A reply to the question made by a Pilipino right-wing "Skinhead"
By Katleah Iskre Ulrike
"Why the Proletarian Masses and not the entire 'Nation'?" These are the words coming from a foul loudmouth boasting national pride without analysing the entire society in general. In reading that verse, it shows that he didn't understand the society very much-that the majority of its peoples are poor, toiling masses-as 90% of it suffer from unemployment, increase in commodities, low wages and less to no benefits. These people somehow constituted a nation what he himself didn't think of-worse, why should the masses include the exploiters and the lumpenelite in that "nation?" Isn't it stupid to include the exploiters?
Behind those words, I may tell that He may have been full of Nationalistic sentiment, yes, and that sentiment that drives people to unite and agitate against a repressive being, clique, or even mass that made them endure the pain, from 333 years of Spanish colonization, 40 years of American assimilation that until today, its remnants still creeping over the minds of the people. He even told to the readers that "unity" driven by "pride" as a "nation" (that includes exploiters) would create change and instill greatness to a nation that is exploited much by obviously, domestic and foreign oppressors.
One of which examples of his sentiment is this message:
"There is no working class skinhead in our nation who cannot feel the crushing boot of foreign imperialism, which, contrary to the misguided communist belief, is entirely racially motivated."
Yes, that there is no part of the working class who can't feel the crushing boot of foreign imperialism, but racially motivated? What about the domestic conditions, especifically in a semifeudal, semicolonial society? In a society controlled by imperialistic, feudalistic interests lies class not race conflicts-as Marx first said in the Communist Manifesto:
"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.
In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank..."
So, if he spoke of anything is racially motivated, then what is class then? Does he accept indifference of all classes and do similar to Hitler's like "productive capitalism?" Then there is no change being happened.
Since that sentiment motivated by "Nationalism" is not enough to make a world-view to a society that is still, enduring repression-this time from the reactionaries like the landlords, bureaucrat capitalists as well as its foreign overlords who kept on meddling domestic affairs so to speak. Since he speak of unity, what kind of unity does he spoke of? Unity alienating the reaction, as what the toilers think of? Or Submit to the will of the reaction, as what the order insist?
I clearly understood those words out of a person yearning for "National greatness", that instead of class struggle and peoples war, he insist in class collaboration and race war; that instead of gearing towards the future based on realities, a future that is based on the past a la Franco and the pseudo-idealists who uses much of metaphysical sentiment to call for their so-called "struggle."
I even think that since he felt dismay about the proletarians instead of his so-called "Nation", he didn't notice that whose nation is he spoken of? The nation of the toilers or the bourgeoisie? Oh god! That shows how desperate he is and worse? Not noticing that the proletarians are the ones who provide him everything, who created the society out of their scarred bodies, and the ones who deserved the wealth and greatness what the privileged theves carried through.
And that latter is the answer. Personally to say, I admire working-class Skinheads, especially those who carry the red flag and understood the social conditions that only a series of protracted mass actions would solve the problem, in other words: dismantling the order and create a society that is genuinely just, peaceful, prosperous.
