They have sought not just to win individuals from the Philippine military (such as then Lt. Col. Victor Corpus, who after a stint with the NPA returned to the AFP to become a leading military intelligence official) but to ally with “major groups” in the bourgeois officer corps. The CPP’s guerrillaist politics amount to “armed reformism,” based on the petty-bourgeois peasantry rather than the proletariat and intended to pressure the ruling class.
Hindi lang ito naghahangad na makabig ang mga indibidwal mula sa hanay ng mga militar (tulad ng dating kolonel na Victor Corpus, na matapos ang ilang taon sa NPA ay bumalik sa AFP at naging nangungunang opisyal ng paniniktik militar) subalit makipag-alyado sa mga “nangungunang grupo” sa burgis na corps ng mga opisyal.