It supports the aspirations of the middle bourgeoisie for Filipino-owned industrialization. Such aspirations have been undermined and frustrated by a series of US-dictated neocolonial economic policies: the import-substitution reassembly of the 1950s and 1960s and the export-oriented semi-manufacturing which began in the 1970s and expanded under the neoliberal economic policy since the 1980s. Thus, industrial development of the Philippine has been stunted. Large numbers of Filipino professionals, technologists and skilled and workers have been forced to separate from their families and seek jobs abroad. Temporary and Unstable Allies
Ang paghahabol sa "lokalisadong usapang pangkapayapaan" ay ibayong nagpapakita na walang hangad ang rehimeng Aquino na harapin ang mga ugat ng armadong tunggalian na bunsod hindi ng mga lokal na problema kundi bunga ng mga patakaran ng pambansang gubyerno at ng pagpapanatili ng sistemang panlipunan ng Pilipinas na kinatatampukan ng kawalan ng pambansang soberanya, laganap na kawalang-lupa, matinding kawalang-hanapbuhay, mababang sahod, deteryorasyon ng pampublikong kalusugan at edukasyon at malalang pagdarahop at kagutuman.