Did "mode ofproduction" debate in Philippine CP lead to murder?

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Murder as Politics

After Kintanar, the killings continue - Murder as politics: The 
post-1992 assassination in the Philippines

Pierre Rousset

New murders against Left and popular organizations’ cadres have been 
committed these recent months by the CPP-NPA, the Communist Party of the 
Philippines and its guerrilla force, the New People’s Army. As we 
feared, after Kintanar’s death last January, new killings occurred. It 
is then necessary to analyze the political fabric of the post-1992 CPP's 
assassination policy. This is what I aim at here. I do not intend and I 
am not in a capacity to give a complete picture of the murders committed 
the last ten years. Through various examples, I simply wish to 
illustrate the gravity and the "logic" of what is presently going on.

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From the 1980s to the 1990s. During the 1980s, a growing number of 
issues began to be raised within and around the CPP, questioning the 
validity of the traditional line of the party leadership on nearly all 
matters: theory (e.g. on the "mode of production", supposed to be 
"semi-colonial, semi-feudal" in the Philippines in spite of its 
integration in the capitalist world market), strategy (e.g. more 
concrete conceptions of how various forms of struggles can combine, 
opposed to the idea that armed struggle is always the main form, the 
countryside surrounding the towns), alliance (e.g. the project to make 
of the National Democratic Front -the NDF- a real front, able to 
integrate other political and military forces than the CPP-NPA), 
politics (e.g. the emergence of  a concept of "popular democracy"), mass 
work (e.g. the scope and dynamics of peasant work), and the CPP's very 
fabric (e.g. the hierarchical relationships between the underground and 
the aboveground structures).

full: http://www.spectrezine.org/global/CPP.htm

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