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Recruitment Tactics. Screengrab of a document
recovered from a top ranking CPP-NPA-NDF member who was arrested in 2018. |
Victor believes the government should navigate better the
social media sphere to save young people from getting recruited
into the CPP. The technology, he noted, is highly dynamic and
rapidly changes. But the core strategy remains the same.
“We know the categories for youth and student recruitment.
Our primary targets are potential leaders and scholars because
they are critical thinkers. You could also see and feel a sense
of discipline in them. Lastly, they must be open-minded and
liberal, in that they would easily be drawn to discourse. These
are who we target for our propaganda,” Victor said.
“So again, why does the CPP prioritize for recruitment
talented youths, especially the thinkers, artists, writers, and the
like? Let me paraphrase Mao Tse-tung: ‘To defeat the enemy,
we rely primarily on the people’s army wielding the gun. But
this is not enough, we must also have an army wielding the
pen.’ This is one of the reasons why we prefer to recruit those
who have literary skills, or inclinations to arts. Artists have
very fertile imagination. They almost have solutions to almost
anything. They are also passionate, expressive, and highly
innovative,” he added.
--THE WARS WITHIN (2020 / Copy&Share)
