What Made the Masses Revolutionary?: Ignorance, Character, and Class in Teodoro Agoncillo’s The Revolt of the Masses

• Main Author: Aguilar, Filomeno V, Jr
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2020
• Subjects: THE MASSES; PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION; HISTORIOGRAPHY; LITERATURE; CLASS ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; Quantitative, Qualitative, Comparative, and Historical Methodologies
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/history-faculty-pubs/33; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1032&context=history-faculty-pubs
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Regarded as a classic in Philippine historiography, Teodoro Agoncillo’s The Revolt of the Masses published in 1956 is examined to understand the author’s explanation of what made “the masses” revolutionary. The study finds a profound incoherence: Agoncillo posited literacy and political consciousnes...