10 Punto

 Rizal was a part and product of the propagandist movement and not of the revolutionary movement
 Rizal was an intellectual novelist, a social critic, a believer in the power of the pen over the sword
 Rizal believed in the validity of reasons for revolting against the Spanish colonial and clerico-fascist
systems of his time
 “In no certain terms Rizal placed himself against Bonifacio and those Filipinos who were fighting for
the country’s liberty”
 Rizal was not a reformist obsessed with peaceful change but a genuine revolutionary, even a
supporter of armed struggle as a means for true social change
 Rizal’s reforms were only tactics within the larger and more encompassing strategy of a revolution
 Rizal favored reformism before revolution but nonetheless saw the revolution as a necessary solution
 Rizal believed in fighting for liberty by pen and by sword
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5 Tanong
1. Why did Rizal as a reformist, agreed to colonialism of Spain and only wanted to fix the system
itself and not to eliminate it?
2. Who influenced Rizal to continue being a reformist?

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