Young Entrepreneur

 ENTREPRENEUR

Ladies and gentlemen,


Greetings of Solidarity and Internationalism…

We will not expect that this letter, an e-mail will be published in your magazine, the Entrepreneur because it contains information some people wouldn’t bother to discuss. Too revolutionary, so they say. As if the Earth’s rotation about its axis, if the revolution isn’t part of our day-to-day life. Nevertheless, we would like you to know that we support your organization, the goals, and the principles you want to convey and realize. We are one with YOU.

Small-scale industries are the basic components of an emerging economy, which try to uplift the livelihood of the people and their bare necessities. We believe that it is the PEOPLE who are the decisive factor in all socioeconomic endeavors and social developments. However, most of our compatriots have meager incomes and have no means to uplift themselves from poverty.

The Philippine Economy and Philippine Financial System do not support the very lifeblood of our society, the poor workers and peasants. We could only make a decisive forward leap if we could defeat and uproot the basic problems of the Philippine society, the government’s unfit leadership, and the strangulation of our economy by foreign capitalist interest from the feudal-capitalist patriarchal economic system. We can not forever, accommodate ourselves from this kind of socio-economic system. So, it is a historical decision.

For us to take off economically, we must struggle for the Agrarian-Industrial Revolution, the socialization of all arable and agricultural lands. The Philippine Financial System must reorient and redirect its financing from foreign transactions to domestic needs and enterprises to boost our local industries and entrepreneurs, specifically, the small-scale industries (to generate employment), people who are directly affected by the ebb and flow of national and global economic crisis. Likewise, Renewable Resources shall be the basic energy based on the Agrarian-Industrial Revolution (A.I.R.). These are the general visions that we have in mind.

Light and medium-scale enterprises will be born directly from the basic industries and entrepreneurs. Now from the light and medium industries, in the process, heavy industries will raise based on the concrete needs and requirements of the small enterprises, light and medium industries. (We can not maintain a sound socioeconomic system by establishing small-scale industries side by side with the establishment of modern machinery but after the need for it arises. This kind of it would only deplete our natural resources). Following this line, the agriculture sector could boost the production of all agricultural products to supply the goods and commodities needed by the small, light, and medium industries. Now, the research and development, the science and technology needed shall follow through from the general plan and course of the Agrarian-Industrial Revolution (AIR)…

Agriculture and Industry exist independently from each other, but interdependently complement one another, as if symbiotic relations exist just like ecology. In Nature, there is no such thing as a hierarchy of things, there only exists a relationship of matters that has life and ever-changing and interconnections of life and nature. What we are trying to say is this, we must create a social milieu, a socioeconomic sphere, a socio-cultural sphere, a scientific-technological sphere, socio-political sphere that rightly corresponds to the kind of society we want to make. Just like in a jigsaw puzzle, why? Because we can not change the superstructure of our society if the social relations will only continue to produce the kind of alienation and oppressive conditions that (exist) we have.

So in other words, the superstructure of our society must correspond to the social mode of production. The social mode of production has two related systems: the relations of production and the forces of production. Without the harmonization of these two related systems, you can not create a workable and flexible economic structure that attune to the basic needs of our people and society.

The relations of production pertains to the ownership of all the instruments of a production system, the modern industry, the inventions of modern technology appropriate to simplified productions, the vast privately-owned agricultural land, the financial and banking system, and all the capital incentive which are necessary for the whole economy to work efficiently. It answers the question, who owns the principal means of producing wealth?

The forces of production are all the resources Mother Nature has given to us, the workers and the peasants, the skilled laborers, the scientist-technologist, the think-tank of innovations, and all the wage earners in the modern capitalist society. These people are the ones who bring in the surplus capital necessary for continued reproduction. They are the army of surplus labor and many of them are unemployed. Without them, the cog and well of the modern capitalist mode of production would not work. It answers the question, who is the creator of social wealth? 

Why is it that we can not tap the intelligent human power that we have? 

Because they have to free social means of production from private ownership which supports and corresponds to the social relations created by the colonial, feudal-capitalist patriarchal relation of production. Until we change the mode of production from the capitalist privately-owned production system to a socialist mode of production, we can not change the abject conditions this socioeconomic system supports. At least you can ameliorate some social problems that need to be attended to. But for how long to sustain it, that’s the big question.

That is why we must create new conditions and institutions, and new social relationships necessary for the continuation, the development of which would support the right situations and conditions that would bring out a favorable atmosphere for socio-economic development. Unlike the present situation, it doesn’t. It seems that all roads to social development are against us.

No way the capitalist class of the world could amazing and perfectly mastered social production and development as long as the management of socializing productions is within the framework of a capitalist private mode of production. The capitalist mode of production cannot unleash the creative and powerful energy of the laboring masses for social creation. This is our historical indictment.

Then you would say, what will be our long-term goals and visions? That my friend I will leave for you as a question. Until we have a wide range of social discussions about the visions we want until we have traced out all the possibilities and honestly evaluate all angles and social realities, until then, the experience will only be the best weapon and teacher, and the lessons of it would tell us if we have been right or wrong.

We don’t represent the people. But at least, we share some of those visions and dreams…

Respectfully Yours,
ARIEL ERIC ROBEDIZO

Extricate Ourselves from Social Mysticism

Extricate Ourselves from Social Mysticism

Greetings of Solidarity and Internationalism…

The real transformation of the Philippine Society can be brought about by the conscious effort of the Filipino masses. Historically, our people have undergone various trials and errors just to correct the mistakes of our experience. 

Politically, our system has been modeled to that of the Western civilization, which in the final analysis has not been adapted to our condition and situation as an archipelagic country. The political parties have only served to entrench and cement the interest of the rich family in our society, the Oligarchs. Electoral processes are just a waste of time and resources of the people, what we get are only minimal concessions, unreal and illusory. Our friends and relatives cannot even be elected to assume leadership based on their skills and knowledge. We only postpone the imminent downfall of the ruling class by participating in such false exercises. Republicanism, democracy, dictatorship, parliamentary, and constitutionalism all forms of disguise overlordship, have proven nothing to organize the people and society the way we should want it to be. Why? Because all forms of government are the same, which has their corresponding style of domination and oppression.

Our conclusion is this, no matter how sincerely we want to organize and mobilize the people based on the hierarchical-bureaucratic system we would not succeed. It is a proven fact and no one can deny it. It has been proven by experience and has been written many times before in history books. The only way out is to depart radically from that form of subservience to any idolatrous symbolism, God, Satan, church, and government are just the extreme form of idolatry. Let us look within ourselves, inwardly and we would discover that freedom could be attained through self-discovery.

It’s a war of nerves. We have got used to it. We have almost perfected it. We are just buying our time for the ripe moment to take on the ruling class and overthrow them.

We are counting on you, from the support of the masses of the people particularly the bulk of the Revolutionary Proletarian Movement, ranging from the sector of the Banking and Finance for the direct seizure of the people’s wealth and money from the bureaucratic capitalist, financial oligarchy and the multinational monopolist to support all social developments, the Manufacturing and Agricultural sector for the control of production system for faster and efficient distribution of goods and commodities to any point of the archipelago and the socialization of all agricultural land for the benefit of the poor peasants, the Urban Poor for the direct participation to social reconstruction and social planning, the Tele-communication, TV and Radio Stations for the propagation of the people’s need and interest, the Transportation sector for effective delivery and freeway for the people, the Teacher sector for the reorientation of our educational system, the Individuals for voluntary mass-action, do-it-yourself and self-help.

We don’t have the blueprint for all these direct social activities however, we have faith in the people. Social Revolution is a mass undertaking therefore, no need for a hierarchical organizational structure. 

What we need is coordinated voluntary direct action from all the people concerned to control our national economy and industry with help from the different sectors of our society. From here, to that level of social consciousness and direct voluntary actions, we could go directly for the reorientation of our national and social life simply by announcing and broadcasting our intentions and goals. We are in favor of a Socialist Economic Order with Socialist Ecological considerations but, with conscious administrative intervention from the government machinery, the State. 

National Socialist Folk State shall be the pioneering instrument in promoting a balance Societal system. The State will be the form of leadership and its substance shall be the Racial Stock. National Socialist Folk State will promote the revolutionary chemistry of our society. It shall protect, serve, and defend the Nation, People, and Society. 

We don’t need to be an imperialist and “superpower” nation just to be “great.” What a difference it could make if we become a country of anarchists. Statist thinkers are afraid of free people. Let us create wonderful and amazing things for our country.

Again, this is not to suggest or to command you, that we know the ways and means for revolutionary social transformation, the people must participate in it. This is, just a public recommendation being submitted for scrutiny by the people for refinement and finishing touch. This letter can be pass-on for comments and suggestions to any individuals, groups, and organizations, who are sincere, honest, and straightforward in dealings with the seriousness, of the realities of our social life. But we should not depart or deviate from the general directions that we have mentioned above.

According to Nadia C.

1. Make politics relevant to our everyday experience of life again. The farther away from the object of our political concern, the less it will mean to us, the less real and pressing it will seem to us, and the more wearisome politics will be.

2. All political activity must be joyous and exciting in itself. You cannot escape from dreariness with more dreariness.

3. To accomplish those first two steps, entirely new political approaches must be created. The old ones are outdated and outmoded. Perhaps they were NEVER any good, and that’s why our world is the way it is now.

4. Enjoy yourselves…!!! There is never any excuse for being bored…or boring!

“Join us in making the “revolution” a game; a game played for the highest stakes of all, but a joyous, carefree game nonetheless…”

For Revolution, Socialism, Love, and Joy...