Jose Maria Sison: No Great Man, No Great Communist
It's two years since Jose Maria Sison or Joma Sison croaked. Yes, there's really no reason to call Joma to be a great man or a great Communist. We've had our great founders like Karl Marx though Vladimir Lenin knew economics better. Joseph Stalin, Frederick Engels, and Mao Zedong all contributed to Communism's rise worldwide. However, Joma is a cheap copy of Ho Chi Minh -- a cheap carbon copy! Uncle Ho gave us the Ho Chi Minh School of Thought. Nguyen Duy Cong, one of the many former Secretary-Generals of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) created Doi Moi to sustainably fund the state. The Communist Party of the Philippines ends up as a cheap copy of the CPV. Take note that the CPV's armed wing is called the Vietnam People's Army (VPA). The CPP's armed wing is the New People's Army. Why should Joma be called a great man? Unlike Uncle Ho (the real deal), Joma never knew what it was like to be a true proletariat (Uncle Ho was a cook), never won a single...