Reds Care

Addressing the menace of redscare, redbaiting and red herrings

REDS CARE

This blog is dedicated to all Filipinos who seek progress under a regime of truth, freedom and justice. It is also for those who seek answers to questions about the Philippine progressive movement, its principles, its direction and its prospects as a political force that has persevered in its efforts to empower the Filipino people from the grassroots.

The title plays on the word often used to describe the oftentimes baseless imputations about the progressive movement, or the Left, and the anti-communist and anti-Left ideas that imprison the people's minds for many years now. It is really unfortunate that self-proclaimed pseudo-democrats continue to maliciously pin names on progressives, leftists and communists. Not only does this name-calling show that they intellectual lightweights who cannot stand a decent debate, but also show their contempt and intolerance against so-called subversive ideas and ideologies.

We are a bunch of Filipinos from various walks of life who have dared to speak out in defense of our principles and beliefs. We deem it perfectly legal to be a progressive, leftist, or even communist. We are proud of the libertarian, democratic, anti-colonial and anti-imperialist tradition of the Left. We continue to support the progressive movements, especially led by the workingclass, to whom future leadership of this country and the world belongs.

Those who proclaim the triumph of capitalism and the prevailing system as we know it conveniently forget that the same system, both local and global, has miserably failed to stem the growth of revolutionary and progressive movements. Today, we are being forced to accept the system as the highest level of human development we could possibly achieve. It is a world of poverty and hunger, a world of thievery and plunder, a world of opportunism and exploitation by some of the most recalcitrant and most malignant social forces that only constitute an iota of the world population while the billions of the world's peoples suffer.

We especially dedicate this blog to those who have serious yet sincere doubts or questions about how the Left views the world now and how it seeks to change it alongside and with the people.

Reds - or progressives, leftists, communists - care. We trust that, given a free choice, the people would opt for change and bring genuine progress that so unfortunately the anti-Left forces seek to undermine for their own selfish ends.

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