APOLINARIO MABINI

On Revolution: Revolution is the violent means utilized by a people, in the employment of their right to sovereignty which properly belongs to them, to destroy a duly constituted government, substituting for it another more in consonance 4/23/12 with reason and justice.
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Mabinis Concept of Revolution: Based on Democratic Principles

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A revolution is essentially a movement towards more freedom. The people must employ all its energies in order that a government which impedes its progressive development be destroyed.

Revolution must be a mass movement and that revolutionary government must truly represent the 4/23/12 aspirations of the people.
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Revolution is essentially a movement towards more freedom

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Life and progress are inseparable, for without progress life is paralyzed. The right to life implies the right to progress. A revolution is always just if it tries to destroy a government that is foreign and usurper. Revolution is inevitable or

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Genuine Revolutions
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As spontaneous movements of the people and not as movements initiated by a few. Revolution must be a popular movement. The Philippine Revolution was not the work of a few deluded or ambitious men but of people.

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Social Preservation versus Revolution

Law of Self-preservation- (Instincto de Conservacion) -moderated the impulses of a people by presenting to them the black picture of desolation and misery which violent methods bring about. - Serve to warn the people of the situation in an actual revolution where the movement was dominated by a special class for its own benefits, thus, 4/23/12

Law of Self-preservation
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Aimed at social preservation by presenting to the people the warning that some of the consequences of a revolution endangered society itself. It warned the people about the danger of a special class controlling the revolutionary movement.

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Law of Self-preservation: Another Perspective

The very law that served to ensure of the success of the revolutionary movement by warning the people of the counter-revolutionary forces within it.

The people are led to abandon a movement that not only deviated from its original aims but has also ceased to be a movement of the people for the reason that other 4/23/12

Law of Revolution-Anti Thesis- Law of SelfPreservation

It warned the people as to when the revolutionary movement should be contained or abandoned. Revolution a Popular Movement- the moment the people abandoned the struggle, there was no reason to continue the struggle.

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Internal Revolution a Prerequisite to External Revolution.

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The revolutionists should follow the path of virtue in order that the revolution will succeed. If revolution was a movement for the attainment of freedom and the recovery of natural rights, then it had to adhere to the tenets of natural law.

Revolutionists should not indulge in 4/23/12 excesses and unnecessary

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The Moral Aspect of the Revolution

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Any movement for freedom must be accompanied by virtue. If a revolution is to succeed, its protagonists must be virtuous. Even if a revolution be a spontaneous movement of the people, the leaders could fail them.

Rizals influence on Mabini: adherence to morality in revolution.

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When leaders of the revolution were motivated by personal revenge and personal interests or when the followers were thinking only of personal gains. When the revolution was merely substituting one form of tyranny for another.

Manifestations of the Absence of Morality in Revolution

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Reasons why the Revolution failed:

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The protagonists failed to heed the requirements of natural law. The external aspect of the revolution failed partially on account of the failure of its internal aspect. Leaders of the revolution contributed to its failure. (Aguinaldo had a hand in the deaths of Bonifacio and Antonio Luna). Aguinaldo had too much ambition for

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