PHILIPPINE HISTORY MATRIX V.

2 EVERYONE MUST READ THIS ARTICLE FEATURES OF THE NATIONAL NARRATIVE

TIMELINE

Pre-Spanish Spanish Colonial Period Period (15651898) Communa l/ Egalitarian Class System

US Imperialism/Japanese Elite Occupation/WWII Democracy (1898-1946) (1946-1972) Class System Class System

Marcos Dictatorship (1972-1986) Class System

Restoration of Elite Democracy (1986-1992) Class System

Neoliberal Era (1992 to present)

CLASS STRUCTURE ECONOMY

Class System

Subsistence Agricultural Agriculture Surplus

IMPERIALIST INTEREST

Semi-Feudal/ Semi-Colonial Semi-Feudal/ Semi-Feudal/ Semi-Feudal/ Semi-Feudal/ Semi-Colonial Underdevelopment Semi-Colonial Semi-Colonial Semi-Colonial Warm-Body Export Failure of Import-Substitution Underdevelop Underdevelopmen Underdevelopm Business Processes Phase ment t ent Outsourcing Warm-Body Export Warm-Body Warm-Body ExportWarm-Body Neoliberal Economy Export Export Integration of the Cheap source of raw Cheap source of Cheap source of raw Cheap source ofCheap source of raw local materials and ready raw materials and ready raw materials and ready economy to the market for finished goods materials and market for finished materials and ready market for finished goods world ready goods market for finished Military and ideological base economy for market for finished Military and goods in SEA surplus extraction goods ideological Military and Application of Military and base in SEA ideological neoliberal policies through ideological Application of base in SEA IMF-WB base in Asia neoliberal policies Application of War on Terror Application of through IMF-WB neoliberal policies neoliberal policies Against War through IMF-WB through IMF-WB Communism War on Terror War Against Communism

POLITICS

Datu/ Barangay System Code of Kalantiaw

Triumvirate of the Spanish colonial administration, the Friars, and the Principales 1897 Constitution of Biak-na-Bato 1899 Constitution of Malolos (first republican constitution in Asia)

US colonial administration,Introduction Cronyism and American businesses, and of elite Bureaucrat the local elite democracy Capitalism 1935 Constitution thru elections Support of 1943 Japan-sponsored as political America to the Constitution exercise/ Dictatorship AmericanState-sponsored sponsored HRVs administrations Politicization of Anti-insurgency the Military thrust Anti-insurgency Technocracy thrust Technocracy 1973 Constitution

CULTURE

Primitive Feudal Communalis m

Semi-Feudal/Colonial Mentality thru mass education

Semi-Feudal/ Colonial Mentality

Cronyism and Bureaucrat Capitalism Statesponsored HRVs All out War Vigilante Groups Politicization of the Military Anti-insurgency thrust Technocracy 1987 Constitution Semi-Feudal/ Semi-Feudal/ Colonial Mentality Colonial Mentality The Rise of the Middle Class Discourse

Cronyism and Bureaucrat Capitalism Elections and Elite Democracy Narcopolitics State-sponsored HRVs Politicization of the Military Anti-insurgency thrust Technocracy Public-Priivate Partnerships

Semi-Feudal/Colonial Mentality Middle Class Discourse Mass Media and Politics Postmodernism Individualism Consumerism

THEMES IN THE NATIONAL NARRATIVE BETRAYAL Cooptation of local elite New partnerships of Squashing thru private property surplus of the armed extraction of local elitepeasant revolts with new colonizers

Declaration of Martial Law Edsa Uprising Series of Coup detat Massive Corruption in Govt.

CARP Mendiola Massacre Massive Corruption in Govt.

Split in the Left Edsa Dos Edsa Tres Hello Garci/NBN-ZTE Massive Corruption in Govt. Hacienda Luisita Massacre

COURAGE

Lapu-Lapu 200 plus local uprisings formation of a national revolutionary consciousness Katipunan

Long armed resistance Continuing versus the Americans armed peasant Continuing nationalist uprisings fervor Establishment Establishment of PKP of the CPP/ Establishment of NPA HUKBALAHAP First Quarter Storm

Revolution in the Countryside Edsa People Power Establishment of the Armed Moro Struggle

Continuing Revolution in the Countryside 1991 Rejection of the US Bases Treaty

Continuing Revolution in the Countryside Entry of the Left in the Parliamentary Struggle