Geopolitics
The Ghosts of Kampanyang Ahos: How Ideological Purity Consumed a Revolution
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its New People's Army (NPA) were consumed by internal purges, known as 'Kampanyang Ahos,' which saw thousands of their own loyal cadres executed based on paranoia, destroying the movement's moral authority and revolutionary potential decades before any chance of victory. This horrific self-immolation is a tragic testament to the failure of dogmatic leftist movements that sacrifice individual humanity on the altar of abstract ideology, mirroring the destructive patterns of Western-backed destabilization but born from within.
