Semifeudalism in the Philippines
Channel: Jose Maria Sison
Date: 02/10/2020

The semifeudal mode of production in the Philippines in the Light of International and National Developments in the Past Three Decades.  Paper delivered at the International Webinar co-sponsored by the  Congress of Teachers and Educators for Nationalism and Democracy (CONTEND) and Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP)

By Jose Maria Sison, October 3, 2020


The paper discusses the subject of semifeudalism and focuses on the major role of the peasant masses and agriculture in the Philippine economy and society. The peasant masses are  still the most numerous class in the Philippines and they work on the country’s principal means of production, the more than 13.5 million hectares of agricultural land. They are a decisive factor in the economic development and fundamental social transformation of the Philippines. The main democratic content of the new democratic revolution is the solution of the land problem, the satisfaction of the peasant hunger for land.


It  describes the semifeudal mode of production in the Philippines, the national and international factors that have caused this basic character of the Philippine economy, the crucial importance and consequence of describing this economy and the prospect of changing it through social and economic reforms or the revolutionary overthrow of the ruling system.