Andres Bonifacio's social background was described as thus; that his father was a tailor, and a petty Spanish

official. A teniente mayor in Tondo. While his mother was a Spanish-Tagala mestiza who was from a family of modest means, and was employed at a cigarette factory.

Which made Bonifacio's family neither of the the peasant stock nor of the common laborer that did manual labor during that time. Its safe to assume then that Andres Bonifacio's background was of the middle class, perhaps lower middle class, rather than one of the urban poor living in a "shack" as erroneously described by some websites. Their home was the typical wood, bamboo and nipa structure of ordinary Tagalogs.

Andres Bonifacio was not illiterate because he had primary education in Spanish ABCs, first by the Catholic priests for religious rituals, and later, by Guillermo Osmena, (a Cebuano). Bonifacio being fluent in Spanish, translated Rizal's Mi Ultimo Adios to Tagalog. As written he was also an avid reader owning a small library of books.

When Andres Bonifacio was orphaned he was forced to dropped out of school and work for a living to support his siblings. So he became a small time entrepreneur, or in today's parlance, a street vendor, selling paper fans and wooden canes he made with the help of his younger brothers and sisters.

Later on and because he was literate, he was employed as a company storekeeper by Fleming and Company; a business that dealt in articles of trade, such as tar and rattan. He rose to become an agent of that firm in time. For better compensation he moved to another business firm, Fressel and Company, as its clerk and agent.

According to the marxist perspective, as the middle class and the entrepreneurs gradually become destitute, ultimately, because it will not be able to compete with large capitalists and new methods of large scale production. The proletariat then will come out from all social classes of the population. But this is the result of Modern Industry because the proletariat is the end product of the very contradiction found in capitalism:

"Of all the classes that stand face to face with the bourgeoisie today, the proletariat alone is a really revolutionary class. The other classes are decaying and being ruined in the face of large scale industry; the proletariat is its most characteristic product. The intermediate strata, the small industrial, the small merchant, the artisan, the peasant, all these fight against the bourgeoisie, to safeguard their existence

from ruin as intermediate strata. They are therefore not revolutionary, but conservative." (Communist Manifesto 1848, translated from German by H. Draper)

Sources: A. Borrero, Kalayaan Vol 3, 3-1998 Wikipedia, Bonifacio The World of 1898:Spanish-American War, Hispanic Division, Library of Congress Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto, edited by F. Bender DEATH OF BONIFACIO
Aguinaldo believed that Bonifacio's actions were treasonous and a threat to the unity in the revoluttion.He ordered Maj.Lazaro Macapagal and Col Agapito Bonzon to arrest the Bonifacio brothers.After the gunfight with the goverment troops;Bonifacio suffered from a wound in the neck and in his left arm;his brother Procopio hit by rifle butts and Ciriaco was killed. After a short mock trial,Bonifacio and Ciriaco was executed by a squad of soldiers led by Maj.Macapagal in the the mountains of Maragondon .Cavite on May 10,1897. Many katipuneros were discouraged due to Bonifacio's execution and left the fields of battle.Aguinaldo have to make a long march to Biak Na Bato.There he will capitulate with the enemy,order the revolutionists to surrender their arms and with Pesos 200,000.00, he and his selected entourage went to Hong Kong as an exile. Before leaving he branded those who will continue the revolution as "tulisanes"( bandits). Thus when Bonifacio died,the Revolt of the Masses died with him and the next chapter opens:The Revolution of the Ilustrados of 1898.

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