1. Comment on the Carroll and Salazar Papers.
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Fernandez, Jessica C.
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SOCIAL science research ,LAND reform ,EQUALITY ,LECTURES & lecturing ,SOCIAL policy ,SOCIAL history - Abstract
The article comments on papers on national renewal presented by University of the Philippines professor Zeus Salazar and National Secretariat for Social Action research director John J. Carroll as part of the Philippine Sociological Society's "Social Issues '72" public lecture series. The basic issues set forth by the papers are the following. It is held that the existing inequality between the rich and the poor is an obstacle to development. National renewal requires no less than radical changes, apparently the kind which come the day after the revolution. But this may never happen or if it does, it certainly will be long in coming. It will not come as long as one continues holding seminars, discussion sessions, public lecture series, and the like It is highly doubtful that change will ever emerge from the elite sector of society, except as a result of organized pressure from the grassroots, or the masses. The underlying implication here is, bluntly put unless the poor, whose strength lies in their numbers, grab power, they will never have it. Carroll cites the Latin-American experience in land reform.
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- 1972