Marcos Flashcards
Had immediately been erected to protect domestic industry
High tariffs
Had inherent limitations as a development strategy
Import substitution industrialization
Depended on imported capital inputs for which entrepreneurs had enjoyed privileged access to dollars,this had encouraged capital intensive rather than labor intensive production
Early-stage industrialization
ISI promoted ____ which had limited domestic market
Light industry
Had run its own course as a source of employment growth and stimulus to economic development.
Import substitution
Ferdinand Marcos defeat of Macapagal was accomplished by the usual pattern of
Elite interdependence
Promised that this nation can be great again
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Corruption of Macapagal and Garcia presidencies has nurtured
Public cynicism
Marcos switched from Liberal to ___ justifying his turn against erstwhile ally Macapagal by a commitment to fight corruption and reform the bankrupt political system.
Nacionalista party
Split the Nacionalistas to run against Sergio Osmena as a Liberal in 1946
Manuel Roxas
Also switched parties to run against Elpidio Quirino
Ramon Magsaysay
Was dominated by liberals
Congress
It took Marcos 2 years to gain a majority despite his skill as a
Backroom dealer
Three instruments at Marcos disposal were
- Public spending
- Executive agencies staffed with “apolitical” technocrats
- Use of the army to implement development programs
The rural strategy received a big boost when high yielding rice varieties were introduced by the
International Rice Research Institute at the UP
Marcos upgraded education with the construction of __ , prefab buildings signed for public elementary and secondary education.
Marcos schoolhouses
To lessen dependence on agricultural exports, Marcos pushed the___. This legislation encourage investors of foreign capital to participate in domestic industrial development and to use the country as a base for export production.
1967 Investment Incentives Act
Marcos revived Macapagal’s __ PIA
Program Implementation Agency
Marcos drew an economic aid to reactivate Magsaysay’s __PACD
Presidential Assistant for Community Development
Economists, lawyers, finance and management specialist and engineers
Technocrats
Marcos deployed __ in development projects particularly in areas where civilian agencies lacked the resources to undertake projects themselves.
Armed Forces of the Philippines
regarded AFP as a close and permanent partner in the pursuit of development and declared that it’s manpower, material and equipment resources plus it’s organizational cohesiveness should be exploited to the maximum considering that the problem besetting the country is socioeconomic rather than military and that the resources available to solve this problem are scarce and limited.
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Two further advantage of Marcos
- Green Revolution
- Anti Marcos was not yet mobilised in large numbers
Helped the country attain rice self sufficiency in 1968
Green Revolution
Did not address the basic need to increase the ratio of income tax to general tax revenue
Omnibus tax
Contributed up to three quarters of tax revenues
Indirect taxation
Left Philippine state with insufficient resources to pursue it’s development projects
- Distorted tax structure
- Poor collection efforts
- Loss of funds to corruption
Spiked in May 1967 when the military shot and killed members of a millenarian group marching to Malacañang Palace to demand “true justice” , true equality and true freedom for the country
Public antipathy
A historian that explained that the election was decided by the question of greater and lesser power. Millions was disbursed for billboards and outdoor propaganda materials, print publicity, campaign gifts and the virtual monopoly of radio and television time
Resil Mojares
Filed with the Presidential Election Tribunal charged maximum use of Marcos of the power of his office through organized terrorism, massive vote buying and rampant fraud.
Sergio Osmena Jr.
A sense of unease spread in urban areas of as the middle class feared a
Economic tailspin
It was only in the 1960s that the issue of ___within the church was finally addressed in conjunction with the call of Rome’s Vatican II council to indeginize the postcolonial churches
Filipinization
Young priests, nuns and lay members become directly involved with peasants and workers through the Church sponsored __
Federation for Free Farmers and the National Social Action Secretariats
Renewed organizing for parliamentary struggle
Partido Komunista Ng Pilipinas (PKP)
Recruited students at UP and the Lyceum in Manila who were already attracted to Marxism
PKP
Became the most vocal and dynamic of the PKP’s new front organizations
Jose Maria Sison’s Kabataang Makabayan (KM, Nationalist Youth)
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Mao Tse-Tung
Wrote a critical evaluation of PKP history in which he indicted the older generation for having destroyed the party. This led to the young comrades expulsion and their re-establishment of the party in 1968 as the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP)
Sison
The youth faces two basic problems according to Sison. These two are the principal causes of poverty, unemployment, inadequate education, I’ll health, crime and immorality which afflict the entire nation and the youth.
U.S. Imperialism and feudalism
Exemplified by land tenancy, social injustice,the too wide gap between the poor and the rich
Feudalism
The use of armed might to suppress civil liberties
Fascism
Continued existence of US bases in the Philippines
Imperialism
Sison teamed up with a dissatisfied young Huk commander ___ through mediation of anto-marcos politicians Senator Benigno Aquino Jr. And Congressman Jose Yap. Their meeting led to the formation in 1969 of the New People’s Army which began to receive young urban recruits ready to go to the mountains.
Bernabe Buscayno
Symbolize the death of democracy
Effigy of a coffin
Police and presidential security forces responded by beating students with
Truncheons
Days of violence and inaugurated a year of pitched street battles
First Quarter Storm of 1970
Swelled the ranks of the radicals and along with Mao’s call for revolution among youth worldwide turned CPP cadres and their supporters into romantic heroes
FQS
Got a great boost when Marcos discarded allies notably the Lopez and Laurel families, sensing that he was faltering announced their sympathy with the revolution and opened their media outlets to student radicals
Radical propaganda
Filipino landlords
Feudalism
Use of public agencies for the accumulation of private wealth
Bureaucrat capitalism
Makibaka wag matakot
Dare to struggle
Most famous bridge in modern history
Mendiola bridge
Marcos declared a state of emergency on the basis of a rightist-leftist plot to overthrow the government
September 23,1972
New York times called him the symbol and the person of strength in a nation of uncertainty
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The greatest dominance of state over society the Philippines has seen endured until 1986
Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship
Devastated Marcos opponents
Declaration of martial law
What enabled Marcos to consolidate swiftly
- Popular acquiesce
- Unified military
- American consent
In January 1973, Marcos staged ___to approve the new constitution
National referendum
1973 constitution called for a ____to be popularly elected and a president and a prime minister to be elected by the assembly
Single-chamber National assembly
Symbolic head of the state
President