"Out of all this bloody confusion, this yawning abyss, there is no help, no escape, no rescue other than socialism. Only the revolution of the world proletariat can bring order into this chaos, can bring work and bread for all, can end the reciprocal slaughter of the peoples, can restore peace, freedom, true culture to this martyred humanity. Down with the wage system! That is the slogan of the hour! Instead of wage labor and class rule there must be collective labor. The means of production must cease to be the monopoly of a single class; they must become the common property of all. No more exploiters and exploited! Planned production and distribution of the product in the common interest. Abolition not only of the contemporary mode of production, mere exploitation and robbery, but equally of contemporary commerce, mere fraud."

— Rosa Luxemburg, " What does the Spartacus League Want? "

I'm a member of Samahan ng Progresibong Kabataan (Federation of Progressive Youth; SPARK), the youth wing of the Laban ng Masa (Mass Struggle; LnM), a socialist coalition in the Philippines. As a non-sectarian Marxist, I am a political activist fighting not only for social change but for the international proletarian social revolution. Recognizing that I am not a worker yet, as a student, our ideals are to take on the intellectual and ideological center of the revolution, whereas the labor leaders take charge in organizing the proletariat.

The ultimate, ideal goal of the revolution is that the proletarian masses, with an unchanging determination, supported by a majority of its own, must be the ones to take charge, as Rosa Luxemburg once said.

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