Notices by Abolisyonista (abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist)

Looks like the other copy is going to Cornell University's Philippine collection.

Just picked up the rejected donations of KA POPOY: NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND and then gave a copy to the Third World Studies Center. They seem happy to receive it, said they didn't have a copy before.

Got word from the UP Diliman library system that they are not accepting my donation of two copies of Ka Popoy: Notes from the Underground. I'm not too worried because Third World Studies Center, also in UP Diliman, said they would gladly take a copies.

The term "pseudo-socialists" refers to petty-bourgeois elements in the Philippines who style themselves as "socialists" and call for a "socialist revolution," in an attempt to lead the workers away from the path of the people's democratic revolution. They fail to recognize the prevailing semicolonial and semifeudal conditions in the Philippines which necessitate waging a new democratic revolution as preparation for the socialist revolution.They dissuade workers from forging a class alliance with the peasant masses, through building and leading the revolutionary armed struggle or revolutionary peasant war.

"Gender radicalism," on the other hand, is the term chosen to describe some petty-bourgeois elements who tend to reduce all issues to the question of gender, and raise the gender question and issues as all-encompassing. They relegate the matter of class struggle to the background or as a secondary issues. Some "radicals" dismiss the fact that the Party militantly stands against all forms of gender oppression and patriarchy, as explicity stated in the Party's Program for a People's Democratic Revolution, as approved in the 2016 Congress. They obscure the fact that the Party has been a stalwart and vocal proponent of equal rights for women and the LGBT community, consistently translating this commitment into policy and practice across all its work and that of the national democratic movement. They misconstrue instances of Party policy infringements, the process of enforcing disciplinary measures to correct these violations, combined with the remoulding of individuals as "enabling" or condoning sexual abuse, and then use this misleading narrative as a platform to impugn the Party and the national democratic movement.

The term "NGOism" has long been sufficiently explained in the documents of the 2nd rectification movement. Aspects of "legalism" were presented in the CPP's statement during its 55th anniversary.

In the 2024 55th anniversary statement in an issue of Ang Bayan, the CPP railed against gender radicalism. rinovation or @davaoinshambles@twitter clarified with ka marco on some terms, key of which was opposition to “gender radicalism.” Needless to say, after years of neglect and silence in the party of National Democracy over issues of sexual harassment, rape, abuse, etc., many in the camp of National Democracy are not happy.

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@HeavenlyPossum thank you!

@inquiline thanks!

I passed my comprehensive exams for grad school! 😭

@jake2 it's actually been an amusing waste of time reading about sedevacantists and conclavists. There's even a Filipino antipope.

@notrace @hakan_geijer thanks for explaining

Pope: gays can be priests now.

Me: [evil sicko by the window looking in] yes, yesssssss, get the traditionalists to schism

I didn't watch Conclave (2024) for the memes, but now I wish I did. These conclave memes are pretty fire 🔥

@notrace @hakan_geijer why is it so blurry though? Like it's a series of images instead of a PDF

@hakan_geijer @notrace their version seems be raster images and blurry for some reason?

@ja_herre partially yeah, but also that proletarian rulership is constituted on the basis of abolition of classes and cannot use the same basis of state terror used by previous states, whose character of violence was for the preservation of classes rather the abolition thereof.

@ja_herre yes. The violence of the proletariat is directed either intercommunally or upwards. The violence of the state is directed either downwards or to other states. The terrorism of the state is alien to methodology of the proletariat.

After the alleged CEO assassination, I'm starting to think that state terrorism is alien to the emancipatory violence of the proletariat and can only have a bourgeois character, going back to the French, Russian, and Chinese revolutions.

I just finished writing the last sections of two long-form articles I have been writing for several years! 🥰 One of the article is on bureaucratic realism, something I developed from even before I started organizing, and another on why socialists must be abolitionists. DM me for drafts if you want!

Nice! I just got an email from the Ateneo's Rizal Library that they accepted the bookalike/facsimile of KA POPOY: NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND! Win for libraries and cultural preservation!

The United States is a special kind of place. Enslaved fast food staffers, enslaved forest firefighters. Why is there so much slavery? It's 2025!

Although unfortunately, the Philippines copied the same exceptions for slavery in our own 1987 Constitution.