CPP-NPA Concept and Strategy

One might ask: what does the CPP hope to achieve? The simple, but incomplete, answer is that it advocates for reform through new leadership in government. This answer lacks nuance because the CPP does not claim monopoly on reform and a nation’s greater good. So how does the CPP differ from well-meaning activists who fight for reforms within the bounds of established legal laws?

Victor explained that, like well-meaning activists, the CPP members do want to ease the suffering of their fellow citizens burdened by rising prices of fuel, or the everyday consumers who struggle to stretch their peso every time the prices of basic commodities rise, or the farmers who continue to till their lands without the hope of genuine agrarian reform. But while many good-intentioned activists call for reform through legal means, the CPP’s direction is through the destruction of the status quo through violent means.

“Hindi kami kuntento na manatili ang status quo. Kapag sinabi naming socialism, lahat ng mga lupain, makinarya, pabrika, at industriya ay kokontrolin dapat ng mamamayan sa pamamagitan ng kanyang gobyerno at hindi ‘yan mangyayari kung ang gobyerno ay hindi mo papalitan. Doon nag-iiba sa perspective [We are not content with maintaining the status quo. Under socialism, all land, machinery, factors of production should be controlled by the masses through the government, and that will not happen if you don’t change the government. That’s where our perspective differs],” Victor said.

In short, communists don’t just want reform – they want to overthrow the government and replace it with an entirely different system.

--THE WARS WITHIN (2020 / Copy&Share)