Gotta agree, wretchard. In the early to mid 1970s, “Philippine Society and Revolution” was necessary reading for me.

Came to the rather inescapable conclusion that JOMA was out to perpetuate every thing that ailed the Philippines. Perpetuate and escalate in fact. And that he had all this in common with what I mistakenly called hard-core Marxists. I learned what a Leninist was a bit later.

Populists, such as Dante, really would have liked to see corrective actions. And could even be talked into helping undertake them.

The Leninists though were lost causes. Their sole purpose was to live in comfort BECAUSE
they made everybody else miserable.

These principles/insights are as valid today in the USA as they were in the PI back then.