Philippine Structural Analysis

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Structural Diagram

An Analysis

1.
How do the laws affect the process of production, ownership of land, factories, etc?

-Majority of the dominant classes are themselves the leader, or if not, closely associated with the leaders of the state since they are the ones who have the capacity to pressure the government through their taxes. The state is very considerate with the dominant class because of the economic sanctions that the dominant class may provide. Because of this, the state leaders, who wanted to please the dominant class, would provide them the laws that would cater their best interest on the process of production, ownership of land and factories.

Case: the land reform program that was instigated by President Aquino was one among the best examples that could demonstrate how the laws affect the process of production, ownership of land and factories. Specifically, the land reform program of the “Hacienda Luisita” in Tarlac created an ironic picture of a law that was geared to distribute lands evenly to the thousands of tenants who, for decades of farming, never had a land to till. Instead, the land reform law was left half made making dominant families to cater the law according to their want shares and interest. In Hacienda Luisita, (the Cojuanco’s family), President Aquino divided the Hacienda Luisita to her own relatives instead of her tenants.

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What laws are made that affect values and their transmission through schools, media?

-The laws that are made to affect values and their transmission through schools, media, etc are products of concerted efforts to condition the individual consciousness to eventually legitimize the laws that were passed in accordance with the interest of the dominant classes.

Case: The congressional commission on education, for example, provided an imperatus for congress to pass RA7722 and RA7796 in 1994 creating the CHED and TESDA. These two commi...