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(Presented at the 9th National Congress of BISIG, 24-25 May 2003, Ciudad Christhia, San Mateo, Rizal)
This historical moment is marked by the universalization of capitalism, as depicted in the process of neo-liberal globalization. Capitalism’s logic – of accumulation, commodification, profit-maximization, and competition – has penetrated just about every aspect of human life and nature itself. It is within this orbit of globalizing capitalism that structural changes, as well as structural continuity, in the world in general and in the Philippine society in particular has to be contextualized. The drive for capital accumulation is, of course, not the only process at work but it is hard to make any sense of the changes in the Philippine society without closely examining it. (more…)