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Author: ISBN 971-52460-49 Size: 6 in x 9 in Process: Offset Binding: Smythe Perfect Binding No. of Pages: 174, excluding cover Cover Design by Fidel Rillo based on Botong Francisco's "Andres Bonifacio episode" Publisher: Philippine price: Php 250.00 Excerpts from "Two nationalist books" by Elmer A. Ordoñez Nationalism is the basic ideology of Philippine Society and Revolution (PSR) which was first issued in 1970. Early versions (Philippine Crisis) appeared in mimeograph and in the Philippine Collegian and Ateneo’s Guidon in the late sixties (as recalled by Monico Atienza). PSR, which uses the materialist approach in its historical account and Marxist class analysis in its dissection of Philippine society, became the primer of young activists who had also read Sison’s Struggle for National Democracy, Teodoro Agoncillo and Renato Constantino. With these readings they were just a step away from reading the works of Marx, Lenin and Mao. The fifth edition of PSR reproduces the original text with slight revisions for the author and publisher maintain its continuing relevance in a “semi-feudal and semi-colonial” society like ours. As Luis Teodoro quotes, “the more things change, the more they are the same.” The land question, bureaucrat/crony capitalism, and US imperialism (now in the vesture of globalization) remain unresolved. The fifth PSR edition may be compared to the third (1979) and fourth (1996) editions which include two “praxis” documents: Specific Characteristics of People’s War (1973) and Our Urgent Tasks (1976). The fourth edition has excerpts from later writings of Sison. The Bibliographical Dictionary of Marxism (London, 1986) lists Sison as among the most important 200 Marxists since the 1848 Communist Manifesto. Historian Agoncillo in 1985 said that Sison was one of three most influential revolutionary leaders after Andres Bonifacio and Crisanto Evangelista. -- "Two nationalist books" in The Other View by Elmer A. Ordoñez, Manila Times, February 18, 2006
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