A GLIMPSE OF THE MARCOS-DUTERTE HOUSE OF HORROR IN THE PHILIPPINES
by E. San Juan, Jr. Philippines Studies Center, Washington DC IN his classic “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,” Karl Marx amends Hegel’s quip on history repeating itself, first as tragedy and then as farce (1986 97). With the former Philippine dictator Marcos’s son in office, will farcical acts be the spectacle for the next…