Herbert Docena #WagMabalisaMagOrganisa

[UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies @upcids]

Eduardo C. Tadem traces the history of the Philippine Left’s participation in the national politics—from the colonial years, through the Martial Law era, and culminating in an assessment of the 2022 Election’s outcome.

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[Team Maparoons @maparoons]

2022 PH Election - Quezon

In Quezon Province, Leni won with 52% of the vote, winning 36 out of 41 towns. She attained big win margins in the areas near Bicol (60%, 70%, 80%).

All of the towns that Marcos won were those bordering Laguna & Rizal.

#Halalan2022

[Herbert Docena #WagMabalisaMagOrganisa @DocenaRizal]

Sec Diokno on TV: 'I'm not opposed to wealth tax but oligarchs won't let it pass so not going to waste time on it'. IOW: instead of countering the powerful, he'd just accept status quo and work 'round it. 'Tells us much about how technocrats think and why oligarchs love 'em.

[Herbert Docena #WagMabalisaMagOrganisa @DocenaRizal]

source: Felipe, Jesus, and Leonardo Lanzona. 2006. “Unemployment, Labor Laws, and Economic Policies in the Philippines.” in Labor Markets in Asia: Issues and Perspectives, edited by J. Felipe and R. Hasan. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

[Herbert Docena #WagMabalisaMagOrganisa @DocenaRizal]

Reviewing economic data on the post-Marcos period for a project I'm working on, I am once again struck by these two graphs I first saw years ago (a short thread)

[Herbert Docena #WagMabalisaMagOrganisa @DocenaRizal]

Could this be the reason why so many workers believe the Marcoses' line that their lives did not not improve--and indeed, actually deteriorated--after Marcos was ousted? What/who was responsible for this deterioraton in their welfare?

[Herbert Docena #WagMabalisaMagOrganisa @DocenaRizal]

Though taking off from different perspectives, all these studies remind us that no intellectual is "neutral" and that--so long as society is characterized by inequality-- expertise will always either serve to buttress domination or to empower the resistance.

[Herbert Docena #WagMabalisaMagOrganisa @DocenaRizal]

With neoliberal economists once again being appointed to the most powerful posts in Marcos’ Cabinet (just as in the Aquinos), we’re once again hearing statements urging said economists to just maintain their “autonomy”--as if knowledge were ever separable from power. (a thread)

[Herbert Docena #WagMabalisaMagOrganisa @DocenaRizal]

7) Dezalay & Garth’s Palace Wars: chronicles the role of economists in the restructuring of Lat Am states, touching on how the monetarist economics of Milton Friedman etc emerged out of the rivalry between the emerging elites of the West and the patricianate of the East Coast.

[Herbert Docena #WagMabalisaMagOrganisa @DocenaRizal]

Ghorl, you really think Marcos will appoint a socialist as NEDA secretary if only he knew how to do regression or produce input-output tables? Maybe that’s why you need to study sociology?