Philippine Society and Revolution

Oakland, California: International Association of Filipino Patriots, 1979. Third Edition. Octavo in red wraps; 215 pages, leaves, plates: maps; 22 cm Fine; slight curl to front wrap; faint foxing to textblock else pages clean and crisp; binding tight; leaves clean. Paperback.

Uncommon, espcially in unread condition thus. "Philippine Society and Revolution (translated in Filipino as Lipunan at Rebolusyong Pilipino), first published in 1971, is a book written by Filipino Maoist revolutionary and founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines Jose Maria Sison, under his nom de guerre Amado Guerrero. Regarded as one of the CPP's principal references, PSR has also influenced the Filipino mass movement since its first publication. It applies Maoist analysis to contemporary Filipino society, describing its class structure, its basic problems, and the "class logic of the revolutionary solution — which is the people's democratic revolution." ¶ José María Sison emerged as the principal theorist of the Philippine revolutionary left during the late 1960s, when he shepherded a generational reappraisal of national history, peasant unrest, and postcolonial dependency. Trained in political science and steeped in anti-imperialist literature, he fused Marxist–Leninist–Maoist analysis with a distinctly Filipino historical sensibility, arguing that the country’s entrenched landlordism and external subordination required a radical restructuring rather than incremental reform. Even after his long exile in Europe, Sison remained a touchstone in debates on revolution, nationalism, and the intellectual genealogy of the Philippine left, with “Amado Guerrero” standing as the signature voice of his most influential theoretical period.