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- Title
Is the Philippines a 'semi-feudal' or a 'backward capitalist' society?: A Review of Recent Data.
- Authors
Docena, Herbert
- Abstract
In previous decades, different Marxist intellectuals examined a common set of indicators and highlighted more or less the same characteristics of Philippine society but proposed very different ways of categorizing it. Since then, new data on these indicators have accumulated--much of it still largely overlooked. Using this evidence, I ask whether those attributes of Philippine society, which led various intellectuals to advance their categorizations have remained unchanged. I show that data on the indicators these scholars cited no longer indicate what they indicated in the past, prompting us to reevaluate the continuing validity of their proposed categorizations. In the closing section, I draw on recent contributions to suggest how we might begin to develop more updated ways of grasping the character of Philippine society.
- Subjects
PHILIPPINES; MARX, Karl, 1818-1883; INTELLECTUALS; FEUDALISM; SCHOLARS
- Publication
Philippine Sociological Review, 2023, Vol 71, p138
- ISSN
0031-7810
- Publication type
Article