Akbayan and Anakbayan cancelling themselves out

It's like 1993 again, this time, these groups are not engaged in an ideological war---they are now discussing on who deserves the right to run in a parliamentary elections. Before, they used to debate on who holds the right strategy in effecting the downfall of the Philippine Republic. Now, they are debating why the other is not fit to be allowed to run in the 2013 elections.

Anakbayan and Akbayan are throwing mud at each other, like kids. Anakbayan accuses Akbayan of being a political stooge of the Aquino administration, while the latter raised once more the accusation of the former being the legal front of the CPP-NPA-NDF.

True red or pale red--you choose. 

Akbayan's Walden Bello boasts that their organisation is pursuing a progressive kind of politics, meaning, a yellowish form of Socialism while Anakbayan is simply Red. 

Bello's boast is simply an attempt to hide their true colors--these personalities have been coopted by the State already--like the dreaded Kabapi during the time of the Japanese invasion.

Anakbayan, meanwhile is a confused lot. They want a revolution, but is dying to enter the system and dominate politics. For what?

And I am not entirely surprised anymore why a Socialist-inspired revolution would ever succeed in this country---its leaders are no more than armchair dreamers, sons and daughters of wealthy landlords and bureaucrat capitalists.

Their own process of transformation---from purely ideological literatis (or textbook revolutionaries) to pure revolutionary (those who underwent proletarization process) has been incomplete.

Truly, these groups are both irrelevant. They have retired themselves from true revolutionary work. They don't want to change the system by uprooting it from the ground. 

The only true revolutionary group that I find worthy of my praise as a true-blue mass-based and pro-people political party is the Partido Lakas ng Masa.