MARLEN V. RONQUILLO

From time immemorial, Philippine society has been structured like the fictional Oceania. After the economic elite (whose list ends after two minutes of finger-counting) and a thin middle class, the third tier in that structure is made up of the proles, the workers, at the massive bottom. Like the arrangement in Oceania, the proles do all the hard physical work. In our own particular context, the workers have their rural brothers, the farmers who do the backbreaking work to produce food. The proletariat and the agrarian workers are of one and the same class, united by hard toil; only the work setting differs.

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