@xssfox okay but like, what if the unions are either yellow unions or not so secretly fronts for armed underground parties that all have beef with another and sometimes have rules on who you can date like the people you date have to be approved by a committee. (some exaggerations but yeah)
this 1988 interview of Alejandro Lichauco that is floating around is frankly muddying the waters on pax silica. you cant establish a teleology of national industrialization bet UK, US, SKor, PH without considering the global economy, esp the global division of labor.
of course PH doesnt have these industries, because its cheaper to import! whatcha gonna do? protectionism? import substitution? expand mining under nat-burgesya? who will suffer high prices or die under this sacrificial management. we are simultaneously not the economy yet are.
In my defense the building was very faux marbelly, almost Roman like the Pantheon, and the ad was like “your final memories begin here” which sounds fine for a columbary but must surely hit different as a strip club. Also it was noon.
Apropos to nothing but George saying the Dornish have “olive skin” was frustrating to me because olives were either green or black in the Philippines. I only saw brown olives quite later. So I thought the Dornish had green or black skin....
the concept of putting measures to unload and delete the code of the website running on the browser if the inspect tool is used—an anti-piracy measure—ON A PIRATE STREAMING SITE. the audacity.
Pax Silica discourse is cursed bc the metabolic necessities of the nation is equated with that of the people under it. Capitalism is both a developmental and immiserating force. This contradictory logic is inherent. To combat the immiseration, you must combat development.
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Political dynasties building greek columns is some real setter vibes. Indigenous bourgeoisies, as part of the global bourgeoisie, ultimately have more in common with their class in other countries. They speak English (sometimes Spanish), go to universities abroad, and may hold other passports. There is no national bourgeoisie. It had been subsumed into the global bourgeoisie or otherwise liquidated into the petty bourgeoisie or otherwise reproletarianized.
This discourse on a mythical inclusive mode of national industrialization is so tiring. Give me one example of industrialization that didn't make use of sacrificial management or patronage.
Y'all can just be honest neo-Proudhonians and I'd respect that.
Pax Silica is against the interests of the Philippines-that-COULD-BE, but is entirely for the interests for the real Philippines-THAT-IS. The conflation of these two interests obscures the interests of the CLASS.
Class interest is projected onto a fictionalized national interest which is then projected into the real national interest. In doing so, obscures and disappears the ultimate interest of the class: the abolition of all classes.
All this discussion on what kind of economic development we need is frankly irrelevant when framed in such terms that calls itself communist. Of course national industrialization would mean general exploitation and dispossession of bodies and land. Have these gentlemen seen national industrialization? What you want is national Proudhonism at best or national Lassalleanism at worst. Either go all in on reviving neo-Proudhonism (full respect to Proudhon and none to Lassalle btw) or actually put forward communist analysis.
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