00000cab a22000003a 4500 UP-1685675941123976177 Buklod 20231008011924.0 a r |||| u| ta 210422s xx d | ||r ||||| || UPVTC eng Aguilar, Filomeno V., Jr. author What made the masses revolutionary? ignorance, character and class in Teodoro Agoncillo's The revolt of the masses Filomeno V. Aguilar, Jr. Quezon City Ateneo de Manila University 2020. pp.137-178. "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 consciousness in explaining the explosion in the Katipunan's membership, but throughout the book the dominant characterizaiton of the masses was one of ignorance, gullibility, impulsiveness, irrationality, and treachery. The study explains this contradiction in light of Agoncillo's blending of literature and history, the educated elite's unquestioned assumptions about ignorance, and the ethos of the postwar "proletarian" writer." Philipine revolution. Philippine historiography. Class analysis. Philippine studies : historical and ethnographic viewpoints 68, 2 (Jun2020). FI UPTAC UPTAC Article