Rescued History: Essays on the New History of the Philippine Revolution

The central drama and Event of Truth of the History of the Filipino People was the same epochal epiphany that gave birth to it as a distinct nation and a people free and glorious in its revolutionary sovereignty crystallized and enacted and enforced as such in and as the Revolutionary Fight to the Death for Freedom. The Filipino nation as the Sovereign Filipino People was born as the Katipunan Revolution, as the Katipunan Revolutionary People. This is why until poet-philosopher and historian Domingo DC de Guzman discovered more than thirty years ago how the truth of, and about, the Katipunan-Philippine Revolution had wholly and entirely been suppressed, perverted and inverted for more than a hundred years now by all the Filipino historians, writers and intellectuals without a single exception, at the behest of the most corrupt ruling class in world history (the only one such to have betrayed and sold a revolution and a people three times to three colonialisms: this is also the monstrous and macabre and malignant reason why the Philippines has now become the world’s most corrupt country—despite and against that fountainhead of everything great, glorious, and true, in the Filipino people, namely the Katipunan Revolution--: it was corrupted and twisted and perverted so by the most corrupt ruling class in the world), there was no such thing as Philippine history . And that is why having unearthed and carved it from out of a mountain of lies and downright inversions across these thirty years, DDC de Guzman can say in glittering poetic and literal truth that he discovered Philippine History, and that he has quite singlehandedly rescued it from that criminal oblivion, and liberated it from that malevolent suppression, of a hundred years and more, and why and how he can declare somewhere in these volumes this new history as his immortal and absolutely unique gift to the Filipino People… Read more