain by rich people and they will not stop to extract all our wealth until they are the most powerful and wealthiest of all. Our setting is the people are used as materials and utilities to generate profit by the ruling class.

For me Socialism can provide a remedy to our grievances, we will attain equality without disregarding the sake of others. Socialism intends to offer equalization in terms of economical aspect. Basically economical status is a hindrance to exercise our freedom and worse we are being disregard because of poverty. We are being discriminated because of our economic status, so that socialism serves as a cure for our inequality. Clever capitalist won’t make any space if we first accept it. We are known for our good qualities as a nation, Filipino help each other that’s why socialism is fitted to our traditions and culture. The term “Balikatan” shows that we can really achieve progress and development through unity. Our tradition really fit the ideology of socialism, cooperation and sharing. No competence and taking advantage of each other, we will be a community that contributes his/her deeds not to gain profit but to satisfy the needs of our people. Democracy leads to other path, our conservativeness are fading because we are liberating ourselves too much. Equality will be served if we only entertain socialism, hierarchy will be eliminated. This is my deepest concern on why I choose this ideology, to reunite our aspiration for us to have a better nation. Our resources must be allocated for us and not for other countries. Development in a socialist nation would be rapid, because of the concept of cooperation and sharing. Our nation is in agony; we must learn and think on what’s the best for us. We will never be Socialist like China, Russia, Cuba or North Korea because we are a lot different from them; Filipinos have many good qualities to customize the idea or the traditional socialism. We will have a very unique type of socialism and equality will be observed.

Democracy is the road to Socialism, we are free to execute and form a revolution. Equality and freedom is gained through revolution, not in election. Revolution is the key to have equality, we must eliminate the present government and form a community based government. Eliminating private property and allocating the wealth of our nation to each and everyone equally. Because people own the nation not the government or riche people, the government is just an instrument to secure us from foreign nation. Revolution is the process on which our aspiration is combined together as one to set a community that will protect us from disparity and inequality. After a revolution, we must establish a government that is appropriate to our aspirations and desires. Transferring the wealth of the rich to the less-privilege for us to attain economical equality and to assure that there are no abuse of wealth to disregard the sake of other.

We must educate all our people to be conscious on this idea, for us to be able to know what’s for us and what’s not. Education is the key to accept this concept and to fight the ruling class by this ideology. The image being thrown to us will be shifted and the things that we presumed right will lift and ignite ourselves to form a revolution. If we are educated, we can question the unjust ruling and governing of these greedy animals. We will see that the government we dreamt and aspire can be experience in a Socialist setting. We will realize that Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks (Karl Marx) and eliminating the idea of nothing can have value without being an object of utility.