The Philippines's New Communists
The Philippines's David A. Rosenberg, in Problems of corn- munism (Sept.-Oct. 1984), Superinten- New Communists dent of Documents, U.S. Government
Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402.
In 1981, President Ferdinand Marcos ended 10 years of martial law in the Philippines. During that decade, argues Rosenberg, a Middlebury College political scientist, Marcos managed through incompetence and bad judgment to rub old scars raw.
Marcos's iron-handed rule (he retains extraordinary powers) has str...