The value of Baybayin “ka” in every Filipino

The value of Baybayin “ka” in every Filipino

Every people used to look at the red flag bearing the baybayin symbol "Ka" during mass demonstrations and mobilizations, especially in Manila where discontent is rampant. As we look upon it, especially from a reactionary pont of view, it shows militant leftism, however, their counterparts used it, especially the military, whose logo also carries the "Ka" symbol. Once, I even think that "Ka" represents the nationalism vested upon to the Filipino People sworn to continue the National Democratic revolution what our fallen comrades used to fight for. From the flag used by our late cadre Andres Bonifacio during the first National Democratic revolution to the flag used by the Kabataang Makabayan during 1964 and lastly, the youth group Anakbayan. And thus, unlikely to be used by the reactionaries.

There are so many meanings we used to look at tat baybayin symbol of "Ka". "Ka" at first sinifies "Kalayaan"- freedom. Freedom that every comrade obliged to swear through it. "Ka" represents the Katagalugan, but not just the tagalog peoples in particular through its word "tagalog", but the entire Filipino nation as an entity, an entity consists of our regional brothers like the Cebuanos, Ilokanos, Warays, and even the Moros. "Ka" Signifies "Kasaganaan" and "Kaginhawaan", Abundance and Prosperity that every Filipino may have and share equallyamong Filipinos as well as among nations around the world. And lastly, "Ka" may also stand for "Kamatayan", in a literal meaning: Death, but not just death, but rather as sacrifice of every Filipino to defend the nation and its freedom against domestic and foreign oppressors, whom we described as "Kasamaan" or evils in our country.

Once I even think of "Ka" as a symbol of our heritage, unseen heritage rather, that mainstream Filipinos, especially from the abroad opted to use the sun and stars as a symbol for Filipino entity. As most of the hiphop boys wear shirts bearing that sun and stars symbol in it. As for me, Sun and stars may represent the entire Filipino nation, but with "Ka", it represents the value of freedom, justice, youth, sacrifice, and lastly the entire Filipino nation, not just the Tagalogs whom using "Katagalugan" but also our regional brothers within our sphere-In short: Katagalugan represents the Philippines in general, a nation of regions, united with a common goal and a common purpose. Guided by a main force "Pangunahing puwersa"-the Filipino Masses, primarily the farmers and the workers fighting to dismantle the rotten society concocted by Feudalism, Bureaucrat capitalism, and of course: Imperialism.

Argentines may have carried the sun of liberty, Americans with their bald eagle, Russians may have carried the double headed eagle, Frenchmen may have carried the liberty cap and the Guillotine, Italians their fasces, Mozambicans their AK47, Cubans for graffiti featuring Fidel and Che, but for Filipinos? We have our sun and stars and the baybayin "Ka" as the symbol of our heritage. Every Filipino must keep the value and instill in every heart, as the waging struggle goes on and so are we, like those of our fallen comrades long ago from the first to the current situation.

And how can we defend it? to keep it?
It is not just through enough and just pray, study and work, but through ceaseless service to the people, primarily through propaganda, agitation and of course, activism. "Arouse, Organize, and Mobilize" is one of its solution. Sacrifice is also one of its parts since some may exchange their life for the unfinished struggles what they fought as what the Legionary Grades Oath, by Corneliu Codreanu from Romania said:
"The permanent self-sacrifice, serving the Nation; the elite idea is strongly linked to the sacrifice idea, the poverty idea, the severe living idea; where the self-sacrifice stops, there stops the Legionary elite."
or in our oath of Allegiance:
" I offer my life, dreams, and successes to the Filipino nation."

Therefore, these acts are obliged in keeping the values what the baybayin symbol "Ka" Stood for, and is defending the Filipino from oppression, and building a new nation with a new democracy, a people's nationalism, and aprogressive people'sperspective we have been awaited.

Insurrection of Souls

Insurrection of Souls

In this era where the revolt of the poor remains protracted, more and more people are kept on seeking ideas in changing a rotten society. Some tend to be too individualistic, as what commercials depicting people wearing dog tags and saying "AKO MISMO" with their self statements, speaking of their "bourgeois" individualism and calling people to join for that commercialized cause; while others resorted in calling for a collective unity and one of which is to "smash" the rotten society what the majority originally speaks of, like the past we encounter then.

What is surprising is that in this generation, more and more people are also end up in the "contrary", of joining into the "flows" full of "flaws" that has no definite ends, and instead end up either as slaves or being drowned in that so-called "flow". Well... "Join in the flow" as what people says, especially in socio-cultural affairs.

Somehow everybody are experiencing in this so-called "social volcano." Young and old may likely to share its nausea and anger, and thus likely to turn into an anarchy, in contrast to what Leon Degrelle (a fascist leader) said that "...and so many older men who think like it, who share its nausea and anger have not turned into an anarchy."

However,
Those who ones who joined the flow with indefinite ends are the same people who also engaging in blind rage, the worst? Of smashing anything to pieces without any reason at all. Just because they joined the flow perhaps, not knowing the ideas being vested.

But in general, this modern day era and the intransigence of the new generation will eventually turn into rebels, arsonists and crusaders willing to destroy the old rotten system with all their strength, and never to tolerate much of the concessions that will benefit the ruling class and not of the majority. Unlike those who banner "acts" tuned "laws" that benefit the ruling class instead of the majority despite its popular themes (like CARPER for example). All of their actions carries the ultimate goal: A new society with a classless, egalitarian social order, a seamless system of people's justice, a genuine real fraternity amongst the peoples of the world, specifically the working class. And so is a society no longer based on physical degradation, of hatred and inhumanity, but of frankness, sincerity, of human dignity, profound values and lastly of peace which stems from the mindset of man.

Our century today will be in two basic paths: Be a century of the "soul" or doomed to be turn into ashes after getting burned by eternal oppression and infamy around us. Somehow we will choose the former one and therefore we will try to do it, all of us are engineers of the human spirit, and so we need to do it totally. But in actual, we're in a century doomed to the flames that we need to save ourselves leaving the entire rotten society in the funeral pyre! In short: This is a revolution!

Out of what being seen, being heard, being taught, anything is going mad. This world is going mad, and so is the country; mad with scandals, mad with intrigues, mad with scams, mad with attempts, mad in total criticism, mad in their conditions, anything mad that to the point of getting mad against the heavens where the reaction stays and doused in booze? That's true! In this century where anything is totally based on the backwardness of the society, which is corrupt in its morality, debased in its faith towards the people, puffed up with individualism and commercialism (as what AKO MISMO advocated a "dog tag patriotism"), blind fanaticism and of course, blind pride (through wearing three stars and a sun and not of living patriotism)! Somehow these events and actions we see are trying to corrode the entire nation and its people, despite of its so-called modernity, waiting for the final blow to its untimely "death".

However,
As more and more people are realizing about the plight of the society, of being semi-feudal and semi-colonial; of being enslaved by the imperialists and feudo-capitalist oligarchs, the hour is nearly approaching when all accounts will be virtually settled by the masses, same as more and more of them will rise up to become heroes and saints, and fighting to "save the world" by taking up arms and carrying out the total conquest against the tyranny of the few.