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Despite the common description of the Philippines as economically stagnant, a new rich class has come to play an influential role in Philippine society. This class is identified as an expanded bourgeoisie & middle class composed of a stratum of professionals, technicians, & managers & an increasingly wealthy working class led by overseas contract workers. The rise of these classes is described in three stages since 1946: a period of electoral democracy ending with the declaration of martial law in 1972; a period of authoritarian rule under the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos; & a period beginning with the overthrow of Marcos & characterized by the restoration of electoral democracy. These stages are discussed less as a simple upward progression of capitalist development than as successive cycle of growth & stagnation as the new classes have competed within & against the system of patrimonial plunder set in place during the Marcos regime. It is suggested that it is unlikely that the patrimonial system will be displaced, but it may be shaped to fit more comfortably the process of capital accumulation & profit seeking. D. M. Smith

Despite its declining regional status there has been an extension of the bourgeoisie and the middle classes in the Philippines since independence. The author outlines and highlights home market industrialization, authoritarian rule, the Aquino era, the expanding bourgeoisie and the politics of the middle class and bourgeoisie in this country. (DÜI-Sen)