Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.
– Karl MarxWILL China invade the Philippines?The question is raised because of the continuously heightening tension between the Chinese and Philippine coast guards in the South China Sea.We refer to Karl Marx's delineation of humanity's social development as a criterion for settling the issue.From Marx's study, human society had progressed, and will progress according to the following stages: primitive communal system; slave system; feudalism; capitalism; socialism; and communism.
Note, from the primeval classless society of the Austronesians, the islands progressed to the slave system brought by the foreign barangay, which with the advent of the Spanish colonization progressed to feudalism which at the time had Spain as the dominant power.Up until feudalism, the Philippines has perfectly conformed to the Marxist mandate of social development.