Red Übermensch

“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.” - Karl Marx

[Red Übermensch @RUbermensch]

Dear students,

We are in a time when the symbolic is oftentimes confused for the real: the ring for love, the price for value, the expression for emotion, the word for truth, the law for the good, and the grade for learning.

#EndTheSem
#MassPromotionNow
#WalangIwanan

[Red Übermensch @RUbermensch]

like a seed with the potential to bloom planted in the most suitable conditions, it knows you have the power to continually overcome yourself to better serve the people.

[Red Übermensch @RUbermensch]

Ka Randy’s dictum “bloom where you are planted” will forever be a humbling reminder that the cause could place you in the most unexpected place, yet it places you there because,

[Red Übermensch @RUbermensch]

For we all must be self-critical.

[Megara @themegaratron]

“They must be modest and prudent and guard against arrogance and impetuosity; they must be imbued with the spirit of self-criticism and have the courage to correct mistakes and shortcomings in their work. —

[Red Übermensch @RUbermensch]

Good luck to your “anti-feudal” advocacies when you cannot even truthfully and academically engage what you deemed as an authoritative professor.

[Red Übermensch @RUbermensch]

What you need, as the example of Mao teaches, is a cultural revolution. Engage, rather than withdraw. Integrate, rather than ostracize. And it requires, again, painstaking and humble work among the masses.

[Red Übermensch @RUbermensch]

You don’t eradicate a (decadent) culture by merely abolishing the institutions that realize such a culture. Such a culture would simply be left floating in the superstructural space and possibly displaced to other material outlets.

[Red Übermensch @RUbermensch]

For them, extending leisure is basically extending what for the privileged is just mere life. The task is not to make everyone happy by providing them work (and being “grateful” for that work) but rather to make work closer to life and leisure by making wages liveable.

[Red Übermensch @RUbermensch]

The question is not whether one is grateful for work or not. It is about who gets to have the privilege of combining work and leisure (or life).

[Red Übermensch @RUbermensch]

Ordinary workers tend to be condemened almost the whole year with routinized and dreadful work. And so a momentary leisure on their part is like an exceptional moment of having to live an authentic life.

[Red Übermensch @RUbermensch]

@KentMike12 Now, will that alliance linger? Since it is relative, it only lasts until GMA is in power, for another form of struggle begins when the a new regime emerges (Mao’s dialectics).

[Red Übermensch @RUbermensch]

@KentMike12 It can be said that Pnoy was an ally relative to struggles, for example, against the regime of GMA. This alliance was purely in the aim of isolating GMA as the most rabid element of the ruling class.

[Red Übermensch @RUbermensch]

@dawnangelixx I may not have the idea on how to “araro” but surely the Lumad children do. This is neither about me nor about adulthood. This is about how the poor collectively struggle to resist the structures that made them poor. Child labor should never be normalized and romanticized. 😁

[Red Übermensch @RUbermensch]

@pgftorres We challenge you Jonel.