Meanwhile, photos below, some of the known student
activists in UP Diliman in the early to mid-80s (the late Ferdinand Marcos was still the President) that I can remember. top to
borrom, left to right:
Raffy Aquino and Lean Alejandro; Fidel Nemenzo, David Celdran and Sarge Colambo; Noe Pangilinan and Malou Mangahas. The last two were former editor in chief of the Philippine Collegian, the student paper in UP Diliman.
Raffy Aquino and Lean Alejandro; Fidel Nemenzo, David Celdran and Sarge Colambo; Noe Pangilinan and Malou Mangahas. The last two were former editor in chief of the Philippine Collegian, the student paper in UP Diliman.
This is four pages long including the photos, enjoy.
27 years ago, in 1986, a year before I finally left
Diliman, in an article published in the Collegian shortly after that historic
February --
"An apparent component of a progressive counter-culture is intellectual ferment at the classroom level. A perennial criticism hurled at the leadership of the student movement is its neglect of the classrooms as arenas of struggle. The criticism presupposes that should committed students religiously attend their classes, they will be able to competently defend, assert, and convince their classmates and teachers of the superiority of their ideas. The presupposition is not always a valid one. This underscores the need for the “intellectualization” of the student movement as a precondition for a progressive counter-culture at the grassroots level. The movement must engage in a tremendous amount of theoretical work, technical study, and social research. A general knowledge of what the progressive current stands for will no longer suffice. This knowledge will have to be broken down into its component parts and expressed in precise and concrete language. The student movement must systematically forge linkages with progressive sections of the faculty, technocracy, the professional sector, and the rest of the intelligentsia, and thereafter, exploit these linkages to “intellectualize” itself by further amassing and creating progressive knowledge."
Wala na yatang saysay ang mga hangaring ganito.
"An apparent component of a progressive counter-culture is intellectual ferment at the classroom level. A perennial criticism hurled at the leadership of the student movement is its neglect of the classrooms as arenas of struggle. The criticism presupposes that should committed students religiously attend their classes, they will be able to competently defend, assert, and convince their classmates and teachers of the superiority of their ideas. The presupposition is not always a valid one. This underscores the need for the “intellectualization” of the student movement as a precondition for a progressive counter-culture at the grassroots level. The movement must engage in a tremendous amount of theoretical work, technical study, and social research. A general knowledge of what the progressive current stands for will no longer suffice. This knowledge will have to be broken down into its component parts and expressed in precise and concrete language. The student movement must systematically forge linkages with progressive sections of the faculty, technocracy, the professional sector, and the rest of the intelligentsia, and thereafter, exploit these linkages to “intellectualize” itself by further amassing and creating progressive knowledge."
Wala na yatang saysay ang mga hangaring ganito.
Louie
Checa Montemar meron pa naman... kasi mas lumalabas na nga sa
iba't ibang porma ang social concern at sociological imagination, at lalong
wala namang monopolyo ang mga "tibak" na talaga sa dalumat ng
"relevance".
Nonoy
Oplas Raffy, if student activists will click to that harsh
intellectualization of the movement, none will become left-leaning. If you talk
about more personal responsibility (they cannot even be responsible in their
studies and regularly flunk), they will be drawn to desist and dislike more
government responsibility. The main reason why such activism remains noisy is
because they dislike harsh intellectualization but only stupidization of old
slogans and advocacies. Sige, debate na.
Raffy
Aquino Precisely the point Louie. Progressive
thinking still ascends in the Philippines, perhaps owing to the empowering
effects of information technology, perhaps owing to the courageous efforts of a
few valiant radical scholars, but perhaps not due to any intervention, much
less leadership, purposely exerted by any major Philippine left formation. The
tragedy is that the left has long held itself out as the most conscious
element, the vanguard of a new knowledge - but it was perhaps too indolent or
too preoccupied to develop the smarts needed to support its own hype. And so
even at the level of perception, "relevance" has ceased to be
associated with the "tibak." Precisely the point.
Raffy
Aquino To my friends in the left, Nonoy Oplas says
left activism, by definition, cannot be reconciled with authentic
intellectualization. Challenge issued, gauntlet thrown down.
Nonoy
Oplas And swords unsheathed Left activism or more
specifically socialist movement is far out from being intellectually
innovative. Why? Things should be socialized always -- education, healthcare,
housing, pension, transpo, agri, etc. Including your own pockets, savings, they
should be socialized. Diversity and inequality, spontaneity and innovation,
should be restricted if not controlled whenever possible. Things should be
harmonized, standardized, uniformized, monotonized, in order to prevent
inequality, massive and scary inequality.
Louie
Checa Montemar Noy, tagay pa.
Nonoy
Oplas Louie, si Raffy nakainom na. Nangangarap magkaroon ng mga
unique car brands like BMW 1970S era yata. Many people have nothing to eat, and
some people are dreaming of owning those expensive cars with expensive
maintenance
Raffy
Aquino Because I've been taught that an appreciation for the finer
things is a first principle of socialism. Bwaha!!
Nonoy
Oplas or principle of individualism, not forced collectivism,
hihihi.
That is why individualism -- individual freedom, individual responsibility, individual accountability for his/her action and inaction -- is important. Once you homogenize, uniformize, monotonize individuals, their creativity and spontaneity in order to prevent social inequality, stupidity in society is magnified.
That is why individualism -- individual freedom, individual responsibility, individual accountability for his/her action and inaction -- is important. Once you homogenize, uniformize, monotonize individuals, their creativity and spontaneity in order to prevent social inequality, stupidity in society is magnified.
Raffy
Aquino The one thing I will grant Nonoy is this - capitlaism
builds better cars!!!!!!!
Nonoy
Oplas and cell phones, laptops, flat tv, motorcycles, bicycles,
airplanes, buses, boats, slkyscrapers, even rotary pins Socialism is
good at creating dictatorship and dictators. That is why many activist flunkers
are so enamored with socialism. They can be dictators and dictate how people
should run their own lives even if they are intellectually mediocre and could
not even manage their own lives properly.
Louie
Checa Montemar mabuhay ang sosyalismo. sa puso ng tao.
sa gawa, di lang sa salita.
Nonoy
Oplas Facebook, youtube, google, yahoo, twitter, instagram, etc,
all products of socialism and dictatorship, yehey!
Louie
Checa Montemar ah yes, they are. you just gotta get out of YOUR
ideas of what soc is all about.
Nonoy
Oplas Right, people should recognize hypocrisy when it shows. LIke
those who lambast capitalism to high heavens then turn around and use and hug
all products of capitalism
Louie
Checa Montemar capitalism needs socialists. capitalism is the best
producer of hypocrites, by the way.
Nonoy
Oplas Capitalism hurts ego. Some of its products are so useful and
very often, almost free -- like fb and youtube -- and yet it also attracts
hatred from among those who use its products.
Louie
Checa Montemar Capitalism does not hurt. People hurt people. let's
not reify too much.
Nonoy
Oplas "Capitalism does not hurt". That's socialist
revisionism Louie. Socialists want to overthrow capitalism and the profit
system because they deeply believe that the profit system is hurting and
exploiting workers. So socialists invented a cousin of socialism -- statism,
worship of the state and state bureaucrats as the one who can solve all
problems of mankind, real or imaginary.
Louie
Checa Montemar as i put it earlier, you gotta get out of your box
for socialism. call it revisionism, call it whatever. only one word i won't
ever accept as a label for myself: Dictator. i'm too sophisticated for
that.
Nonoy
Oplas Bato bato sa langit, may tinamaaan ba? hehe. No one in
particular but socialism is dictatorship, period. To force everyone to be
equal, to socialize one's pockets and savings so that even the lazy and
irresponsible will be subsidized, is pure dictators...See More
Louie
Checa Montemar "socialism is dictatorship." now that is
really warping things. anyway, wala namang tinamaan. just need to point out
some impt propositions. reason and rationality are overrated concepts.
goodnight my friend. gotta go back to being a minion of capitalism.
Nonoy
Oplas Raffy, you're still awake, your turn to comment on
this
"The characteristic feature of modern capitalism is mass production of goods destined for consumption by the masses. The result is a tendency towards a continuous improvement in the average standard of living, a progressing enrichment of the many. Capitalism deproletarianizes the 'common man' and elevates him to the rank of a 'bourgeois'.
"On the market of a capitalistic society the common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. Those shops and plants which cater exclusively or predominantly to the wealthier citizens’ demand for re-fined luxuries play merely a subordinate role in the economic setting of the market economy. They never attain the size of big business. Big business always serves—directly or indirectly—the masses." -- Ludwig von Mises, The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, 1956.
"The characteristic feature of modern capitalism is mass production of goods destined for consumption by the masses. The result is a tendency towards a continuous improvement in the average standard of living, a progressing enrichment of the many. Capitalism deproletarianizes the 'common man' and elevates him to the rank of a 'bourgeois'.
"On the market of a capitalistic society the common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. Those shops and plants which cater exclusively or predominantly to the wealthier citizens’ demand for re-fined luxuries play merely a subordinate role in the economic setting of the market economy. They never attain the size of big business. Big business always serves—directly or indirectly—the masses." -- Ludwig von Mises, The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, 1956.
""A man is likely to mind his own business when
it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless
affairs by minding other people’s business.
"This minding of other people’s business expresses itself in gossip, snooping and meddling, and also in feverish interest in communal, national and racial affairs. In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor’s shoulder or fly at his throat."
-- Eric Hoffer, The True Believer, 1951,
"This minding of other people’s business expresses itself in gossip, snooping and meddling, and also in feverish interest in communal, national and racial affairs. In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor’s shoulder or fly at his throat."
-- Eric Hoffer, The True Believer, 1951,
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